Re: Gittogether event?

From: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Date: Aug 25, 2008, 19:15 UTC
Message-ID: <200808252115.09916.chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
In-Reply-To: <20080822143407.GE3483@spearce.org>

Le vendredi 22 août 2008, Shawn O. Pearce a écrit :

>
> This smells like a survey to me.  ;-)

Yes, and here is my answer. (I had to discuss a little with my wife so took me some time to come up with it.)

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> We should put together something really short, and try to get folks
> to answer it, not just from our developer list, but maybe also our
> user communities.  Maybe something like:
>
> 	1: Are you interested in attending a Gittogether:
> 		[ ] Yes   [ ]  No

Yes, definitely.

> 		If you answered no, you can give up on the survey now.
>
> 	2: Would you travel to Portland, Oregon for the Gittogether:
> 		[ ] Yes   [ ]  No

Yes or to San Fransisco. I will probably stay 3 or 4 days even if I don't attend any other conference/event. Any free accomodation would be greatly appreciated.

(Flight costs from Paris France are about 550 EUR (825 US$) for Portland Oregon around the 20th of September and 630-670 EUR (950-1000 US$) for San Fransisco around the 27th of October. Flights takes between 13 and 23 hours each as they are not direct.)

> 	3: What month/year would be best?
> 		Option list for next 12 months from Oct 08-Oct 09.

Oct 08 is ok. After that I would prefer between May 09 and Oct 09. Anyway not Nov 08 or Dec 08.

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> 	4: What would you hope to see/accomplish while there?
> 		[ ] Instructor-lead Git training
> 		[ ] 24 hour hack-a-new-feature contest
> 		[ ] ... ?
> 		Enter other ideas: [  <big text box thingy>    ]

I'd like small sessions (half a day/night long) that go like this:

- 1 hour long presentation and discussion: someone talks about a topic and 
some problems about it, then we discuss what could be done about this topic
- a few hours long hacking: we try to implement solutions for problems 
related to the previous discussion.

But I guess anything will do.

> 	5: Would you volunteer to help organize it?

Yes. Though I am probably not in the best place to help. But I can start to gather some information on a web page on the wiki or something.

> 		Trick question.  Email blah@blah to indicate how you can help.

Thanks, Christian.