Next Collaboration Summit - May 4-5 2017, Berlin

[joshgav]

The days together in Austin, both at the conference and in the Summit afterwards, were IMO great at helping us reach consensus on some issues, review current and recent work, and make some short-term plans; not to mention strengthen our personal relationships! 🍻 Although we communicate informally in many ways, I think it may be good for us to hold "official" Collaboration Summits more than once per year. @nodejs/collaborators what do you think?

When and where might we hold the next Collaboration Summit? Perhaps alongside a conference in the spring or summer?

EDIT:
Confirmed! May 4-5 2017, Berlin
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Location: http://co-up.de/ (google maps).

/cc @mikeal @nodejs/tsc

[MylesBorins]

There have been talks about an event in Japan in April. Without going into to many details regarding that event, as it is not yet confirmed, I do think that it would be interesting to offer a summit (and code and learn) in another part of the world

[mcollina]

There are several possible events to be attached on, including jsconfeu in May.

[mikeal]

@mcollina Great Suggestion! I'm going to be there but I just hadn't thought of pairing up with that one yet :)

[bnoordhuis]

jsconf.eu at EUR 700 for a ticket is outrageously expensive, though. Maybe not a big deal for people with corporate sponsorship but for everyone else it's pretty steep.

[mikeal]

@bnoordhuis the summit would be detached from JSConf.eu so people attending the summit wouldn't need a JSConf ticket. The foundation would fit the bill for the venue and catering, we'd just be doing it the same week as JSConf so that people who were already traveling into Berlin for it could easily extend their trip to attend.

[claudiorodriguez]

jsconf.eu sounds extremely convenient, but then again I am based in Europe and was already planning to attend, so I might be a bit biased

[indutny]

How about doing it in Moscow eventually?

[seishun]

Moscow is a suboptimal choice logistically since most collaborators would need a visa to go there.

P.S. Did some calculations. Out of 78 collaborators who have specified their location, 72 would need a visa to Russia, 10 to USA, 9 to Japan and 8 to the Schengen area (assuming they are citizens of the countries they live in, which is wrong in at least one case).

[indutny]

Welcome to my world :) I need to get visa to practically every place except Russia and USA.

[thefourtheye]

Would an exotic country be of good choice? ;) India... Seriously, a code and learn session here would be extremely useful.

[vkurchatkin]

How about doing it in Moscow eventually?

Oh, I'm in! 😀

[benjamingr]

If it's in Berlin I probably wouldn't mind paying for the flight as it's pretty close (~$200) and would love to attend.

[ChALkeR]

I would be glad to attend this meeting (given that it would happen in 2017) =).

[seishun]

@ChALkeR no matter where it's held?

[jbergstroem]

Going to make an effort for this meeting as well. Both Japan and Europe sounds like fun.