Reminder - Team FTF meeting, make your travel plans now

[Eric S. Raymond]

(Resent due to temporary CBL block. Might reach you more than once as I test.)

We're having a face-to-face team meeting at Penguicon.
Event page here: https://2016.penguicon.org/

Dates are April 29th to May 1st, at the Southfield Westin in Southfield, MI.
Rooms there are now scarce but there's a Holiday Inn Express across the
parking lot.

Southfield is near the northwestern edge of the Detroit metro area and is
served by the Detroit Metropolitan Airport (code DTW).

Penguicon is a crossover event: half science-fiction convention, half
open-source technical conference.  Terry Pratchett and I were the
co-guests-of-honor at Penguicon I back in 2003 and I've been back evey
year since.

Susan and Daniel, as well as myself, have been to previous Penguicons.
The dev team as it was then had one previous FTF gathering at a
Penguicon, last year before LF picked up the project.

I cordially invite all members of the project.  It's good to have
a face-to-face meeting occasionally, and Penguicon is about the most fun
possible place we could do it - also, pretty centrally located for
the team as a whole.  Mark, Daniel, Susan, and I will definitely
be there.

Daniel will be giving a scheduled talk on how NTP works at this one
which I certainly plan to attend, as he has probably gone deeper into
the actual time-sync algorithms than any of us at this point.

I expect we'll schedule a formal meeting; Mark's schedule is the most
constrained due to OpenStack so I'll suggest he start the discussion
of timing.

If you've never been to an SF con, you have no idea how much fun this can
be.  A couple thousand unusually intelligent people well equipped
with geek toys and costumes and an inclination to party can generate
a lot of happy chaos, and Penguicon reliably does.  If you leave Monday
without having made new friends, you weren't trying.

Things I have done at Penguicon: Singing. Shooting pistols. Tasting
showcased exotic foods.  Getting surprise-smooched by attractive
persons.  Swordfighting. Playing strategy games. Junkyard
Wars. Participating in a Viking raid (OK, it turned into a dance-off).
Punning contests.  And trust me, you have never been to parties
wuth better conversation than the ones we throw.

Fly in Thursday night (the 28th) if you can because Geeks With Guns (the annual
pistol-shooting class founded by yours truly and now organized by John
D. Bell) is early Friday afternoon and too much fun to miss. Think of it
as a team-building exercise.
-- 
		<a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/">Eric S. Raymond</a>

"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary 
safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
	-- Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania, 1759.