The hotel does have a meeting space if you wanted to come in a day early or stay a day late to hold this on your own. David Schuster is not responsible for setting this up - sorry - too much going on with a USER conference. I would love to attend though if I may. This happened quickly - on the Development IRC one day…

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NZ is GMT + 13, Western Europe is GMT or close to it, so either 8am GMT or 8pm GMT are good times that work or both. Would either of those work for the US?

AUS - Sydney: is GMT + 11, so 6am GMT or 6PM GMT (2 hours behind NZ) is OK for us. Irma

Plano TX - GMT -6:00 - 8 GMT is 2 am Plano, 8 PM would be 2 pm Plano, so I would prefer the 8 pm GMT personally.(David)

France is GMT+1 (in winter, GMT+2 in summer)

If we are having a developers meeting after, this would be good to be aimed at Users and prospective user - Chris

Some Ideas for sessions

• History of Koha, covering things like why Koha was written, why is it called Koha, how it got from Horowhenua NZ, to Plano Texas USA etc
• The Usual demo's of Koha, would be good if we could persuade some users to do this :)
• Biblios (id love to see a talk/demo maybe a workshop on this)

1 vote for after Chris

1 vote for Before hdl. Reason : many Biblibrers will come to Code4Lib this year, and making two trips to USA for so many ppl would be very expensive and problematic for us in terms of service for our customers + would indulge jet lags only for the three days so that it would not be that effective + in our opinion, late April for developers may be a little late.

Isnt code4lib in February, I think the idea is to have the developer conference right after, (like Kohacon in france) or right before (which would potentially overlap with easter) That was i voted for after, I might right after the conference. So developers could go to both. Are people thinking a totally separate developers conference? Chris

1 vote for after Galen

I vote 3 days Chris

3 to 5 days hdl

3 days minimum paul

3 days Galen

Id like it to run like a bar camp, with the first few hours of the first day being introductions and a brainstorming session to decide what we want to accomplish in the rest of the time. It may be that we split into teams to work/talk about things, or we run just one stream. Im thinking much like how software freedom day is run. The reason I think three days, is it gives us time to do some social interaction too, which I think is super important for a well functioning community. We could maybe have talks/discussions running as one stream, and a hackfest running as the other, and people can float between as they feel the desire. Chris

Improving tests ? Configuration and settings : should we and how to get the database produce configuration files for zebra and pazpar2 ? Refactoring Holdings ? Crosswalks ? better language handling (for cataloguing frameworks) ? mod_perl and Memcached ? Getting Items out of biblios ? Designing new features ? DLF-Internet Engineering Task Force Compliance. Koha as web service provider ? In my opinion, we should have defined goals and little groups working on a central repository with special branches hdl

I think somewhere with caffeine and internet :) I can pretty much survive with just that :) In all seriousness, close to places to get food would be good too. Chris

Good Question. Hotel or University if we are more than 20. Less, maybe we can get to one place with caffeine, (healthy) food and internet hdl

The meeting room at the local Holiday Inn - BibLibre and LibLime will pay for the room. Galen