Hi Cocoon-dev,
Below is a summary of ideas that I received on my first GT2006 email.
I'm quite surprised that some of them actually suggest to skip the public
talks, or at least to focus
even stronger on the Hackaton.
Also, I'm suprised that I got *no* response from the cocoon-users list (naive
as I am :) ).
I'm a little bit worried that the Cocoon GetTogether is becoming too much of a
Cocoon DEV-Together...
Wouldn't it be good from a community point of view if we open up a little and
target 1 whole day to
the cocoon-users? This is something I could ask the Users list. Hopefully we
can then lower the barrier
for people to come to the GetTogether and get involved in Cocoon. I think we
could use the GetTogether much
more as a "marketing" event for Cocoon. Pretty much all of the Cocoon core
developers show up - why not
do shorter, flashier presentations of what you can achieve with Cocoon, right
from the core developers??
Add 2 days of Hackaton, with more informal in-depth talks as last year's Cocoon
internals.
Apart from all that, I've been so free to make a reservation at the Felix
Meritis venue where we held the
Hackaton last year. For three whole days:
Monday 2nd, Tuesday 3rd and Wednesday 4th of October, from 9AM to 11PM :)
This is by no means definitive! But I think Felix Meritis had a good vibe (more
like the Ghent venue!).
I've reserved both the Hackaton "Moshpit" and the really nice "Zuilenzaal",
which can hold up to 100-200
people, depending on the setting. This makes us much more flexible. It would
even be an option to
rent both rooms during the Talks day, so we end up with a three day hackaton +
public talks :)
Let me know what you think!
-- Arjé
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Helma van der Linden:
- Could help
- Prefers 2 days hackaton again.
- I had the impression that the [extra?] Hackathon day moved Cocoon much
more forward than a
single 'First Friday'
Andrew Savory:
- Happy to help
- Rome, Milan, Australia, London, but has no objections against Ghent or
Amsterdam again
- I felt a little wiped-out by the third day last year. But if it's only
two days, an
early start to the hackathon is a must
- I think we could explore hiring the hackathon venue later in the evening
and doing
a proper beer-n-pizza event
Reinhard Poetz:
- Amsterdam is a really great town and there is a direct flight from Vienna
- October is fine
- at least two days for a hackathon and one day with public sessions;
thinking more about it, a
three days hackathon would be even better. I know that not everybody
wants to invest 3 days
just for doing programming stuff, but having a location would be great
for those (like me)
that would want..
Marcus Crafter:
- On Australia: Top idea - perhaps somewhere near the beach:
http://www.whitsundaytourism.com/ :)
Bertrand Delacretaz:
- Why not repeat Amsterdam, very convenient in terms of flights from many
places
- October was good
- Two days is fine IMHO, but I'd suggest a two-days Hackathon including
talks
- Having just a Hackathon, with more or less improvised talks, might be
cool and much easier to
organize. People could sign up on site to give a talk while we're there,
in an informal way.
- most information-rich time was the discussion of Cocoon internals
- The "public talks" day is also good, but such talks can also happen at
ApacheCon
- Venue should stay open (including Internet connection ;-) much longer
than last time: 9AM to 10PM
Sylvain Wallez:
- repeat Amsterdam
- October was good
- public talks: it makes sense to showcase and promote Cocoon at
ApacheCon, reaching a more
diverse audience [instead of the Cocoon GT]
Ralph Goers:
- proposes that it be done on the tutorial days [of the ApacheCon US]:
Monday and Tuesday.
- proposes that it be held either at the same site as ApacheCon US, or
somewhere close by.
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