[Ctk-developers] CTK Hackfest in Europe: INRIA's proposal

[Steve Pieper]

Hi Benoit - I'd love to attend such an event!

This is the right list for any discussion - so far ctk has been a hackers
organization, so the developers list is where all the action is :)

Your timing makes sense.  If we need an event sooner, we could consider
another US event in summertime.

Anyone else have thoughts or suggestions?

-Steve



On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 4:53 AM, Benoit Bleuze <benoit.bleuze at inria.fr>wrote:

> Greetings to all!
>
> I don't have access to the other mailing list (the non developer's one), so
> if anyone who has access to it think it is advisable to diffuse this e-mail
> also to that other list, please do so.
>
> We already talked about INRIA's will to host a hackfest, and I have the
> pleasure to announce you that we precised our idea a little.
> I met the dkfz people last week in Nice, and already told them about the
> idea, and it's been received quite positively, and so I am doing the same
> proposition to a wider audience.
>
> We are organising an imaging workshop (among the VPH community) not so
> dissimilar to the one that preceded the hack fest back in Barcelona last
> year in our premises in Sophia Antipolis.
> Only this one will be centered around the interoperability of imaging
> tools. Of course interacting through CTK would be a way to answer that
> problem.
> And that would be a perfect occasion to squeeze a CTK hackfest right after
> it. Due to the publicity needed for the workshop, it cannot be done before
> summer, and Summer is a no go for many people,
> September and October have been deemed to busy because of the start of the
> academic year, and so November came out as a reasonable month. We were think
> of first or second week of November.
> Something like : and of first week for our workshop, and the following week
> for the hackfest, so that people wishing to attend both could do so.
> Of course, would some of you like even to attend the workshop, you would be
> very much welcome.
>
> My questions are the following:
> 1- Are you all in favour of this happening in principle?
> 2- Are the dates ok for you all, since initially it was supposed that a
> hack fest would be organised sooner in the year?
> 3- Any remark or advice?
>
> I would like to add that last Friday we applied for a grant (a VPH seed
> exemplar project) for getting one person working on the interoperability of
> our (UPF, CNRS and INRIA's) imaging tools.
> And this proposal mentioned a possible interoperability using CTK as a
> translation layer (either using plugins, or message bus, or application
> hosting). The content of the workshop I mentioned already
> will depend on the success of the proposal, but the workshop will happen
> whatever the outcome.
> The only thing is that the work would be much more advanced if some
> engineer worked on interoperability full time in the 3 months prior to the
> workshop.
> If we can put together this workshop, the grant and the hackfest, real good
> things can happen to CTK.
>
> I am looking forward to seeing your opinion on this,
> Best wishes,
> Benoit.
>
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