Pick your poison. Before, people are jet lagged and worrying about their talks. After, people are tired and worn out. I would continue to go with a one-day event after. One day is good for sitting down and talking, less good for coding, but the communication is really important.
At the 4-day sprint in Toronto, day 1 was mostly used for talking. I think if you want an event that turns out lots of new/fixed code, you need more time, and more fresh people, which means logistically tying it to FOSS4G is never going to be a great idea. Bolsena, Toronto, those are the models that seem to work. P. On Sat, Oct 24, 2009 at 4:01 PM, Andrea Aime <[email protected]> wrote: > Bart van den Eijnden (OSGIS) ha scritto: >> >> Hi list, >> >> today I was at the code sprint in Sydney, and after a whole week of >> conference with the associated beers and late nights, nothing much >> productive came out of me unfortunately, which was to be expected. >> >> So for next year in Barcelona, I would really appreciate it if the code >> sprint code would be *before* the conference starts. >> >> How do other people feel about this? > > I have the impression the developers that are also giving presentations > or workshops will spend the sprint on conference related stuff ;-) > I for one have been able to make something today, but I wouldn't > have been able to participate at all before the conference. > > Hard to get all people working no matter what the date chosen is I guess, > you'll loose someone anyways.... I guess we can try to guess > what option provides the least damage? Maybe we can ask people > around what option they would have preferred. > > My money is on the sprint after, since I usually have workshops > and presentations to care for. But that is just me. You'd prefer > to have it before. > What about the others? > > Cheers > Andrea > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss > _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
