I like the idea of a hackathon and the venue would lend itself well to this. I've been told that we won't have budget for food or drink but I have other contacts that I may able to convince to help sponsor the events. As I said, it's early days yet and I've only just started the formal process for sign-off and I'm hoping to have that sorted this week. I'll have a look around the theatre and meeting rooms to get a better idea of how many we can support.
On 31 January 2012 11:28, Nicholas H.Tollervey <nt...@ntoll.org> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Choosing the day/time of a dojo is always going to inconvenience > someone. I have a young family and weekends are precious. Obviously I > could make a Saturday dojo but not every month. > > If Ed is willing to provide a location along with free pizza and beer > (which is the usual package provided by a "sponsor") then I think it's > a cracking good idea! > > Actually, rather than run a dojo (which is quite a focussed affair) > why not run a hackathon? Self selecting teams can coalesce around a > problem area rather than specific problem and have 6 hours to produce > something before a show-and-tell. For example, running a hackathon > around the subject of "Living in London" (I'm making this up as I go > along, can't you tell..?) might produce tools for grabbing data, quick > and lightweight websites, data-analysis tools, cloud based APIs to > aggregate information or single use applications such as something > that sends you a text message if it's going to rain in London in the > next 24 hours... and so on. > > Now, *that* would be awesome and play to the extended period of time > we'd have at our disposal. > > What's the upper limit on numbers..? How are people fixed in February? > > Just throwing ideas around... ;-) > > N. > > On 31/01/12 11:00, Jonathan Hartley wrote: > > On 30/01/2012 23:58, Carles Pina i Estany wrote: > >> Hi, > >> > >> On Jan/30/2012, Tom Viner wrote: > >> > >>> I personally would really enjoy having a longer session to > >>> create more ambitious solutions on a weekend dojo. Although I > >>> wouldn't be able to attend every time. > >> I estimate that I would go 50% of the Python Dojo's that would > >> happen on weekends. > >> > > > > Personally, I could probably only make it 10% of the time at > > weekends. I much prefer a weeknight slot. > > > > Good luck to those of you who prefer it though, that shouldn't stop > > you. > > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ > > iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJPJ9BMAAoJEP0qBPaYQbb6li0IAKX3au2/NRAu4cMWMTczUYW3 > 5aVLqRnDyjkfq+O18kGklCFczNc7eT0fcLZdqgIJ9wNwTSC4wSQjrHp0AUfBJWat > wPI9R3E+vNIDt9wnA2fUzRsi/j6csIr5iSNPXruMpVxmqtfrDq33V5bSVu9P7BAw > OvLVxk+t8kt5KskbIFCm1heHnFWzf1E+3BBL++yEXogWPvc5Fp4auVLaLrRDo2NP > JdPctIKr6mh39N5E3aMaGVnqmR6RBmkHJv5VuqG3ENkAQvyiqLbX2Y0Kicu8Oc0K > EwJvuYb177edclrZe9SV4duc50rZIZaeE7AxgltPgb5OH+nFcuILE41G6VsmTB8= > =8nCS > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > _______________________________________________ > python-uk mailing list > python-uk@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-uk >
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