[Conference-europe] Code sprint for the Friday?

[Jeff McKenna]

A lot of code sprints are off-site (not necessarily at the same
conference venue); so that may solve your Friday issue.  But that often
involves a local private company offering their site.  It is getting
tight in time to find something like that though.

-jeff



On 2014-05-12, 4:22 AM, Peter Baumann wrote:
> Hi Jachym,
> 
> thanks for clarifying!
> 
> On 05/12/2014 09:17 AM, Jachym Cepicky wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> the sprint usually takes at least "whole day".
>>
>> It should be usually off the regular program, so "after plenary" is
>> probably the
>> best choice. Same applies for "before confernce start".
> 
> ok, then we have 2 options:
> - before: clashes with German-speaking forum. Shouldn't be a problem
> since the forum visitors typically will be high-level users, not coders.
> - after: if we run our summer school (which currently is not entirely
> clear) then this would mean presentations on Fri and coding on Sat, so a
> direct clash.
> 
> Hence, if in doubt I suggest Monday.
> 
>>
>> About the parallesiation: usually, workshops are off main program too,
>> but if
>> there is no other chance, it sometimes happen, they are part of the
>> program as
>> well.
> 
> hm, same problem as above, and I'm not sure how to solve this. What
> would you suggest in view of the above planning facets?
> 
> -Peter
> 
> 
> 
>>
>> Jachym
>>
>> On Sun, May 11, 2014 at 04:57:05PM +0200, Peter Baumann wrote:
>>> Jachym-
>>>
>>> just for the planning:
>>> - how many hours should the sprint go?
>>> - we should make sure that at the closing plenary all are
>>> participating, so can we put it Fri morning? (I'm tempted to suggest
>>> Sat, but people already start booking cheap trains etc, so if that's
>>> what we want then we'd need to announce that really fast)
>>>
>>> The last is also a question to the program committee - we have 2
>>> parallel sessions + a workshop track; this might distract people too
>>> much. Any solution in sight?
>>>
>>> thanks for putting our brains together,
>>> Peter
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On 05/06/2014 10:48 PM, Jachym Cepicky wrote:
>>>> I wanted to share details as soon as I get the dates confirmed
>>>>
>>>> Jachym
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, May 06, 2014 at 10:27:01AM -0300, Jeff McKenna wrote:
>>>>> Hi Jachym,
>>>>>
>>>>> Ok great to hear that it has already been discussed.
>>>>>
>>>>> By the way, I would hope that some of your discussions could happen on
>>>>> this [conference-europe] mailing list, as there are over one hundred
>>>>> existing members and many wondering why there is no visible activity.
>>>>> So I took it upon myself to wake up everyone here! :)
>>>>>
>>>>> -jeff
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On 2014-05-06, 10:15 AM, Jachym Cepicky wrote:
>>>>>> Hi Jeff,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> yes, we already talked about it and the feedback is positive.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> But maybe some on the spot can give you more details. WIFI and
>>>>>> rooms are there.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I would like to ask some sponsors of the sprint directly, so we
>>>>>> can get some
>>>>>> refreshment
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Jachym
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Tue, May 06, 2014 at 10:08:58AM -0300, Jeff McKenna wrote:
>>>>>>> Hello everyone,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I'm wondering if there are people interested in having a code
>>>>>>> sprint on
>>>>>>> the Friday of the event (18th).  We'd need a venue with solid
>>>>>>> internet/wifi.  Other than that, the usual requirements
>>>>>>> (coffee/snacks
>>>>>>> in morning and afternoon, sandwiches at lunch, enough tables and
>>>>>>> power
>>>>>>> outlets).
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Thoughts?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Looking forward to seeing everyone soon.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> -jeff
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
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