[Hackathon] hackathon spin-off in berlin?

[wagnerdm at seas.upenn.edu]

Quoting Matthias Fischmann <fis at etc-network.de>:

> i guess the 6-hour time difference could be handled by adjusting the
> berlin location to eastern standard?  if we set talks in your
> afternoon / our morning or a little alter, i don't see any problem.

I think the time difference goes the other way. Our afternoon is your evening.

> what needs to be done?
>
>  1. it would be nice to set up a video conference link that people can
>     walk into on both sides and that will broadcast the talks.  i
>     guess that would be one laptop with decent audio and video
>     dedicated to skype on each side.  we should probably test this a
>     few days ahead of the event.  i'll take care of the hardware on
>     our end.

Cool. Let's organize a test run off-list.

>  2. chatroom: i think a text-based channel is also essential.  should
>     we use jabber?  if nobody else is volunteering, i'll take care of
>     that, too.

Well, there's the #haskell-hacphi IRC channel.

~d