Reminder: LilyPond meeting in Waltrop, Germany, 2013-09-20 to 2013-09-24

[David Kastrup]

This is a reminder that next weekend, Sept 20th to 24th, there will be a
LilyPond developer and user meeting in Waltrop, Germany.  After the
first attempt to schedule the meeting in August, we rescheduled in order
to better meet people's calendars.

While the date has basically been met with approval, planning food and
accommodations necessitates actual registrations.

The basic schedule would place most generally interesting issues and
presentations on the weekend itself, leaving Monday/Tuesday for followup
work and discussions, and Friday for developer work/discussions.  That
seems like underrepresenting developer work somewhat, but if last year's
experience is anything to go by, developers can't be kept from their
computers regardless of what discussions are going on anyway.

I'd want to have a basic idea about who and how many are attending by
Monday: after all, German attendants will also need to plan whether they
need to do their Bundestag vote by mail.

So please say when you'll want to attend.  Harm already stated that he'd
be there Saturday/Sunday.

All the best
David

David Kastrup <address@hidden> writes:

> The advantage, of course, is that we'll be closer to 2.18.  A number of
> people have already announced that the date would be manageable for
> them, so chances are quite well that we'll get something done.
>
> Possible topics for discussion, also for coding/testing sessions:
>
> Guilev2
> Markup redesign
> Code quality
> Backend APIs
> Page breaker
> MusicXML discussions
> related: building projects on top of LilyPond,
>          getting music publishers into LilyPond
>
> Reports about the last meeting can be found at
> <URL:http://news.lilynet.net/?The-LilyPond-Report-28>.  Information
> about travel and place (please don't get confused by last year's dates!)
> is still at <URL:http://news.lilynet.net/?LilyPond-meeting-in-Waltrop>,
> in a nutshell: Im Knäppen 63 in 45731 Waltrop, next useful bus station
> "Waltrop Elmenhorst", next useful subway "Brambauer Verkehrshof", next
> large train station "Dortmund Hbf", next large airport Düsseldorf (there
> is some Ryanair airport called "Düsseldorf Weeze" which is actually
> quite far from Düsseldorf).
>
> The date this time around will be September 2013, Friday 20th to Tuesday
> 24th, with the possibility to arrive Thursday 19th late in the day for
> people who'd otherwise miss stuff early Friday.
>
> Camping is definitely possible if you bring your tent/camper, and would
> decrease the density of sleepers in the house.  We managed to find
> places for almost everybody last year, but several will likely have to
> revert to sleeping bags (if available).  The big festivities/fairs will
> be over, so even if you prefer external accommodation, that should not
> be much of a problem.
>
> As mentioned above, most travellers will aim for Dortmund (through bus
> or train) though some international travellers will likely have
> Düsseldorf as their first destination in Germany.
>
> Hope to hear from you soon this time.
>
> All the best!

-- 
David Kastrup