[NeedForSpeed] Sprint Update

[Steve Holden]

Herewith an update on the sprint. Sixteen days and counting!

IMPORTANT
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Please ensure you have visited the Wiki pages at

   http://wiki.python.org/moin/NeedForSpeed

and at least provided biographical information in the /Participants page.


Organisation
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There is useful information about the sprint goals in the wiki. In order 
to hit the ground running you should decide in advance the areas you are 
most interested in.

The sprint will be run by coaches reporting to me. In the next couple of 
days each goal will be allocated to one of the coaches, whose name will 
appear against it in the Wiki. You should contact the coaches with ideas 
about how to proceed with specific tasks, to get advice about approaches 
or just to register interest. Coaches can summarise on the Wiki as 
necessary.


Funded Items
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My invitation was a little too generous with our sponsor's funds, so I 
must clarify what EWT have agreed to pay for. They are bearing all the 
costs of

     Air fares to and from Keflavik
     Hotel room with daily breakfast
     An honorarium (in the form of a geek gift)

You should therefore be prepared to pay for your own lunches (contrary 
to what I led you to expect) and dinners. If this will cause you serious 
hardship please contact me personally by email and I will see what I can 
do to help.

Please accept my apologies for any false expectations I may have raised. 
I hope you can all agree that we are exceptionally lucky to be receiving 
such generous sponsorship.


Meet and Greet
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There will be a welcome event at CCP's premises on the evening of Sunday 
May 21st. This will allow participants to meet each other and engage in 
informal discussions before the real work starts on Monday morning. The 
exact format is still to be finalised, and I will let you have more 
information soon.


Midweek Dinner
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CCP will host a dinner on Wednesday May 24th at which David Salomon, CEO 
of EWT, will speak on "The Open Source Economy and its Enemies". Further 
details will follow.


Post-Sprint Social
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The sprint proper will end at 5pm on Saturday May 27. It will be 
followed by an "awards" ceremony where the guilty can be punished and 
the successful mercilessly flogged. The evening will end with us all as 
VIP guests of CCP at a well-known Reykjavik club.


In closing this message I just want to say that I am personally indebted 
to David Salomon and EWT for the chance to put this event together. I 
hope that we can be hugely productive and manage to have some fun at the 
same time. I am looking forward to meeting old friends and making new 
ones in Reykjavik, and I hope you all are too.

regards
  Steve
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