This year the German PostNuke association is arranging a meeting which happens in late summer as usual. After Frank Schummertz (landseer) has already organized all four pnMeetings, I have the honour of scheduling the first meeting under the new name. Both users and developers alike are openly invited to become acquainted with each other and exchange experiences about their past and future work with our favourite framework.
This year, the event happens on the 23th and 24th of August, in the picturesque city, Bingen[1, 2] at the gate of UNESCO world cultural heritage "Upper Middle Rhine Valley" [3]. At meeting place, I rented two conjoining rooms in my former university of applied sciences [4] n the district of Buedesheim. These are solely separated by a dividing wall, so that particular topics can also be dealt with simultaneously. For example, it is possible to allow several lectures and discussions for users and developers to take place at the same time. A workshop is in consideration as well, to diversify the agenda.
At this time we are still at the beginning of planning, but will delve into it during the next weeks and give an account of it in regular intervals. We have several ideas, especially due to the large feedback from last year. For instance, we are up to start a shuttle service as designated by multiple people. There will certainly be a supporting programme again - how this will look like and if proportionate costs, in form of a fixed amount, which has to be carried by the participants themselves, will incur thereby is still open though. But we will make an effort to keep this amount as low as possible (less than 25 Euro). It is also not certain yet where and in which form the traditional prelude event on Friday will be.
Since there were already three companions last year, we want to organize a secondary agenda which is going to happen parallel with the primary conference and is being overseen by my girlfriend. However, during the complete supporting programme, for example the dinner on Saturday, both groups will be together.
Many other details like possibilities for arrival as well as accommodations and the program itinerary will be recorded in the Wiki [5] (German only). Also preliminary suggestions for lectures, workshops and discussions can be handled there. In coincidence of The Rhineland Palatinate's State Garden Show [6] happening simultaneously, a shortage at close hotels may arise. We will put several addresses and alternatives into the Wiki this very day. Please take care as soon as possible for corresponding reservations. If there should occur any problems, I am within reach and of help at axel@postnuke.com.
We are looking forward to a large attendance [7].Registrations are without commitment, but exceedingly helpful for our organization, particularly as we must roughly estimate the total amount of persons. Also the information how many people are going to bring along their partners, is very important for the planning. The first meeting which is all about $newname is hopefully going to become an exciting and innovative performance with active participation.
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1. espaan wrote on Mar 31, 2008 at 08:45 PM
Nice, I will certainly try to be there. To support the dutch side of NNing.2. jaenosjelantru wrote on Mar 31, 2008 at 10:47 PM
Any chance of a meeting in America sometime?
3. kaffeeringe.de wrote on Apr 01, 2008 at 01:03 AM
@jaenosjelantru: We would love to see a meeting in America - maybe somewhere near Mateo in ColombiaNo seriously: Everybody is free to organize a meeting independent of the annual meeting in Germany. We are not meeting here because we don't like it somewhere else. But it started out as a barbeque with Frank, Jörg and Andreas who then in the name of the German PostNuke foundation invited everybody else. We even moved the meeting 500km North so it is more in the center of Germany and within equal distance to England, Denmark, the Netherlands, Belgium ASO so that it's as cheat as possible to come for everybody.
But if someone wants to organize a meeting for his city, state or country we are totally okay with it and support it. AFAIK the Danish community had their own meeting and IIRC Jörn also attended that one (I would attend the next if there is one).
Only flights to the US are far more expensive than a train trip to Bingen. And then you still have these strange procedures at your borders - fingerprints, photos, laptop confiscations ASO.
4. aperezm wrote on Apr 02, 2008 at 07:44 PM
It is a good new. I will come again.In Catalonia we are going to do a meeting too. It really consists on two informational sessions about the Intraweb project and about advanced topics of PostNuke. The first one will be on the 16th of April and we have 105 enroled people. This session is entitled Present and future of Intraweb project. The second session will be on the 16th of May, we have around 50 enroled people and it is entitled Advanced aspect of PostNuke. Programming modules and modifying the theme. These sessions are open but it is necessary to make an inscription through the Intraweb website. The two sessions will be in Catalan and are going
to be retransmitted via Internet on life.
5. kaffeeringe.de wrote on Apr 09, 2008 at 11:17 AM
Hi Albert! That sounds great! You should write a brief article about that beforehand so that people speaking Catalan will be able to follow the sessions online. I was tempted to come by - flights cost <20€ but as I don't speak Catalan it will be a bit hard for me to understand.6. kaffeeringe.de wrote on Apr 09, 2008 at 11:18 AM
Please upload the recordings afterward to video.google.com so that everybody can view them7. aperezm wrote on Apr 11, 2008 at 10:52 AM
Hi SteffenIt would be great if you could come but really it is going to be difficult to understand if you don't speak Catalan. Perhaps in the future we are enough famous to do an international meeting. We will try to do a video resume but I can promise because we are very, very, very busy.
If anybody have curiosity can follow the session from this link.