Hi Jukka, The idea is not entirely new. In ApacheCon 2001, there was a "meet the developer" corner where I met Erik Meade, the maintainer of Junit at the time. He was interested in some log4j feature so we pair programmed for about two hours. It was a memorable experience.
There was however a major downside to "meet the developer" corner. Each volunteering developer had to be present for several arbitrarily-set hours. So, I missed a couple of presentations waiting for people to show up, like a shoe seller awaiting clients. Very few people showed up. I was lucky enough to meet Erik, so overall it was a very good experience. Assuming there would be WiFi access during the conference, instead of the developers idly sitting around, a wiki page could be created to allow interested attendees and developers to prearrange a time for their meeting. Cheers, Jukka Zitting wrote:
Hi, Here's an idea I came up with for the proposed Content/Web Technology track in ApacheCon US 2009: We'd reserve and mark a table or a corner of the Hackathon area as the "Meet the developers" corner where conference attendees could come and meet the speakers and other project committers in a semi-organized manner. The "corner" would have a wiki page where people from various projects can sign up so everyone will know when they'll be there and what projects they know about. This should make it easier for users and other interested people to connect with the developers. The corner could also be used as a place for ad-hoc demos, hands-on tutorials, etc. and I'd like to ask the speakers of this track to drop by the corner for 10-15 minutes after their presentation for any followup questions and discussions for which there wasn't enough time earlier. If people like this idea, we could even expand it to cover the entire conference instead of just a single track. WDYT? BR, Jukka Zitting
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