Talk:Maemo Summit 2009

2009-02-11T12:38:33Z

195.161.50.68: /* Portland (Oregon, USA) */

== Location Proposals ==

=== Asturias (Spain) ===
by [[user:jsmanrique|jsmanrique]]
What about [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gij%C3%B3n Gijon] or [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oviedo Oviedo] in Spain?

Ok, ok, perhaps they are not the biggest cities in Spain, but the regional opensource community/LUG ([http://www.asturlinux.org AsturLiNUX]) is celebrating its 10th years and they would help on everything. Since 2000 we have been spreading opensource in embedded devices, and lately Maemo. We have also created a
community about "open mobile" ([http://omag.es/ OMAG]), and we are working on a Spanish Gnome meeting (with some talks dedicated to Maemo too). So, I think that Maemo Summit would be a "great end" for 2009.

Despite that, there are other organizations (public and private) interested on managing and supporting an event like this. Places:
* [http://www.desdeasturias.com/laboral/ Laboral]
* [http://www.palaciocongresos-oviedo.com Congress Palace]

=== Amsterdam (Netherlands) ===

'''OSiM World''' will be organized in '''Amsterdam''' between '''15th''' and '''18th''' '''september'''.
--[[User:andy80|Andrea Grandi]] 10:19, 11 February 2009 (UTC)

=== Portland (Oregon, USA) ===

'''LinuxCon''' is in '''Portland''', Oregon, from '''Sept''' '''21st''' to '''Sept''' '''23th'''.
: I don't think we are prepared for organizing an event in the USA this year having the key contributors (many of them in Europe, including the huge majority of the Maemo SW team). Specially difficult in these times of budget ''optimizations''.--[[User:qgil|qgil]] 07:44, 11 February 2009 (UTC)

Also, expect visa problems for everybody whose country has no visa waiver program with the US.

=== Berlin and c-base again ===
As commented in the maemo-community thread. We would need to look closer at the price of moving away from a co-located event and the risk of not getting enough infrastructure to handle a bigger attendance.--[[User:qgil|qgil]] 07:46, 11 February 2009 (UTC)

If choosing another location we (the community / Nokia) have to pay lots of money to pay the place... well, I agree with C-base too.--[[User:andy80|Andrea Grandi]] 10:20, 11 February 2009 (UTC)

=== Scandinavia ===

This is my suggestion since there are lots of embedded / mobile phone people in the Nordics, what with Ericsson, Nokia, Trolltech, etc.

Extras

2008-07-01T09:47:39Z

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== Using Extras ==

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