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

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]

Originally Posted by 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

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

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]

Originally Posted by 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

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
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btw, is anyone here in Australia ? [/edit]

[@$3.1415rin]

Originally Posted by 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.

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]

Originally Posted by 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.

Amsterdam seems to be a good place to do it then ...