Shall we gather at Akademy again this year?

[Harald Sitter]

On Mon, Feb 9, 2015 at 11:33 AM, Ovidiu-Florin BOGDAN
<ovidiu.b13 at gmail.com> wrote:
> În ziua de Lun 09 Feb 2015, la 02:08:15, Valorie Zimmerman a scris:
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>> Akademy 2015 is announced to be taking place in A Coruña, Galicia,
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>> Spain from the 25th to 31st July
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>> For more details see the announcement on the dot:
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>> https://dot.kde.org/2015/01/20/akademy-2015-coru%C3%B1a-spain-25-31-july
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>> Friday is the AGM for all e.V. members; that is out for me and some of
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>> the rest of you. The weekend (25th & 26th) will be talks.
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>> So we have the possibility of Monday the 27th, Tues. the 28th, or Wed.
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>> 29th. It seems that most people leave by Wed. night or Thur., sadly.
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>> There has been no announcement of which day will be the trip; shall we
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>> wait until that is decided?
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>> Are there any subjects we must discuss, and folks we want to be sure
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>> are there for those discussions? It seems to me that having Pino and
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>> Sune with us last year was excellent.
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>> Valorie
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> Hello,
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> I want to participate this year. It's my first Akademy, so I have some
> questions:
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> Will the presentations/talks take place one at a time or several at the same
> time (like FOSDEM)? If the first is the case, I'd like to attend to all of
> them.

There's usually two concurrent tracks of talks. So it's not quite so
much as FOSDEM but one still has to make a tough choice between two
interesting talks at times ;)

> When should I guy the Plane tickets?

If you are certain you'll come the sooner the better I suppose.
Alternatively as soon as either registration opens or travel details
get put on the website (what with getting a recommendation for how to
best get to the venue - what airport and such).

> For what period?

If you want to attend talks arriving sometime on Friday 24th would be good.

> With how much time before the event should I be there? When
> should I leave after the event?

That entirely depends on whether you want to make it a vacation then
you can arrive earlier and/or leave later. Most people usually travel
on the Fridays (except for KDE e.v. members who arrive a day early).

> Should I reserve a Hotel? Do we get accomodation?

This isn't sorted yet I think. The akademy team would usually put up
hotel/hostel/whatever recommendation list up on the website and
possibly even get a special discount going with some place near the
venue. You need to organize/reserve the accommodation yourself though,
so if you want to stay in a special place you can certainly reserve
earlier. I would wait for some official recommendations first.

> Do I have to register somewhere?

Yes. Well, you should otherwise you'll get no name badge ;).
Registration once open will happen on the website. There's an
announcement when that happens I think.

> What sould I bring/pack? (besides the Kubuntu Stickers)

clothes! and a toothbrush!

> Valorie, are you asking when to have Kubuntu related talks at Akademy,
> right?

Since the demise of real life ubuntu developer summits we have started
to have a Kubuntu Day at Akademy where we'd do what we would usually
have done during UDS - discuss Kubuntu matters. Someone could totally
propose a talk about something cool in Kubuntuland though (call for
papers not open yet) ;)

HS