> * better gitjour
I'm working on it. Should have some goodies up on github as soon as catching up on work and life allows me to surface. Keep on eye of http://github.com/lachlanhardy/gitjour for the funk. (and, preferably, fix my nooby Ruby) > * 70 people too many I completely disagree. 70 people is only too many if you don't know them all. The first couple of camps we had a pattern that broke the ice, formed new groups and gave us all awesome inspiration to hack. We didn't have that this time. For future camps, I recommend we structure things a little more to shape the weekend. Sunday afternoon/evening/late night began to feel a lot more like Railscamp than the massive LAN party we'd been having until then. I say we go back to the stupid introductory ice-breaking activities that everybody thinks are kinda lame. They are. We know. But they *work*. You get to meet other cool people and learn what they're into. It's heaps more fun hacking with folks you don't meet with regularly cause it broadens just about everything you can learn from them / with them So bring back crazy ruby-oriented pizza making. Or Half-baked. Or some ruby and/or web quiz. Anything as long as everybody has to participate in mixed random teams that they don't get to pick. This can be introduced via the welcome to Railscamp and intro to the rules and facilities (which is also a nice way to make sure generous folks like Nigel don't spend an hour cleaning up after everyone on the first morning). So that should deal with breaking the ice, meeting new peeps and forming new groups. Then we need some inspiration: First thing. Blog the fuck out of railscamp. Talk about what you like about it, what you want to do there. What you want to build. Point folks to your code for existing projects or map out plans for new ones. We should set up some aggregration based on #railscamp to get your ideas to everybody (and your post-camp love after you get home!) Butchers paper/ whiteboards should be made available from the start of the camp for organising sessions for Saturday and Sunday (this can also get pimped in the welcome). But what I'd really love to see is lightning talks on the Friday night. Show off shizzle you've already done. Show off some half-finished project that you'd love to crack on with over the weekend. Show off a new framework or app. Anything really. The idea would be for as many folks as possible to roll through. 5 mins max - even down to 2-3 minutes. The more folks step up and show something, the more we know about each other and the more likely we are to find somebody/something cool that we want to hack with/on. We had this at the first railscamp with Tim's preso on Twatter. Everybody spent the rest of the weekend writing Camping apps. We had it at the second camp with Duke, and Tim's preso-cum-workshop on Git, and Dan asking people why they hadn't used Merb yet then helping them install 0.4(!). The third camp had the *jours and Duke (again!). And Twetter. And... The list goes on. If my agenda for Railscamp could be summarised easily, it would be this: 1. Meet awesome new friends. 2. Start grand crazy projects with them. 3. Demo sexy-delicious-awesomeness. 4. Profit! Just some stuff I've been thinking about since I turned to Tim at about 9pm on Sunday night after the presentations had been flowing thick and fast for nearly 7 hours and said: "Now, *this* is railscamp!" I'd like to add my congratulations to Radar and Richo, though. Fucking awesome camp, gentlemen. Big ups to all who helped out. And much love for everybody I met. I had a completely sensational time and learned a lot from all of you. Hopefully next time I can meet the rest of you (I think I missed at least 10 peeps), plus some new folks, and we can build something amazing! Lachlan Hardy --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby or Rails Oceania" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rails-oceania?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
