Re: Waltrop meeting outline

[David Kastrup]

Rodolfo Zitellini <address@hidden> writes:

> I can confirm I will arrive from Fribourg Friday 24th at 15:21 in
> Dortmund, I still have figure out the time it will take with the U41.

See the previous posting with the travel details.  You'll need a type B
local transport ticket.

> I will leave sometime in the morning of tuesday, as my plane in
> Cologne leaves at 14.44. I will be arriving by train, so if someone is
> based in Swiss or near we can arrange for the trip (or to share a car,
> as David proposed)
> I will bring my sleeping bag, should I bring a sleeping pad too?

Makes things more flexible if it has a reasonable size.

> I would like to be present all day the 24th, but I am not sure I can
> make it the 23th. One topic I think would also be nice to touch is
> promoting LilyPond and how we can valorize all the music that is in
> Mutopia (I saw, for example, that there are much of Bach's organ
> works). Also we can continue to discuss on how to speed up compiling
> music - as this is one of the first things everyone notices ("but it
> takes 40 minutes to create the book!").

People are spoiled rotten.  I've had moderate success promoting
text-critical typesetting taking about that amount of time on an average
computer for a thousand-page book.  The "established" process I had
problems competing with took about 8 weeks of outsourced manual labor
(people working with scissor and paper) per iteration.  With
aesthetically inferior results (admittedly, at the time I did the
presentation it was more of a toss-up).  What are 40 minutes?

> At last, how are we organized for the food? I love cooking, so if
> needed I will gladly give a hand.

There is not much of organization ahead.  I'll start buying basic stuff
soonish.  The basic provisions I'll organize in advance will likely
include substandard amounts of meat as my own expertise dealing with
meat is quite limited.  I expect to haggle out the details as more
people arrive.  It is a reasonable expectation that we'll order out at
some date (Sunday noonish?), barbeque, do pizza (it's rather low effort
to do dough/sauce), have noodles at one point of time.

I'll certainly be glad for people pitching in with cooking/shopping, but
one has to match the taken efforts to the number of eaters, so really
complex food preparation is likely not feasible.

-- 
David Kastrup