Arje Cahn wrote:
Hi Cocoon-dev,
Below is a summary of ideas that I received on my first GT2006 email.
I'm quite surprised that some of them actually suggest to skip the public talks, or at least to focus
even stronger on the Hackaton.
Also, I'm suprised that I got *no* response from the cocoon-users list (naive
as I am :) ).
I'm a little bit worried that the Cocoon GetTogether is becoming too much of a Cocoon DEV-Together...
Wouldn't it be good from a community point of view if we open up a little and target 1 whole day to
the cocoon-users? This is something I could ask the Users list. Hopefully we can then lower the barrier
for people to come to the GetTogether and get involved in Cocoon.
What about a special "meet the Cocoon devs" session? I know that the whole
Hackathon is open for everybody but a special session could be an explicit
invitation for users. This session should be moderated and the topics come from
the participating non-committers.
I think we could use the GetTogether much
more as a "marketing" event for Cocoon. Pretty much all of the Cocoon core developers show up - why not
do shorter, flashier presentations of what you can achieve with Cocoon, right from the core developers??
yes, there could be a session with "kowledge flashes". This could lower the
barrier for people (like me) to prepare something as doing a one-hour talk needs
a lot of preparation, a 5 to 10 minutes presentation is much simpler.
Add 2 days of Hackaton, with more informal in-depth talks as last year's Cocoon
internals.
Apart from all that, I've been so free to make a reservation at the Felix Meritis venue where we held the
Hackaton last year. For three whole days:
Monday 2nd, Tuesday 3rd and Wednesday 4th of October, from 9AM to 11PM :)
This is by no means definitive! But I think Felix Meritis had a good vibe (more like the Ghent venue!).
yes, Felix Meritis is great
I've reserved both the Hackaton "Moshpit" and the really nice "Zuilenzaal", which can hold up to 100-200
people, depending on the setting. This makes us much more flexible. It would even be an option to
rent both rooms during the Talks day, so we end up with a three day hackaton + public talks :)
This means there is no day that is explicitly dedicated to public talks, right?
Personally, I like this idea as it is ways more productive. My favorite event
last year was the "guided tour" through Cocoon when I interviewed Carsten and
Sylvain about the internals.
- o -
If we "only" have a Hackathon + public talks we should make sure that we still
have things like a speical website and some kind of offical program as many
people coming from companies need this to convince their bosses and to justify
the expenses.
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Reinhard Pötz Independent Consultant, Trainer & (IT)-Coach
{Software Engineering, Open Source, Web Applications, Apache Cocoon}
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