Hi,
tl;dr:
Preliminary plan is to go for a "testdrive" LibreOffice TNG Hackfest on:
- December 9th/10th 2017
- in Hamburg
with a follow-up in spring after FOSDEM -- likely in Italy.
more notes on the topics discussed during the Hackfest TNG call today (not
exactly in chronological order):
- attendance: Eike, Florian, Marina, Osvaldo, Bjoern
- topics to discuss (Bjoern):
- Where? What? When? Who?
- What topics to set for the Hackfest?
- OSX Updater <- suggestion on the Wiki
- very specific (Bjoern)
- Moggi expertise (Eike)
- UI/UX topics maybe, easier to get started (Bjoern)
- but also bikesheds
- and translation relevant
- unlikely to be much of an issue compared to all the other changes we do
(Eike)
- moving Draw towards DTP (Marina)
- was discussed on telegram and elsewhere recently
- multipage textflows etc.
- likely much to broadly scoped for a Hackfest (Bjoern)
- GSOC ideas:
- GSOC ideas to large -- they are already scoped for at leat a few months
of contribution (Eike)
- "Interesting EasyHack":
- https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/EasyHacks/lists/by_Difficulty#More_Interesting_Easy_Hacks
- probably bestfitting scopewise for a start (Eike, Bjoern)
AI: - Preselect a set of topics from the list (Eike, Bjoern)
- When to have the Hackfest? (Bjoern)
- Not before the conference, at least a few weeks of separation from the
conference to not be overlooked => no earlier than late November
- late November is branch off, consultants might be time-constrained due to
other duties
- by calendar week 50, those commitments should have reasonably cooled off
(Eike)
- later is already too close to Christmas (Eike)
=> thus best date is likelt DECEMBER 9TH and 10TH
- should be fixed at the conference
- tight schedule, lets do this event as a "testdrive"
- follow-up Hackfest after FOSDEM, so:
- earliest mid-March
- possibly in connection with DFD (Marina)
- Month of LibreOffice contribution in May again (Osvaldo, Bjoern)
- "Just" November/December and April/May Hackfests would limit us to two per
year, maybe we can try to do more again like we e.g. did around 2014 (Bjoern)
- Where to have the Hackfest? (Bjoern)
- three european local communities showed interest in hosting this: France,
Italy and Germany (Bjoern)
- possible locations in Italy:
- Perugia (Osvaldo)
- remembering travel time was a bit of a obstacle last time (Bjoern)
- travel time not too bad: 2/3h from Rome (Eike)
- not possible in November/December (Osvaldo)
- still a candidate for ~May (Osvaldo)
- Milan (Marina)
- easy to reach (3 airports available)
- city holiday and national holiday on December 7th and 8th => not
possible on 9th/10th
- still a candidate for spring
- possible locations in Germany:
- Hamburg (Bjoern)
- lots of LibreOffice hacker on the ground
- multiple candidates for a venue
- not too nice weatherwise in December (Eike)
- "hacking with Gluehwein" 
(Bjoern)
- Berlin or Essen also possible (Florian)
=> going for Hamburg, most resources on the ground on this short notice
- Italy shortlisted for follow-up Hackfest in ~spring
- Who will attend? Who will do pairprogramming?
AI: - Scout for people willing to learn about LibreOffice code by
pairprogramming esp. in the German community (Eike, Bjoern, Florian)
- Of course, interested members of ALL international communities are invited
- travel and accomodation will be provided as usual
- Next call:
- until further notice assume same place, same time in 14 days
- thus 2017-10-01 14:30UTC/16:30 Berlin time
- call closed at 2017-09-17 15:30 UTC.
@Marina, Osvaldo, Eike, Florian: My notetaking is not the best -- please
correct me or add comments when I made errors or omissions.
Best,
Bjoern
