Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Foss4g2013] Code sprints at FOSS4G 2013

2012-10-18 Thread Barry Rowlingson
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
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Foss4g2013] Code sprints at FOSS4G 2013

2012-10-18 Thread Paolo Cavallini
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.

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Paolo Cavallini - Faunalia
www.faunalia.eu
Full contact details at www.faunalia.eu/pc
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Foss4g2013] Code sprints at FOSS4G 2013

2012-10-18 Thread Mateusz Loskot
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,
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