Here is what I suggest : 1) We break for a day after the main conference on Thursday 3rd November. 2) We start Hackfest in two separate nearby rooms one for teaching / getting started sessions the other room for experienced developers to hack together at peace. The experienced developers take breaks turn by turn to deliver sessions / guidance in the first room. This goes on for two days Friday 4th November and Saturday 5th November. Experienced developers who can not be physically present but would still like to participate in the hackfest, we will try to accommodate through video conferencing. Frankly I don't know how thats gonna work for hacking together, but atleast they can deliver some guidance / tips to the newbies. End of day two of hackfest i.e. on Saturday 5th November, the developers who can not stay more can leave but they would still have had two days of hacking together. 3) Those developers who can stay more are free to continue hacking again from Monday 7th November for as long as they want. I am sure we will find a place for them to work for as long as it takes. Hi, How does that sound? My fear is that most of the devs will flight back during the week-end if 3) is not announced/organised. We must propose something very clearly, not just say "stay as long as you want". That's also a must-have for ppl that have a boss and must argue that
Le 28/03/2011 12:45, Koustubha Kale a écrit : they must stay for one more week. For example, I think Katrin will have some difficulties to argue & convince her boss ! I completely agree that we need a fixed schedule, but IMHO its for you
On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 5:06 PM, Paul Poulain <paul.poulain@biblibre.com> wrote: people i.e. Koha developers to propose how many days you need. I will try and arrange for facilities.
Le 29/03/2011 13:56, Koustubha Kale a écrit : thread back ... I spoke with kmkale about the hackfest. We have no alternative option for the hackfest: the week before the main conference is a holiday week in india, so, everything closed. The hackfest *must* be after the main conf. As the main conf ends on wed, the best option we see is: * thursday => break * friday -> tuesday (so *including sunday*) hackfest. * as for previous hackfest, any attendee is free to leave when needed. I like the idea of having 2 separate rooms dedicated to differents things (training, hacking,...) Does anyone have another idea/suggestion ? -- Paul POULAIN http://www.biblibre.com Expert en Logiciels Libres pour l'info-doc Tel : (33) 4 91 81 35 08