[OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G 2009 Code sprint

[Paul Ramsey]

It's not a given. Those of us with young families back home are under
a certain pressure to "get back to the nest". For every example, there
is a counter-example. :)

P.

On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 10:15 PM, Erik Uzureau <euzuro at gmail.com> wrote:
> in the event that it's not already completely clear from my post 5 minutes
> ago (d'oh, before reading this thread)
>
> i completely concur with what chris has said here. I think it's pretty
> reasonable to think that anyone who is going
> to put in the $ to go out to australia is probably planning on spending at
> least two or three days to do a bit of
> travelling (i feel confident of that but maybe it's actually *not* a valid
> assumption?) and so having the spacing between
> the code sprint and the conference is in my mind a great idea.
>
> -e
>
> On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 2:27 PM, Christopher Schmidt
> <crschmidt at crschmidt.net> wrote:
>>
>> On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 04:45:49PM +0800, Tim Bowden wrote:
>> > The FOSS4G 2009 team are planning a 3 day code sprint.  The conference
>> > itself will be starting with workshops on Tuesday 20 Oct and finishing
>> > on Friday 23rd Oct.
>> >
>> > The possibilities for the code sprint are for the preceding Wednesday-
>> > Friday giving a long weekend in between (giving time for touring, more
>> > coding or whatever) or Sat - Monday with no break between the code
>> > sprint and the conference.  What would people prefer?
>>
>> I'm strongly in favor of the former.
>>
>> For one, like Cape Town, Sydney is too long of a flight to make it just
>> a trip about the conference, in my opinion. We had an organized group do
>> a two day trip down the cape after the Code Sprint in Cape Town, and I
>> think it was a really successful bonding experience for those of us who
>> came along, allowing some non-coding social time where we all go to hang
>> out and know each other a little better, which I expect will help
>> develop better communications in the coming months within the project.
>>
>> Also, having a break between the conference after the code sprint keeps
>> the possibility of having a 'finished' result of something by the
>> conference more likely as well. In general, code sprints are good at
>> producing a lot of unpolished code: a couple days can help to get the
>> code a bit more polished in order to present it as a new development
>> during the conference, if people so choose.
>>
>> Lastly, I think that having a break before the conference gives people a
>> bit of time to unwind: code sprints tend to be exhausting if you do them
>> right (taking full advantage of shared physical location with long
>> hours, for example), and going directly from that into a conference
>> (described by one attendee as being similar to 'a 5 day long rave' due
>> to the amount of energy it consumes) feels dangerous. :)
>>
>> Regards,
>> --
>> Christopher Schmidt
>> Web Developer
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