Invitation to the MacPorts Meeting in Slovenia from the 13-17th of March 2016

[Mojca Miklavec]

Dear MacPorts users and developers,

We are happy to announce a MacPorts Meeting taking place in Gozd
Martuljek in Slovenia (next to Italy & Austria) between the 13th and
17th of March 2016.

(In [an unlikely?] case that a significant number of people fill in
the registration form by the end of this week claiming that one week
earlier would work better for everyone, we can still shift the
meeting. We could also prolong the meeting for one day if there is
demand for that.)

Information:
http://trac.macports.org/wiki/Meetings/MacPortsMeeting2016

Registration form:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1bZSY0bHtJPvYNq1gjm8QhkA7EhoBjVqKr_l7RQfGjlQ/viewform

(We would like to ask you to register by the end of the year to help
us better plan for the meeting. Your registration is confirmed once
you send 100 EUR which we will use for place reservation.)


A MacPorts meeting would be an excellent opportunity to meet fellow
port developers face-to-face, to brainstorm ideas together, agree
about priorities of future development, decrease the number of open
tickets, put your heads together and finally code (or force someone to
code) those hacks that you never had time to or knew how to implement.

This should also be an excellent opportunity for anyone who would like
to learn more about development of packages/port for the Mac. Or maybe
you are a devoted user or a developer of some software package that
doesn't have a package on Mac yet and you would like some help?

We need your input (and your presence at the meeting) to put together
a wonderful program, packed with a mixture of interesting talks,
round-table discussions, brainstorming sessions, hacking sessions late
in the night next to a fireplace of a tile stove ... possibly while
your kids have a snowball fight just outside of the house. The
location is suitable for family holidays.

Feel free to contact me and Aljaž with any further questions (or keep
the questions that are of general interest on the macports-dev mailing
list).

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If there are any volunteers to help us put a link to the meeting to
the most suitable place on our website, we will be grateful for your
help.

Mojca & Aljaž