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Conference signup time!
The Dreamwidth conference this year will be Open Source Bridge, June 23–26 in Portland, OR. See my previous post for all the reasons you -- yes, you! -- want to attend!
This offer is open to anyone who's submitted 5 or more pull requests (big, small, or anything in between) since 1 January. (See me if you want to talk comparable volunteer work that doesn't go through Github, or if you want to make a case for "I only had one PR but it was a ton of effort".) We will pay for you up front, no "you front the money and we'll reimburse you". This offer includes:
* Your conference admission (which includes lunch)
* Your housing in Portland (either in a hotel room or a rental house, depending on how many people we have -- usually it's been hotel rooms with two double beds, each person getting their own bed but sharing the room with one other person). Housing will be provided for the nights of June 22 through June 26 (so, arrive Monday June 22, depart Saturday, June 27).
* Your airfare, round trip from your home airport to PDX (yes, this includes from outside the US!) If you'd like to extend your stay in Portland past when accomodations will be covered, we can do that: just tell me when you'd like to arrive/depart, and pay the difference in airfare costs if greater than $50.
* At least one group dinner during the trip. (And usually others, on the principle of "whoever's around when the person with the DW credit card is deciding on dinner usually gets invited along", but we usually do one planned "okay, everyone's going to eat here tonight" thing.)
(NB: Generally speaking, we find that on these trips people spend between $200-$300 on other travel costs (meals that aren't covered by DW, tickets for the light rail to/from the airport, etc). If you'd like to come but that cost would be a hardship for you, come talk to me privately.)
This offer will be limited to the first 15 people who sign up.
To sign up, comment here with:
* Links to your qualifying PRs (email me if you want to make a case for comparable volunteer effort/substituting a large PR for small ones)
* The airport you'd like to fly out of, and whether you have an airline preference (ie, I only fly Oneworld carriers because I've got status with them)
* Travel dates, if not "arrive 22 June, depart 27 June"
* Any access needs or accomodations I need to take into account for arranging housing (ie, mine would be "I'm fine in a hotel room but if we rent a house I'd need a ground floor bedroom" -- you don't need to tell me why, just what I need to take into consideration).
If you're uncomfortable with disclosing any of the above publicly, that's totally fine! Just comment here with something along the lines of "I'm taking you up on this and will email privately with my details". (The comment is important to have the list of people all in one place; I am a Bear of Very Little Brain sometimes.)
Using the info provided of your preferred airport to fly out of, I'll find you flights and email you for your approval and to get the TSA-required data for booking (that being the name, date of birth, and gender marker that appears on your approved ID, plus passport number for people coming from outside the US) plus any airline frequent flyer numbers, yadda. Once we've got flights that you're cool with, I'll do the actual booking on your behalf, so you don't have to front the money. (I will book on your preferred carrier whenever possible, and aim for the best combination of price/travel duration/travel times I can find. That sort of thing speaks to my min/max gamer heart.)
The deadline for taking us up on this is June 1. (After that point, we'll still register you for the conference, but you'll have to arrange your own travel and housing.)
This offer is open to anyone who's submitted 5 or more pull requests (big, small, or anything in between) since 1 January. (See me if you want to talk comparable volunteer work that doesn't go through Github, or if you want to make a case for "I only had one PR but it was a ton of effort".) We will pay for you up front, no "you front the money and we'll reimburse you". This offer includes:
* Your conference admission (which includes lunch)
* Your housing in Portland (either in a hotel room or a rental house, depending on how many people we have -- usually it's been hotel rooms with two double beds, each person getting their own bed but sharing the room with one other person). Housing will be provided for the nights of June 22 through June 26 (so, arrive Monday June 22, depart Saturday, June 27).
* Your airfare, round trip from your home airport to PDX (yes, this includes from outside the US!) If you'd like to extend your stay in Portland past when accomodations will be covered, we can do that: just tell me when you'd like to arrive/depart, and pay the difference in airfare costs if greater than $50.
* At least one group dinner during the trip. (And usually others, on the principle of "whoever's around when the person with the DW credit card is deciding on dinner usually gets invited along", but we usually do one planned "okay, everyone's going to eat here tonight" thing.)
(NB: Generally speaking, we find that on these trips people spend between $200-$300 on other travel costs (meals that aren't covered by DW, tickets for the light rail to/from the airport, etc). If you'd like to come but that cost would be a hardship for you, come talk to me privately.)
This offer will be limited to the first 15 people who sign up.
To sign up, comment here with:
* Links to your qualifying PRs (email me if you want to make a case for comparable volunteer effort/substituting a large PR for small ones)
* The airport you'd like to fly out of, and whether you have an airline preference (ie, I only fly Oneworld carriers because I've got status with them)
* Travel dates, if not "arrive 22 June, depart 27 June"
* Any access needs or accomodations I need to take into account for arranging housing (ie, mine would be "I'm fine in a hotel room but if we rent a house I'd need a ground floor bedroom" -- you don't need to tell me why, just what I need to take into consideration).
If you're uncomfortable with disclosing any of the above publicly, that's totally fine! Just comment here with something along the lines of "I'm taking you up on this and will email privately with my details". (The comment is important to have the list of people all in one place; I am a Bear of Very Little Brain sometimes.)
Using the info provided of your preferred airport to fly out of, I'll find you flights and email you for your approval and to get the TSA-required data for booking (that being the name, date of birth, and gender marker that appears on your approved ID, plus passport number for people coming from outside the US) plus any airline frequent flyer numbers, yadda. Once we've got flights that you're cool with, I'll do the actual booking on your behalf, so you don't have to front the money. (I will book on your preferred carrier whenever possible, and aim for the best combination of price/travel duration/travel times I can find. That sort of thing speaks to my min/max gamer heart.)
The deadline for taking us up on this is June 1. (After that point, we'll still register you for the conference, but you'll have to arrange your own travel and housing.)
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If other people departing from similar are in the mood for a road trip, I wonder if renting a nice van for the round trip would be a good idea, for better schlepping around Portland.
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Travel dates are flexible. 22-27 June should be fine, but I will need to double-check that with the new job next week.
I'd prefer not to share a room with people who use perfumes or other heavily-scented things.
ETA: if there is a red-eye on Friday night to Minneapolis, I would gladly take it. Otherwise, I need to be heading home as early as possible on Saturday. Email me for deets.
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I really want to go.
As of this exact moment I don't have code submitted, but will be making Concentrated Effort to get to the requisite number before 1 Jun (thanks again,
By my back-of-a-napkin math, driving myself is like to be cheaper than arranging a plane flight, and I'd like to do the roadtrip (for a variety of reasons). Would a gas-money-reimbursement from DW be plausible? (if not, no biggie, I can swing the extra money, just figure I'd ask.)
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Yes, we'll reimburse for gas money (keep receipts), but not hotel/motel if it takes you more than a day to get there. :)
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(belated realization: no special access needs for me.)
*so excited*
Achievement Get!
https://github.com/dreamwidth/dw-free/pull/1380
https://github.com/dreamwidth/dw-free/pull/1388
https://github.com/dreamwidth/dw-free/pull/1394
https://github.com/dreamwidth/dw-free/pull/1396
And a week early, at that. *joyous dance*
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I need to know your airports, airline prefs, travel dates if not the standard, etc!
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That does not mean you cannot hang out with us while there!
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you can do it! we can be last-minute code buddies together. <3
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I already booked my flight - I'll forward you my email with the details.
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You have 9 PRs since 1 Jan so you are more than qualified! (And it would be great to have you along.)
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https://github.com/dreamwidth/dw-free/pull/1215
https://github.com/dreamwidth/dw-free/pull/1217
https://github.com/dreamwidth/dw-free/pull/1218
https://github.com/dreamwidth/dw-free/pull/1365 once it is merged.
Assuming you count the one I split in two because different kinds of test børk.
Would rather contact you regarding travel details via private methods -- also unsure on travel dates at the moment, I need to check on the status of my vacation and if work is sending me to YAPC.
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No problem contacting me privately!
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https://github.com/dreamwidth/dw-free/pull/1370
https://github.com/dreamwidth/dw-free/pull/1377
https://github.com/dreamwidth/dw-free/pull/1383
https://github.com/dreamwidth/dw-free/pull/1369
....aka styles clean-up, haha
I'd prefer to arrive on the 21st so I have a day to sleep in and get a little less jetlagged, and avoid last year's 'arrive at two am the day the conference starts'. Flying out Charlotte, NC or Tri-Cities (equidistant, basically), can't be early morning because it's a 2h drive to get there flying back would prefer Manchester, Hartford, or Providence but can manage Boston if it's a significant savings.
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RIGHT I WOULD LIKE TO COME PLEASE.
* Any London airport, Heathrow most convenient.
* Travel dates 22nd-27th (outbound flight probably as late a departure as doable because I'm hoping to travel with
* Fine in a hotel room but needs to be no-smoking. If a house, a preference but not a requirement for a ground-floor room.
I am also e-mailing you about requesting that my support work count as one pull req (if I don't get both the outstanding ones done this evening...)
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https://github.com/dreamwidth/dw-free/pull/1401
https://github.com/dreamwidth/dw-free/pull/1403
https://github.com/dreamwidth/dw-free/pull/1409
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I got my pull requests in! Count me as per
kaberett, although I'll need to confirm with work on Monday that I can get the time off.
(Ahaha never having touched the codebase to having a bunch of pull requests in <24 hours. Simple pull requests, but pull requests nonetheless.)
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That is definitely awesome :)
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