Sprints/Promo/2011/Planning

Please add your name and details below if interested in attending the 2011 promo sprint

Name	When not available	Current Location	Travel restrictions
Stuart Jarvis	Jan, much of Feb, March 12-20, April 24-30	UK	None
Oriol Mirosa	March 12-20	US (Wisconsin)	None
Justin Kirby	Feb 15-22 is no good, mostly free otherwise	US (Maryland)	none
Pau Garcia i Quiles	I'll see what I can do	Spain	none
Aaron Seigo	Jan/Feb, probably much of March; middle of May to first week of June	Vancouver until March, then Zurich	None
Carl Symons	March okay if not many days; April	US (Washington)	None
Damnshock	February/March but the first weekend	Barcelona (Spain)	money?
Damien Tardy-Panis	not available until mid March and 22-25 April (and I will probably be free only the weekend)	Amsterdam (from February to August) then ?	depends mainly on the distance
Thomas Thym	May till June would be perfect	St. Gallen, Switzerland	none
Name	Availability	Location	travel restrictions

Venue ideas

If you know somewhere that might be willing to host, please note it here

UK - there are some companies and universities I (Stu) could talk to, but only tentative ideas

Topics

• prepare for desktop summit (this would be insanely valuable on its own as

very little has happened on the KDE side so far)

• finish promo booklet (assuming we can get some of the folks who've been

leading the charge here to come)

• create some wiki pages for important repeatable promo tasks
  • ensure we have an up to date page with boilerplate slides for use at conferences, LUG meetings, etc to introduce people to KDE so people don't have to reinvent the wheel every time
  • a page for all things related to conferences that people might need, like having all source files for flyers, stickers, install media, etc in one spot
  • organize pages for major initiatives like ISMP ("Join the game") and the upcoming corporate sponsorship campaign
• other misc tasks (mailing list cleanup, other wiki organization)
• (pgquiles) get better exposure and more involvement for Windows/Mac efforts. For both users and developers. Non-Linux platforms badly need more developers, and Windows and Mac could bring many new developers in.
• (pgquiles) "Sell" (advertise, not $$$) kdesupport, kdelibs, kdepimlibs and calligralibs (former kofficelibs) to third-parties as just one more module to Qt. Important: commercial support. See my mail to the kde-promo list for more info.
• team building....in other words: meet each other in person, drink beers

(or whatever you prefer), hang out

• pushing KDE EDU (esp. at schools)