Yo yo. Bigs up all the SA peeps which made it happen, I had an awesome time.
I've been talking about the number of people and I don't think that it was necessarily too many just that I have too many friends there now to collaborate and even get to have beers with them all, and also you gotta scale the way you run things with the number of people there. People have always wanted to game at Railscamp, bzflag, UT or otherwise... and we've always wanted guitar hero... and we've always wanted places to chill-out and do serious hacking (I have memories of Lach, Dan and others in the other room last railscamp going hardcore whilst the rest of the camp was fooling around in the main room). Maybe you have to segregate spaces a little bit to let some good stuff happen in isolation... maybe rather than people sitting at the same desk all weekend we make sure everyone knows it's about floating around? Also the Sunday night demos were awesome, glad we started them then and not later (like last time). If we could have that kinda stuff interspersed across the weekend that'd be better. Also maybe we should keep the demos limited to stuff we did *at* Railscamp, make that a little more clear for those who didn't understand (I did like the steak knives though). Some more tools to help a room full of hackage would always be useful— gitorious works but is a bit clunky, the web-based gitjour will be great for discovery of projects etc and I'm sure there's a bunch of other stuff we could all pitch in and build before or at the camp. In regards to letting everyone know what hackery is going on, and helping those who want to get involved, maybe we have a big board called "Crazy Cool Projects" and "Crazy Cool People" were you can go put down the name of your project, and people can put their ichat/ twitter name if they're looking for something to hack on. I think as soon as you have something developed you can demo you should be able to take the floor and demo what you built, not wait til Sunday. Maybe some "Rules of Railscamp" would be awesome again. Stuff like cleaning up (though that seemed to go alright), how to mix gaming/ coding, etc. Some people had mixed opinions about the food but for a *camp* I personally found it spot on. All in all I had an awesome time and can't wait til the next one! -- tim --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
