Bot Dev / Admin Meeting

[@$3.1415rin]

Hi,

First I was thinking about opening this thread in the admin's corner, since we cannot and do not want to have a meeting of 1500 BU members :) but finally I put it here ...

I think everybody who was in Amsterdam on the bot dev meeting agrees that this was a fine event and that it shouldn't be a single event. I know this is a hard task to get all together, but it's worth the effort for sure. And decisions on things like a united bot and / or a game will be less problematic if talking face to face. Therefore I created this thread to keep this idea in our heads :D

I'm currently studying, so apart from tests where I don't know the dates yet, the time of the meeting isnt a problem. And as long as we don't meet at NoVa's place in Australia, but somewhere here in middleeurope the place shouldnt be a problem neither.

So what about the others here ?

[stefanhendriks]

I have specific periods where i have tests. I also work in weekends, but when a date is set (even if it is in a weekend) i can probably arrange i have a day off.

Most easy for me is when i have vacation/holidays.

Anything in EU is fine. I think somewhere centralized would be nice, or somewhere that is relatively close to everybody. Ie, when 2 are from Germany, 1 from Netherlands and 1 from Southern-France then i think somewhere in the middle (Belgium perhaps) would do fine.

Anyway, thats just a speculation.

Something i would like to add to Asp's proposal, i think it should be a yearly event at least :)

[Nova]

I have specific periods where i have tests. I also work in weekends, but when a date is set (even if it is in a weekend) i can probably arrange i have a day off.

Most easy for me is when i have vacation/holidays.

Anything in EU is fine. I think somewhere centralized would be nice, or somewhere that is relatively close to everybody. Ie, when 2 are from Germany, 1 from Netherlands and 1 from Southern-France then i think somewhere in the middle (Belgium perhaps) would do fine.

Anyway, thats just a speculation.

Something i would like to add to Asp's proposal, i think it should be a yearly event at least :)
Well, if i happend to be in europe that itme ill let ya know :)

[SoUlFaThEr]

i dont do coding of bots but i would like to be there.

I think im helping a lot right now......and intend(gotten really no feedback on it tho) to help mapping for the GAME.

plus i dig the idea of meeting all you cool bros in one spot in person :)

im in Germany, Bavaria

[Pierre-Marie Baty]

Doing another bot dev meeting is a seducing idea... but depending on what we want we may want to restrict or enlarge the field of whom we may invite and who we don't.

If it's for discussing about serious bot coding techniques, with quality discussions, then let's redo exactly what we did in Amsterdam by Stefan's... invite AI popes like William again... and try to be a little more structured than last time :D

If it's for meeting together and having fun, then why not invite all the fellow members of this board who want to come and make a huge party somewhere ? Like those they do in the demo scene :)

We can do both perhaps

I'll be at the Oktoberfest this year ! Maybe I can meet one or two of you there ? =)

[Nova]

Doing another bot dev meeting is a seducing idea... but depending on what we want we may want to restrict or enlarge the field of whom we may invite and who we don't.

If it's for discussing about serious bot coding techniques, with quality discussions, then let's redo exactly what we did in Amsterdam by Stefan's... invite AI popes like William again... and try to be a little more structured than last time :D

If it's for meeting together and having fun, then why not invite all the fellow members of this board who want to come and make a huge party somewhere ? Like those they do in the demo scene :)

We can do both perhaps

I'll be at the Oktoberfest this year ! Maybe I can meet one or two of you there ? =) Why not make it a mixture of those ... some of the BEST topic-specific discussions i have heard were at random parties ... i went to a party the other day with the Computer Science Department at Uni here, and i turned out to be a massive OpenGL discussion :)

Seb

btw, is anyone here in Australia ?

[@$3.1415rin]

Doing another bot dev meeting is a seducing idea... but depending on what we want we may want to restrict or enlarge the field of whom we may invite and who we don't.

I'll be at the Oktoberfest this year ! Maybe I can meet one or two of you there ? =)
that's an idea :) although munich is expensive, so we better choose on a "base" outside munich and then just go there for a night or so.

Deciding whome to invite is a difficult decision, therefore I havnt talked about it on the opening post. My idea was to get the bot developers together like in Amsterdam, but also invite important persons from bu, like mappers e.g. :) Well, they do not code, but they know how different things affect the player as well, and in terms of deciding about a new bot or even a new game, those person's can be pretty 'useful' too.
and we don't have to hang out together in one group the whole time, maybe we can divide into several 'sessions', so at one point of time, we'll have a round only of bot developers, discussing stuff that not so important for persons like soulfather :)

[SoUlFaThEr]

lol WAAAAA i dont feel important!!
rofl :) hahahaha

[Cpl. Shrike]

Well if it's in my area im interested.
Cos i have to travel by public transport.
And after my holiday to Michigan i won't have substantial money left to travel again.
And i can't go in the month of july im on holiday then.

I saw Amsterdam mentioned a few times.
If it turns out you guys meet there im there to.
I live only 15mins from Amsterdam (and i work there)

Besides that id love to have chat with you all.

[Nova]

Well if it's in my area im interested.
Cos i have to travel by public transport.
And after my holiday to Michigan i won't have substantial money left to travel again.
And i can't go in the month of july im on holiday then.

I saw Amsterdam mentioned a few times.
If it turns out you guys meet there im there to.
I live only 15mins from Amsterdam (and i work there)

Besides that id love to have chat with you all.
Amsterdam seems to be a good place to do it then ...

[stefanhendriks]

Lol @ Cpl Shrike! I live 30 mins from Amsterdam! :D

[botmeister]

How about we hold the meeting over my way? Vancouver, Canada is wonderfull this time of year :) j/k

Hey, how about a video conference for the people who live in remote corners of the earth?

[SoUlFaThEr]

damn cool idea...

[Nova]

How about we hold the meeting over my way? Vancouver, Canada is wonderfull this time of year :) j/k

Hey, how about a video conference for the people who live in remote corners of the earth?
i second that !

[stefanhendriks]

This thread seems to lose attention! So what are we gonna do? Let me put these questions:

- where?
- when?

the most important is WHEN. But we also have to know WHERE.

I think it would be fun to have other BU members here as well. We could eventually arrange some lan party? :)

[TruB]

BU-Lan! ;)
for BU members only.. Free Beer! and no messing around the security guard...

[Pierre-Marie Baty]

w00t! I can carry my luggable with me... as long as it's 220V at the wall socket it'll work :)

That would be fun...
About the date, I'll be moving around quite often this summer, and I honestly don't know if I'll be able to arrange one weekend. If the date is fixed and not moveable, maybe I can. But I'll for sure be busy as hell.

[SoUlFaThEr]

im not that important on this one but im free anytime.

[stefanhendriks]

Look guys, i am around this summer too. It can be any destination. I am with a fellow student though ;) Anyway, i don't know yet when we are goin , as i have to get hollidays from my work.

Probably i will hear this soon, but still...

anyway. I also have a friend who is very interested in this LAN party. We can bring our computers. I have a laptop so no problem for me ;) Perhaps we can arrange something in the summer, even if it is a weekend i woul dbe in for sure :)

[SoUlFaThEr]

i Vote for

Frankfurt or Köln(Cologne).....its seems sort of central to some of us

[@$3.1415rin]

as I said, i'm ok with almost all places. In amsterdam we decided to take a smaller town than amsterdam next time, to save money :)

never been to cologne, so that'd be fine with me :)

maybe we should meet somewhen all in irc like when we discussed about the asmterdam meeting. Dunno, Sunday at 15 MEST ?

[SoUlFaThEr]

good idea im there

[stefanhendriks]

I think Sunday at 8pm would be ok (GMT + 1).

[Terran]

While thinking about a location keep in mind the "video conference" idea. You will need some (fast) internet connection for this.

[Pierre-Marie Baty]

About the chat, I don't know at all if I can be there. I can't guarantee, but I'll try.

[SoUlFaThEr]

oh shit.....i cant be there......i have band practice......but i guess ill be informed what the result was :)

[@$3.1415rin]

if it's better for you, maybe we can try to find another date for the chat ?

[stefanhendriks]

keep in mind i am at home till wednesday. And at wednesday i am not even on-line.

So, monday, tuesday. Fine. Can't promise exactly some times. But i will be there around 22.00 i think, perhaps sooner.

[@$3.1415rin]

ok, we gotta decide on some date soon. I'm at home in the evenings next few days for sure ...

please scroll up, I added a poll :)

[TruB]

and you voted 3 times?

[@$3.1415rin]

yes, I have time all three days like I said

[@$3.1415rin]

Let's try it tomorrow evening, when stefan has also time.

some cool suggestions for the locations is something to think about :)

€dit on monday : assuming that you ladies know how to vote since some of already voted in this thread, I see that only stefan and me have time today ?

[@$3.1415rin]

closing thread, but we should still have the idea of a bigger meeting in our minds :)