A few logistical items that I'd like to make sure are being taken care of for
the hackathon. The idea is to work this out now to maximize our in-site
hacking time.
I don't know what the status of this is, but here's what I can think of off
the top of my head.
*) Access for wirelessless laptops?
Somebody always shows up from 1996 with a laptop that doesn't have wireless.
Either a wired hub is made available or USB wireless widgets.
* If your laptop doesn't have wireless, please fix that. Almost everything
can talk to USB wireless. If for some reason you absolutely cannot go
wireless, please bring some long cables and a hub.
* If you have a spare USB wireless thing, please bring it.
*) Hackathon repository?
Well-established projects have their own repos, but it's always handy to have
a repository for any new projects started at the hackathon and for everyone to
already have access.
* Do we have one? Andy, can we use hex-ten?
* A checkin notify list should also be ready.
*) Whiteboards, markers & erasers.
Lots of whiteboards for taking notes. At least one whiteboard just for
projects being worked on, the "grid" at BarCamps is an example.
*) Index cards & pens
Both for taking notes and for anyone wanting to do XP.
*) Wiki
We have the perl-qa wiki.
* Please resolve any issues you have with accessing/editing it now.
*) Mailing list
We'll just the perl-qa list.
*) Real-time comms.
We have #perl-qa on irc.perl.org. It might make sense to have a twitter
account for broadcasts and cell phone messaging.
*) Caffeine and snacks
"Snacks" covering both the junk food and non-junk food kind. The latter being
anything not covered in sugar and salt. :) Worse comes to worse, some sort of
trail mix that's not covered in sugar and salt.
*) Food plans
A short list of convenient places to order food from. Also easy to get to
places that can accommodate all of us. They must deal with varied dietary
requirements (veggie, no-dairy?, no-wheat?, kosher? etc...). Have at least
pizza and chinese as everyone knows how to deal with that.
This way we can just make food appear without having to spend time on what
everyone wants and needs.
* Please list your dietary requirements/preferences here.
http://perl-qa.hexten.net/wiki/index.php/Oslo_QA_Hackathon_2008_:_Food#Dietary_requirements
* Locals, please list places to get food from here:
http://perl-qa.hexten.net/wiki/index.php/Oslo_QA_Hackathon_2008_:_Food#Places_To_Get_Food
*) Water & juice
For drinking something that's not brown and fizzy or brown and foamy.
*) Boiling hot water
A personal request, for tea.
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I have a date with some giant cartoon robots and booze.
