>> What about space? Will there be some place at the venue we can use, or do >> we need to book a conference room at someone's hotel? >For the Apache Hackathon a separate (large) room already will be available, >including free wifi and lots of tables to sit around and with plenty of >powerplugs too. > >Usually this leads to a great and organic chaos where everyone is just hoping >around, moving from table to table to sit and work together on whatever they >want. It definitely is non-organized, and lot of fun :)
Sounds great -- I propose we hold Rave hackathons on both Monday and Tuesday. >So, if we want to tackle certain goals, its something we/everyone has to >"organize" themselves, upfront through email or simply at hoc while we're >there. I think we should come up with a list of goals for the hackathons, but we should wait until we get closer to the event to determine what those goals will be. >> >>> >>> The event Sander is looking at is a MeetUp in the evening. The >>> objectives of which need to be defined. Sander -- what day are you looking at for the meetup? I'd like to propose Wednesday (which is also the day the Rave session is scheduled). Does that work for others? Please let us know if there is anything we can do to help get this event organized/scheduled. >>>> Is a hackathon actually an organized event, or do people just sort of >>>> find each other and start hacking? >>> >>> The hackathon is whatever you want it to be. I've always the most >>> productive are to have a set of specific goals and to tackle them at >>> the event. >> >> +1 We can pull together a few issues that would benefit from high-bandwith >> collaboration. We just need to make sure decisions, etc are done on the >> mailing list. >The free Apache wifi available at the Hackathon usually is of pretty good >quality and bandwith. And if there a problems, you'll find many of the infra >team members present in person to help resolve them :) > >> >>> However, they are free-form and nobody is required to >>> engage. >>> >>> Ross >>
