Request for funds for GNOME Mobile hackfest in Berlin
- What is your name?
Tobias Bernard
- What are you requesting a budget for? Be as specific as possible.
We're organizing a hackfest with the goal of bringing together and better connecting the community around GNOME Mobile, including everything from hardware enablement to OS integration, shell, apps, and UX. It's happening on June 5, 6, and 7 in Berlin, at Cultivation Space, a co-working space in Wedding (Gottschedstrasse 4, 13357 Berlin). Since we'll be using the space for the better part of a week we'd like to make a donation to them for hosting us.
Since there's a strong GNOME community in and around Berlin it made sense to do the event here, because it minimizes travel and is relatively easy to organize.
- What goals do you have for this request and why are they important for GNOME?
Our goals include creating opportunities for community bonding across various projects and domains (GNOME, Purism, PostmarketOS, Debian/Mobian, Flatpak, systemd, etc.), and coordinating future work at all levels, including:
- Hardware enablement, especially around cameras
- Making it easier to get usable development OS images for various devices
- Coordinating the future of shell and OSK design and development
More details on the Wiki page.
- How many people will your activity impact? This can be an estimate.
We're expecting between about 8 and 20 attendees at various times throughout the hackfest.
- How will you measure the impact?
It's hard to measure the impact of events like this, but I think the biggest win would be if we get a more cohesive GNOME Mobile community going forward that works in the same direction on topics like OS base, shell, cameras, and so on. There are also some concrete questions that I'd hope we could reach consensus on between at least some of the communities involved, but which of these we can tackle concretely somewhat depends on who's going to attend.
What we can definitely measure is how much we get done in terms of hacking, e.g. number of issues, merge requests, blog posts, etc.
- What is your requested budget? You can include this in your local currency.
300 Euro
- Is there a date by which you need a decision?
Ideally in the next week or so (e.g. around May 10th), so we have some time to find an alternative space in case this doesn't get approved.