Phil M Perry wrote: > 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.
I think that was part of the point. :) It was really intended as a
forum to bring laptop and code you are working on, and as we get a
critical mass of folks, we can get people asking questions about stuff
they are playing with.
We were definitely not intending to turn it into a conference, more of a
collective "do your own thing" event. Perhaps something we could do
next time is get people to do a 15 minute run down on what project they
are hacking on.
> 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.
As far as attendance our Saturday events always draw about that ~12
number for people. That seems to be the number of people that want to
geek out for a Saturday and don't have conflicts.
-Sean
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