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Thu 30 Jul 2015 10:32AM

diaspora* hackathon at the Mozilla Paris office

F Flaburgan Public Seen by 135

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What

A meetup to hack on diaspora* and discuss about the project and its community

Why

Because to meet and work IRL is so much fun.

Where

The Mozilla Paris office
16 Bis Boulevard Montmartre
75009 Paris, France
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When

From Thursday, the 8th of October 2015, to Sunday, the 11th of October (old pool)

Who

Fla, Augier, Steffen, Lukas, Jason

Please tell us here if you plan to attend.

Hi everybody.

I have a good news, two mozilla employees are okay to help us organize and host a diaspora* event at the mozilla Paris office. We will have a working space with internet connection, and all we need to work.

We talked about a four days event, as people are coming from quite far away the trip has to be worth the cost.

About the accomodation I propose to ask the lovely diaspora* community for places to stay by night (hotels are very expensive in Paris).

If you have any questions, feel free to ask!

LM

Lukas Matt Thu 30 Jul 2015 2:38PM

<3 awesome ! Looking forward to it :)

JR

Jason Robinson Thu 30 Jul 2015 3:19PM

So awesome! <3

Would be nice to lock these dates within a week or two so could buy plane tickets, they get more expensive as time gets closer.. Will defo try to come!

DU

Fri 31 Jul 2015 5:19AM

Would be nice, soon, that every one who thinks he is coming, to tell what kind of electric plug he has so we can buy power adaptater ;)

JB

Joe Bew Fri 31 Jul 2015 8:34AM

@flaburgan This is an awesome idea \o/

This is the kind of event I'm looking for, it is a great initiative and certainly I'll try to be there :)

I agree with @jasonrobinson , we should lock these dates within a week or two.

KS

Kent Shikama Fri 31 Jul 2015 2:47PM

Sounds great! I can't come but I suppose I can join by pushing commits remotely :p

JR

Jason Robinson Sun 2 Aug 2015 5:48PM

So, currently these two are winning:

01/10 -> 04/10
08/10 -> 11/10

I suggest we decide asap, during the coming week?

@flaburgan how many people do we have space to work for?

Also, I suggest we consider doing this "properly" and doing a quick community fund raiser to cover some of the costs for participants. At least for me, I'm looking at €200 minimum on flights (if I buy now) + the need to take time off work. Also, while I'll be totally fine with staying at some persons sofa, it would be so much more convenient for us to just rent a room in a hostel for at least 4 people for example. This would allow maximum flexibility.

The fund raiser could be a low profile campaign just for those that want to support this 4 days of hacking on diaspora. We could even come up with a plan of what to achieve - personally I would like to at least brainstorm of pod migration, if not even work on it if we can agree on a spec.. We could agree that travel and hostel costs would be reimbursed for accepted participants to the hackathon.

Fundraising on Bountysource would be simplest. They take a 10% cut which I think is fair. The other option would be to use Indiegogo, but they take almost 10% for paypal payouts too - at least with bountysource any money that would not be used for costs could be used for bounties without losing the 10%.

Opinions?

JR

Jason Robinson Sun 2 Aug 2015 6:13PM

For example, some cheap private rooms search.

DU

Mon 3 Aug 2015 8:42AM

Outside Paris, there's also a Cerise Hostel in my city. I don't know the prices, but I can make a jump to it and ask for informations if anyone need it.

It's only 48 minutes by public transports from the Mozilla office and I can handle the transports tickets.

As I leave near Paris, please let me know asap where you guys are staying so that I can organize transports for everyone.

JR

Jason Robinson Mon 3 Aug 2015 11:16AM

I doubt Paris is that expensive that we need to commute 2 hours daily? Would be nice to be able to work long days and then go out for drinks etc :) Some of the hostels were like 60-80€ for 4 days which imho is not bad for being close to the mozilla office. Of course, not everyone has to stay at the same place.

@flaburgan do you know how flexible hours we can work, do we have only limited access to the office or can we go 24h?

F

Flaburgan Mon 3 Aug 2015 12:22PM

@Jason not too sure about a fundraising, maybe we can simply use the money we have with the FSSN?

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