[jdev] Worldwide event for the 10th birthday of XMPP

[Matthew Wild]

On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 3:49 PM, Peter Saint-Andre <stpeter at stpeter.im> wrote:
> Do we need to have one IRL meeting in one place? Jabber is an Internet
> protocol, why not have an online event? I like Jack's idea of an "open
> day" or "open week" à la Ubuntu Open Week.
>
> Perhaps a groupchat would be helpful to discuss?
>

+1 for the groupchat.

My experience is that it's quite hard to organise IRL meetups for
online communities. Especially one as global as ours. Only a small
portion of us would be able to get to such an event in Paris. On the
other hand more local meetups wouldn't work either, because we'd have
about 1 or 2 people at each one :)

It sounds cynical, but there are larger communities than ours (Linux,
etc.) which struggle in exactly the same way.

For myself (and I'm sure others too), I'm already planning to come to
Brussels in February, just a month later. I'm not quite sure I'd be
able to make one in Paris also. If we focus our efforts on FOSDEM and
the summit, then I think we'll end up getting more out of it.

Who volunteers to bring the birthday cake? :)

Matthew.

PS. Do we have/want an advocacy@ mailing list or something? We have so
many mailing lists, why stop now? :)

> Florian Jensen wrote:
>> I think we should move all event discussion to another mailinglist /
>> board, so that we can get started on the planning of these events.
>>
>> That way, everone can participate who would want.
>>
>> Florian Jensen
>>
>> On 17 Nov 2008, at 12:56, Jehan wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Florian Jensen;5030 Wrote:
>>>> I would love to do something.
>>>>
>>>> I'll be in Brussels over Christmas (including 4th Jan.) and I would
>>>> be
>>>>
>>>> happy to join you guys in Paris.
>>>> If there's a market for an event in Brussels, I'll be glad to help.
>>>>
>>>> But personally I think we should have 1 event for Europe. Otherwise
>>>> it
>>>>
>>>> gets too spread. And Paris sounds nice.
>>>>
>>>> Greets,
>>>>
>>>> Florian Jensen
>>>>
>>> I personnaly quite agree. I think this would not be as efficient to
>>> have many small event that a big event (or 3/4 because world is big,
>>> like in USA, Asia, or even eastern Europ, etc.).
>>> But if people want to organize one event in their own place, I won't
>>> stop them of course. ;-)
>>>
>>> Anyway if you want to come help us in Paris, this is great. And as a
>>> big XMPP user in the professional world, a speech from you can be
>>> great
>>> too.
>>>
>>> Jehan
>>>
>>>
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