Right then, all things considered.... Reception has been lukewarm, at best. There was initially talk of several teams from OTB who wanted this, but they've not come back to me at all, so we have to assume there is currently one team interested.
If 5-6 teams had wanted to participate, we could have done the whole 48 hours at a push, but I don't think that's likely to happen. Therefore, I'm going to make a call on this: If the MadLab guys want to open up for Rumble teams for part of the time, they of course can and communicate that to the NWRUG list, but FTC is not going to be able to support hosting this event this year. We're too short of volunteers right now given the level of interest, and to host it for 48 hours would have been a major problem. Doing it in pieces is unsatisfactory as Paul Ingham indicates below. The plan - a great plan, if we'd been able to pull it off - has kind of been scuppered by two of its keenest advocates (Ian and Ben) basically not being available for that weekend. It's been worsened by the fact I simply can't commit to being in the space for the whole 48 hours due to family commitments, and it's not fair to ask the one other person keen to provide FTC support (Andy) to shoulder the burden. Let's try and arrange something better for Rails Rumble 2011, and we will definitely host a Ruby hackday or two before the end of the year, so we'll get that moving in due course. Paul On 6 Oct 2010, at 15:18, Paul Ingham wrote: > Hi Paul, > > I'm in a team of 4 who would be interested. The only downside as you > say would be getting chucked out of the place at some point as that > would lose us some time in the actual rumble. > > We're all pretty much based in or around Manchester. > > Thanks, > Paul > > On 5 Oct, 10:02, Paul Robinson <p...@32moves.com> wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> We (as in Fly The Coop) have the ability to open up MadLab for pretty much >> the whole of the Rails Rumble weekend in a couple of weeks for teams who >> want a base in central Manchester. >> >> Unfortunately, we're going to be rather short-staffed, and I'm not massively >> keen on spending the whole 48 hours in the building, and as there needs to >> be at least one FTC'er there at all times it's looking like the plan to open >> up for the full 48 hours straight is not going to happen. >> >> Right now, I just need to assess interest in what teams want from the space, >> so if you have a team (or you're solo), and would like to work with other >> Rails Rumblers over that weekend, can you - sometime today ideally - get in >> touch with what you're after, and I'll see if we can make it work? >> >> Thanks, >> >> Paul > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "NWRUG" group. > To post to this group, send email to nwrug-memb...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > nwrug-members+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/nwrug-members?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NWRUG" group. To post to this group, send email to nwrug-memb...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to nwrug-members+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nwrug-members?hl=en.
