Docs Hackfest

Norwich (UK), 2014-01-26 to 2014-01-30

Norwich is pronounced "nor-idge" (the sort of idge that one gets out of porridge).

Primary contact: EkaterinaGerasimova
Secondary contact: DavidKing

Relevant GNOME team

Norwich-UK-map_cc-by-sa-3-0_nilfanion-renly.png DocumentationProject

Description

Documentation sprint for 3.12

Agenda, goals

Timeline

  • 24th-26th: attendees arriving
  • 26th (Chez KatDave): review the state of the help as it is right now at, close bugs,

  • 27th-30th (D'Arcy Thompson Room, School of Computing Sciences, UEA): work through updating help

Current sponsors

The venue for days 2-5 will be provided by the UEA School of Computing Sciences. Please credit them in blogposts using text and a link to their website as we are not allowed to use the UEA logo.

Attendees

Name

Travel sponsorship?

Accommodation

Arrival time

Departure time

Confirmed

DavidKing

0

-

-

-

Y

EkaterinaGerasimova

0

-

-

-

Y

JulitaInca

0

Chez KatDave (upstairs)

LHR 24ENE 11:05 - NRW 24ENE 18:22

2014-01-31

Y

AndreKlapper

0

KatDave (sofabed in lounge)

2014-01-25 11:35 (STN)

2014-01-28 17:15 (STN)

Y

RyanLortie

0

2014-01-26 09:35 AC 860 (LHR)

through the Chunnel

Y

BaptisteMilleMathias

£100 ($165)

Chez KatDave (upstairs)

2014-01-24 17:29 (train station)

2014-01-31

Y

FredericPeters

62€ + £11 ($105)

2014-01-25 (19:27) (train station)

2014-01-31

Y

MichaelHill

$1000

Chez KatDave (upstairs)

2014-01-25 9:10 AM (NWI on KLM 1505)

2014-02-04 9:45 AM (NWI on KLM1506)

Y

PetrKovar

BRQ->STN: 35EUR + £27.40 ($94)

2014-01-26 01:25 AM (NWI bus station)

2014-01-31 (FOSDEM)

Y

ShaunMcCance

$1215.20

Pine Lodge

2014-01-27 9:10 AM (NWI on DL 9345)

2014-01-31 9:45 AM (NWI)

Y

PhilBull

0

2014-01-26

2014-01-31

Y

Martin Packman

-

-

-

-

Y

AllanDay

0

Broadview Lodge

2014-01-27 (around 12:00)

2014-01-29 (around 16:00)

Y

Gavin Panella

0

-

Y

ZeeshanAli

0

NA

2014-01-31 (Around 11:30)

2014-01-31 (19:00)

Y

Regrets/remote participation

Name

Comments

Jim Campbell

Work will have me busy through March, but I should be able to take at least one day off to participate remotely

Mario Lamas

Participating remotely

Shobha Tyagi

Aruna Sankaranarayanan

Sindhu S

How to get there

From Europe

  • Fly to STN with Ryanair/EasyJet, then take the train or bus to Norwich or UEA
  • Fly to NWI from Amsterdam, then take a pre-booked taxi
  • Take the Eurostar to London, then take a train to Norwich

From faraway places

  • Fly to LHR or LGW, then take the tube across London, then train (or bus) to Norwich (or UEA)
  • Fly to LHR or LGW, then take the bus to Norwich or UEA
  • Fly to NWI, then take a pre-booked taxi

How to leave

FOSDEM will be taking place on 2014-02-01 and 2014-02-02, it is rather easy to get to Brussels by train or car.

Kat and Dave are planning to drive from Norwich to Brussels on the morning of the 31st January and back on the 3rd of February. If you want to join them (up to 5 people are welcome to join us), add yourself below:

Accommodation and food

£74 per night for a double room or £60 per night for a single room at Broad View Lodge.

Previous discussions, organization threads, drafts, relevant links, ''etc''.

Reports

Here we will link all the blog posts published during or after the hackfest, including information about the work done.

Hackfests/WinterDocs2014 (last edited 2014-02-07 14:59:30 by MichaelHill)