- stpeter looks around for Dave and Florian
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stpeter
and Chris
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Kev
I've poked Dave.
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stpeter
Kev: thanks
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stpeter
I don't see Florian online
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Dave Cridland
*sigh*
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Dave Cridland
Sorry, folks, I'm in a world of craziness.
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stpeter
yeah
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Ashley
fwiw, i'll be mulititasking
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stpeter
well, at least you guys are quorate, if bear is paying attention :)
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bear
:)
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stpeter
heh
- stpeter waves to bear
- bear keeps it short:
- bear waves
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bear
i'll be there for krtconf and also before and after
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stpeter
great
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bear
going to combine krtconf with some holiday time
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Kev
It's cunningly timed so I can't be.
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stpeter
cunning, eh?
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Dave Cridland
Kev, It is?
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Kev
Dave Cridland: See the staff calendar.
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Dave Cridland
Kev, Assuming our illustrious CEO hasn't wiped it again. :-)
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Kev
KRT is 24th Oct or so, isn't it?
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stpeter
so the question is, do folks think this is the best time and place to hold a Summit in North America for 2012? I would be sorry not to have Kev there
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stpeter
Kev: KRT is 24+24
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stpeter
er
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stpeter
23 + 24
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stpeter
Summit would be 25
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stpeter
(if we decide that one day is enough)
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Dave Cridland
I think if we want a NA summit (and I think we do) then KRTConf is perfect for it.
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stpeter
Dave Cridland: yes, I think so too
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Ashley
+1
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Kev
In theory it's possible for me to travel on the 24th to get there for the 25. If Isode want to send me.
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stpeter
I will need to figure out the logistics of a place to meet etc., although Adam said he would connect me to the folks at &yet who are working that side of things
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Kev
We had two days for the EU summit - do we imagine we'll have less to discuss in the US (or that the two days for Brussels were overkill)?
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stpeter
and worst comes to worst there's a Cisco office in Portland, although it's somewhat on the edge of town IIRC
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stpeter
Kev: I think that if we were better organized, we could have one full day
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stpeter
I don't think I organized the last Brussels meeting very well
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Kev
ISTR it going pretty well, but OK.
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stpeter
but I was rather busy at the time with IETF madness
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stpeter
another option is to have a Summit on Thursday and then a (smaller?) gathering on Friday
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Dave Cridland
I thought the summit went well, too.
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stpeter
I think we'll get some overflow from KRT into Thursday
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Dave Cridland
I'm happy to do two days, but I'd like to know costs, too.
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stpeter
BTW I will be helping Adam recruit speakers for KRT, and feel free to do some of that yourselves (or volunteer to give a talk): http://blog.krtconf.com/post/24012727201/krtconf-2012-call-for-speakers
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stpeter
in any case, if we think this is a good idea I can post to the website and start organizing the logistics a bit
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Dave Cridland
I think it's a fine idea. If we can get a second day, that seems fine too.
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Dave Cridland
I'd also suggest doing an XSF Dinner in Portland, too.
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Kev
Does Portland do ribs or steak? :)
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Dave Cridland
So, in my view, go ahead and post.
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bear
mozilla has an office (or soon will) in Portland
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Dave Cridland
Kev, There may be Kev-compatible food.
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bear
so we may have more resources than just cisco
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stpeter
bear: good to know!
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stpeter
bear: thanks
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stpeter
kev: I'm sure we can find that, yes
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bear
yes, portland has quite a few meat options to pick from :)
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stpeter
Dave Cridland: yes on dinner, probably Thursday evening
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Dave Cridland
Right - I must dash, really, got to be a Daddy-taxi, so:
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Kev
Then there's just the problem of finding people who speak English...
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stpeter
heehee
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Dave Cridland
I say Peter should go ahead and organize things.
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Dave Cridland
Kev, It's OK, my Spanish is passable.
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Kev
ISTR having a really good burger last time I was in Portland.
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stpeter
as to two days, my concern was not cutting into people's weekends, especially for folks who have a long way to travel
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stpeter
but I'm open to 1 day, 1.5 days, or 2 days
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Dave Cridland
Right, I'm off, sorry - but number of days we can decide based on logistics and cost later.
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stpeter
yes
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stpeter
agreed
- bear nods
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stpeter
so I'll at least start our organizational activities and we can meet again in a few weeks to figure out more details
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bear
lets find out from &yet what the options are and meet again?
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Kev
Thanks.
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stpeter
bear: yes
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bear
coolness - thanks
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stpeter
anything else for today?
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bear
not that I know of
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stpeter
ok
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Ashley
ok
- stpeter logs into WordPress and writes a blog post
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bear
motion to end
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bear
later then
- bear flees
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Ashley
+1
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stpeter
thanks, guys
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Ashley
welcom
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ralphm
bah, missed it
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stpeter
bah!
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Ashley
we're fast!
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stpeter
ralphm: basic idea is to hold the next Summit on the day or two after krtconf http://blog.krtconf.com/post/24012727201/krtconf-2012-call-for-speakers
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ralphm
ok
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ralphm
so for next FOSDEM we had decided to do the two days ahead of FOSDEM
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ralphm
not sure if we would need to do the same here
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stpeter
ralphm: &yet is holding a redis conference on the day before krtconf, so the day or two after krtconf makes more sense this time
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ralphm
right
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ralphm
ok
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ralphm
I think it's a great idea anyway
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stpeter
cool
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stpeter
BTW, Adam said that krtconf will be capped at ~200 people
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stpeter
so if you want to be there, you'll want to pay attention and sign up early
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ralphm
I put in my e-mail address
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stpeter
yay for email ;-)
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stpeter
http://xmpp.org/2012/06/xmpp-summit/
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Kev
Thanks Peter.
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stpeter
sure thing
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stpeter
sorry about the American spellings ;-)
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Kev
Forgiven.
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stpeter
Kev: if needed, we can set up live translation between English and American at the meeting ;-)
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Kev
OK.
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Kev
Assuming someone wants to send me there :)
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stpeter
assuming, yes
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Kev
12000 miles for one day of conference seems a little excessive.
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stpeter
yeah
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stpeter
I'm not wedded to one day
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stpeter
I just want to make sure the time is productive
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stpeter
although the conversations at the last few Summits have been interesting, I don't feel that we've followed up as needed to make those ideas a reality
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Kev
I think there might be value in doing two days - one as a day of internal presentations, and one as a discussion day.
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stpeter
Kev: quite possibly, yes
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stpeter
I should have more time to organize the event this time, if we want it to be more organized ;-)
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Kev
As there are people doing interesting non-OSS stuff with XMPP that I'd like to hear talks by, and isn't really FOSDEM compatible (I'm thinking of Echobit in particular).
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stpeter
we could also possibly have tracks or breakouts -- e.g., I know a fair number of people doing Internet of Things / machine-to-machine stuff with XMPP these days
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Kev
Perhaps we could work on the theory that there will be talks, and there will be discussions, and ask what topics and what talks people would like.
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Kev
Then we can decide to have an IoT track as appropriate.
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stpeter
indeed
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stpeter
and I always believe that cross-pollination is a good idea
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Kev
I'd like the IoT guys to give an IoT 101, personally.
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stpeter
true