I'm not sure that the format worked so well. Except when I was throwing
questions out to the floor, everyone was silently typing away on their
laptops.
While I did pick up some very useful information in the answers (thanks
especially Sean O'C and Sean D), the event seemed pretty dead otherwise.
Could this be because only the experts showed up, and nobody who
needed development help? A few discussions got going on some topics,
but petered out pretty quickly. Was it that news of the event didn't get
out into the general community? Would more of an advertising build-up
have helped? Do most people doing Web development consider themselves
experts already, and feel no need to attend a hack-a-thon? Are there just
no Web developers in the region, or do they mostly use canned CMSs and
are not interested in bending code? Ulster County isn't exactly Silicon
Valley.
My thanks to Sean D (and anyone else who pitched in to organize this), but
I don't think it worked that well.
Sean Dague wrote:
Orion Vianna wrote:
Todays Hackaton was absolutely awesome, I had a good time and good
learning experience.
Is there a plan for the next Hack-A-Thon?
We'll definitely have more of them in the future, as I think the format
works pretty well. Because it's such a big time commitment, and giving
up a Saturday, my thoughts was to go with a couple times a year.
I'm definitely interested in hearing feedback from folks here.
-Sean
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Upcoming Meetings (6pm - 8pm) MHVLS Auditorium
Mar 7 - Web Hack-a-thon - SUNY Newpaltz
Apr 1 - EC2 and Cloud Computer
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