Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Foss4g2013] Code sprints at FOSS4G 2013
So far most of the feedback seems to be favouring Sunday The LOC are going to be at Nottingham setting up on the Monday and running workshops on the Tuesday and Wednesday. If small to mid sized groups let us know in advance we should be able to find a room for them on either of these days. I am assuming that if we direct people to a room, give them internet access and drip feed them with caffeine, cookies and sandwiches they will sprint without any input from the LOC (who will have rather a lot on their minds by then) Cheers Steven Feldman m: +44 (0) 7958 924 101 about me: stevenfeldman t: @StevenFeldman skype: stevenfeldman2638 On 18 Oct 2012, at 16:17, Barry Rowlingson wrote: On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 9:39 AM, Steven Feldman shfeld...@gmail.com wrote: When do you want to run the code sprints? Our preference would be to provide facilities for the code sprints on Sunday 22nd but if there was a strong preference to go for the Monday we could try to secure space for that (not guaranteed but we could try) I put a few questions to the Qgis developers about this recently. The last Qgis developers meeting involved nearly 30 people for five days. I wonder if OSgeo projects are getting too big for one day to be enough time to do anything... Of course there is nothing to stop a team hacking for the duration of the conference, except as one of the Qgis devs mentioned, the talks might distract the developers! And nobody wants to pay to come to the conference if they are going to be sitting in the GeoCamp drinking beer and working on a project most of the time. Barry ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Foss4g2013] Code sprints at FOSS4G 2013
On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 9:39 AM, Steven Feldman shfeld...@gmail.com wrote: When do you want to run the code sprints? Our preference would be to provide facilities for the code sprints on Sunday 22nd but if there was a strong preference to go for the Monday we could try to secure space for that (not guaranteed but we could try) I put a few questions to the Qgis developers about this recently. The last Qgis developers meeting involved nearly 30 people for five days. I wonder if OSgeo projects are getting too big for one day to be enough time to do anything... Of course there is nothing to stop a team hacking for the duration of the conference, except as one of the Qgis devs mentioned, the talks might distract the developers! And nobody wants to pay to come to the conference if they are going to be sitting in the GeoCamp drinking beer and working on a project most of the time. Barry ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Foss4g2013] Code sprints at FOSS4G 2013
Il 18/10/2012 17:17, Barry Rowlingson ha scritto: might distract the developers! And nobody wants to pay to come to the conference if they are going to be sitting in the GeoCamp drinking beer and working on a project most of the time. Agreed, I do not think devs should pay to participate to a FOSS event. Business puts the money, devs the code. All the best. -- Paolo Cavallini - Faunalia www.faunalia.eu Full contact details at www.faunalia.eu/pc Nuovi corsi QGIS e PostGIS: http://www.faunalia.it/calendario ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Foss4g2013] Code sprints at FOSS4G 2013
On 18 October 2012 22:36, Paolo Cavallini cavall...@faunalia.it wrote: Il 18/10/2012 17:17, Barry Rowlingson ha scritto: might distract the developers! And nobody wants to pay to come to the conference if they are going to be sitting in the GeoCamp drinking beer and working on a project most of the time. Agreed, I do not think devs should pay to participate to a FOSS event. Business puts the money, devs the code. All the best. Quite an interesting idea, but how to approach it fairly? A formula based on number of commits or LOC contributed since last FOSS4G? It sounds like a kind of Shell loyalty programme for developers: 1 litre of fuel earns 1 point; get 25 points and you'll get free coffee ;) Best regards, -- Mateusz Loskot, http://mateusz.loskot.net ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
