Am 27.07.2012 13:45, schrieb Thomas Rast: > Scott Chacon <schacon@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > >> GitHub would like to volunteer to organize and pay for these events >> this year. I would like to hold the developer-centric one in Berlin >> in early October > > Yay, Berlin! I would be glad to join there; I would probably not have > the time and resources to travel to SF this year. Same here. >> For those of you who *have* been to a GitTogether, what did you find >> useful and/or useless about it? What did you get out of it and would >> like to see again? For those of you who have never been, what do you >> think would be useful? I was thinking for both of them to have a >> combination of short prepared talks, lightning/unconference style >> talks and general discussion / breakout sessions. > > I was at the 2010 GitTogether in Mountain View. I really liked the > unconference format, and the way Shawn and Junio used it: just using the > topic stickers as a sort of todo-list, not actually fixing any schedule > in advance. Oddly enough we also managed to avoid the usual consequence > of open-ended discussions: getting stuck endlessly on an absolutely > insignificant point. Yup, the unconference format with both common and breakout sessions worked really well. > I think the discussions were very productive. I would love to do more > hacking than we managed in 2010, but I realize that this is not possible > if we just meet for 2-3 days. Perhaps one option would be to plan for > 1-2 days of hacking after the discussion rounds, so that the interested > people can stay a bit longer? I really like that idea and would vote for 3-4 days (maybe including a weekend for those of us who have to take a leave from work ;-). -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html