#musicbrainz-devel

haha

ruaok: Still, it might be neat to be able to borrow that one for the few days.

I wonder if there is a coffee grinder at the house.

speaking of addicts ;p

I mean, it's Copenhagen. Walking is for tourists.

All the natives bike.

ianmcorvidae: damn straight. I'll be doing schlepping of gear from BCN.

I get that. :)

the airbnb I rented for the 24th has bikes included in the rental.

Neat.

How many?

which is perfect. except I will have but 2 hours to make use of it.

unsure.

but I'm there for only about 16 hours, so not much use.

True.

I'm still looking for a place for us to park during the day of the 24th.

I contacted on centrally located co-working space that had a horrible web site.

against my better judgement I contacted them.

and got a form email in response.

sigh.

heh

kloeri: would there be any spaces available for us to use from 12h until 17:30h on thursday the 25th?

(at CBS)

aside from that, anything else that we need to cover for the summit?

A Modern Talking song!

(all together :p)

heh. onward to agenda items.

first, recap from last week regarding area stuffs.

first caller#6 has been made an area editor.

and I've asked kepstin to also be an editor. he's still getting up to speed what is necessary for the job before he gets back to me.

I think that ought to suffice for now.

ruaok: Oh, I came to think of a place.

Freso: got link?

ruaok: conjuring it as we speak.

thanks.

so, did anyone have any ideas on how to fix the area bot?

I've heard a couple of mutters.

but I feel that we don't really have enough of a quorum to carry on with this.

right, so, this is a hard problem because possibly what we need is participants

bueller?

but the closest proxy for that we have would probably be integrating it with musicbrainz-server

not sure, re: quorum, nikki's asleep

but we can discuss a bit at least, possibly, make sure people who are here know what's up?

or leave it for the summit. :)

it seems a like a decent summit topic.

bitmap: it's nikki's work, runs on rika, uses wikidata's structural data and types to add new areas to MB

and my geonames stuff also runs under the username, though that's a separate (and more crappy :P) script

okay

well, that's how it works when it's running, at least, which it hasn't been lately

I knew it was nikki's and used wikidata, but had no idea where it was set up

primarily because of maintainability concerns

though also because it might be better to use geonames data rather than wikidata

since wikidata is a newer and vaguer project

which also ties into the other topic of the geonames mapping, of course, but :)

hmm. ok. I understand lightly more now. ;)

I'll add it to the topic list of the summit.

anything we should talk about?

yeah, it may be the "night track" discussion topic, if not inline

yeah.

(i.e. more informal. but I dunno, maybe it'd work more formally)

I think we should really focus to split up more this year.

ruaok: I don't know if it has been noticed, but I added Zikme to the list of presentations.

perfect.

But I obviously didn't actually approach them about it.

So just wanted to be sure they actually have a presentation for us... ? :)

I already let them know that they should give us a presentation, but I disallowed powerpoint.

haha

Haha. Good. ;)

and here I was wondering if I should make slides for some of mine :P

I asked them to just informally present their idea. from geeks to geeks.

+1

(but I might have diagrams? dunno :P)

ianmcorvidae: I would expect your slides to not half naked women and be super dense with data. all good. :)

heh, presumably graphviz and LaTeX output? :P

bring it. :)

I enjoyed the lunch I had with those two.

I've met a lot of people trying to start things here and there, but somehow those two seem more realistic about things.

You had lunch with graphviz and LaTeX output? :p

we just need to make sure they drink the open source koolaid.

:)

right. lets close for the evening.

thanks everyone

ruaok has changed the topic to: Supercooled liquid week | Agenda:

reosarevok has changed the topic to: Er... pretty hot week? | Agenda:

That was an action packed meeting.

Phew.

I'm trying to reserve the small room now.

it still can take 25 people.

not sure if that will be ok with them.

At Studenterhuset?

yep, submitted.

If so, feel free to put it in my name. Since I'm actually a student at KU.

Oh. Okay. :p

they had a field for where you study.

UPF, barcelona.

heh.

:)

alba would back me up on that.

Sure.

I doubt they'll check up on it though.

Church or Yard Wing?

being present around people who know things you don't totally counts as being a student :P

:)

yard wing.

(I'll claim, anyway :P)

It's a neat spot.

And very central.

ianmcorvidae: :)

My feeling is that we're certainly bleeding heart liberal student like that they won't look twice.

now, if we all rolled in with suits, that would be a different matter.

bitmap: did you get your travelex card yet?

yep, picked it up earlier this month

do you have to pick it up or can they mail it?

I think I remember seeing a mail option

k.

I've referred several people to that now.

I've had another friend arrive in scandinavia and be shut out from renting bikes, for example.

Freso: did my friend ever make contact with you?

ruaok: Tourism-wise, Studenterhuset is also a good spot to have the early-arrivers meet at. It's close to some of the more central train stations (Nørreport being the closest, but the central station isn't too far either), next to Rundetårn (one of the Cph landmarks), and next to "Strøget", the Cph walking/shopping street.

yep, which is exactly why I jumped on that.

ruaok: Yep. But we didn't meet up this time around, since I've been busy all day today.

I can meet ian and nikki at the train. bitmap and reo arrive around noon.

ruaok: And one of the reasons I brought it up, too. :)

and I think I'll just send them to the student house directly.

Good idea.

which makes all of this really easy. lets hope they are cool with us meeting there.

so, thanks for the tip.

iirc there's a 5.5% "foreign exchange fee" if you run out of the local currency

if they give me a hassle about being a student, can I lean on you to help out Freso ?

bitmap: ok, sucks, but with some planning it can be avoided.

yeah

can you link your bank account to the card?

meaning that within a few clicks you can initiate a transfer?

ruaok: Sure thing.

grand

I just poked a guy I believe is volunteering there... he may or may not be involved with locale bookings. I can't remember. Anyway. He's poked about it now, and if he is, I'll ask him about it.

ruaok: don't think so, since they claim it's a security risk

but you can reload with a debit card online

AFAIK, most places accept VISA btw.

Freso: remember that the US doesn't have chip/pin cards though

(hence the special card)

Oh, yeah.

But for non-US'ians. :p

Oh.

ians.