Le 26/03/2011 05:44, Koustubha Kale a écrit :
So is there a consensus emerging here about splitting the hackfest and running in parallel? About splitting yes, about running in parallel, i'm still not convinced. Let me explain My main concern here is: if we run in parallel will put more pressure on experienced developers: we can't be at the same time teaching & hacking. So I'm afraid the success will heavily depend on how many experienced devs there will be ! And I think/suspect that this number won't be so high... I'm happy to teach ppl, but hacking together is invaluable too. I don't want to miss one part.
I've another concern: having some rest. In USA, we didn't stop at all. Same in NZ. In France, we had a full week-end for visiting (well, not me, as I was at home), and started the hackfest on monday morning, highly motivated & rested.
If yes, what days and dates? If we take a break on Thursday 3rd November, then we get Friday 4th November and may be we can work through the weekend, so that everyone can get back sooner OR we can break for weekend and continue from Monday 7th??? I think trying to concentrate everything on a single week is a mistake. We had better resting/visiting during the week-end and starting on monday. The idea of thursday break friday/saturday teaching, sunday break, mon->wed hacking sounds really a good idea to me: will let us have some rest to be efficient for work phases.
Is it an option to have the conference finish on friday, week-end resting, then a full week of teaching/hacking ? (was what we did in France in 2006) my 2cts -- Paul POULAIN http://www.biblibre.com Expert en Logiciels Libres pour l'info-doc Tel : (33) 4 91 81 35 08