Shall we gather at Akademy again this year?

[Scarlett Clark]

On Monday, February 09, 2015 12:01:50 PM Harald Sitter wrote:
> 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:
> >> Akademy 2015 is announced to be taking place in A Coruña, Galicia,
> >> 
> >> Spain from the 25th to 31st July
> >> 
> >> 
> >> 
> >> For more details see the announcement on the dot:
> >> 
> >> 
> >> 
> >> https://dot.kde.org/2015/01/20/akademy-2015-coru%C3%B1a-spain-25-31-july
> >> 
> >> 
> >> 
> >> Friday is the AGM for all e.V. members; that is out for me and some of
> >> 
> >> the rest of you. The weekend (25th & 26th) will be talks.
> >> 
> >> 
> >> 
> >> So we have the possibility of Monday the 27th, Tues. the 28th, or Wed.
> >> 
> >> 29th. It seems that most people leave by Wed. night or Thur., sadly.
> >> 
> >> There has been no announcement of which day will be the trip; shall we
> >> 
> >> wait until that is decided?
> >> 
> >> 
> >> 
> >> Are there any subjects we must discuss, and folks we want to be sure
> >> 
> >> are there for those discussions? It seems to me that having Pino and
> >> 
> >> Sune with us last year was excellent.
> >> 
> >> 
> >> 
> >> Valorie
> > 
> > Hello,
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > I want to participate this year. It's my first Akademy, so I have some
> > questions:
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 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) ;)

I would like to get together about things I can do with build.kde.org to make 
your lives easier.
Scarlett

> 
> HS
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