Ed if you're feeling really adventurous you could throw a BarCamp! Its been a while since one has been done there: http://barcamp.org/w/page/401031/BarCampLondon4
Ross On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 11:37 AM, Ed Stafford < walter.staff...@carbonsixty.co.uk> wrote: > 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 >> > > > _______________________________________________ > python-uk mailing list > python-uk@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-uk > >
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