On 2017-08-03 12:10 +0100, Dave Clucas via Therion wrote:

On 3 Aug 2017, at 11:00, therion-request@speleo.sk wrote:

Isn’t the right time to make a developer conference of both clans together?

Hidden Earth? :-)

The main developers live in New Zealand, Slovakia and the Czech Republic (are we supposed to call it Czechia these days?). Hidden Earth in the UK is not the most convenient location for them to attend. Not sure where Vladimir lives (Bulgaria?). I suggest that a software conference at next year's Eurospeleo event in Austria (St Gilgen) might be more suitable, at least for European cavers. It probably is time to have a decent surveyors gathering again as the last major one I am aware of was at the 1994 Charmey conference, although we did get quite a lot of us together for an evening in Brno, and a very useful discussion at Eurospeleo in Yorkshire last year. Is anyone inspired to organise a surveying day/software conf at Eurospeleo next year? http://eurospeleo.at/ That last session (Yorkshire/Eurospeleo) illustrates the main issue though - there were lots of users there, who can suggest improvements at a great rate of knots, but almost no developers with the time and expertise to implement them. This doesn't really help get things done, although it does help somewhat with direction. You will notice from https://github.com/therion/therion/graphs/contributors that the main survex author is already the 2nd-most prolific contributor to therion in recent times, so we do not actually have a lack-of-collaboration problem at all. Wookey -- Principal hats: Linaro, Debian, Wookware, ARM http://wookware.org/