Re: [Exist-open] European eXist Meeting

[James F. <jim...@ru...>]

Adam Retter wrote:

>I would not be able to do February 4th/5th as that is my Birthday ;-)
>
>Cheers Adam
>
>On Mon, 2005-11-14 at 23:11 +0100, Wolfgang Meier wrote:
>  
>
>>>I would be very interested in attending if you think it is suitable.
>>>
>>>I can also offer extensive meeting facilities here at County Hall, large
>>>rooms, projectors, internet access, tea and coffee etc... even a
>>>canteen/bar for lunch.
>>>
>>>We are based in Exeter, Devon, UK and have an airport about 8 miles away
>>>that has flights to most of Europe...
>>>      
>>>
>>Thanks Adam for the offer (and Michael for explaining us the benefits
>>of Exeter, I'm sure the Devon county tourist office will be pleased).
>>In order to make the next step and to decide if Adam should ask his
>>superiors, we should probably try to get a rough estimation of how
>>many people would be interested (or able) to attend the meeting.
>>
>>The original idea was to organize a more or less informal meeting of
>>eXist developers and interested users. In particular, we would like to
>>discuss our future roadmap, priorities, plans and problems. We expect
>>that talking to each other in RL could give the project another boost
>>and would be a source of inspiration. The meeting should thus in no
>>way be limited to an invited circle or developers only.
>>
>>However, we won't need a big meeting room for a smaller group of 5 or
>>6 people and could organize it privately in Frankfurt or Paris (though
>>we would certainly prefer the large group). It would thus be great if
>>you could drop me a short message to express your basic interest, so
>>we can estimate the number of people we have to plan for and discuss
>>how to proceed.
>>
>>Concerning the date, we can't make a final decision without knowing
>>the other factors. We thought about two or three days, either in
>>mid-January or early February. Some of us won't be able to attend the
>>meeting during their day jobs (but maybe that will just be a
>>minority), so a weekend would be good. Dannes and I would like to
>>propose either January 14/15 or February 4/5.
>>    
>>

currently I am helping out in putting on XML Prague 2005 and mentioned
that eXist people were looking to meet up, we are unsure of the
dates...we are thinking April 2006 (puts us before all the other big
conferences)..might be later then you folks would like; in any event I
can provisionally extend facilities and perhaps if anyone of the key
member(s) would like to give a talk about eXist or some aspect. I know
that there would be quite a few developers who are attending who would
enjoy this (including myself).

Its a small and cozy affair (www.xmlprague.cz) set in Prague, which is
also cheap to get to (for speakers we can arrange lodging etc).

if anyone is interested just give me a shout off list.

cheers, Jim Fuller