Jens Lehmann venit, vidit, dixit 29.07.2012 17:55: > 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 Winter term classes start 10/15. Before 10/15 it will be easier to book university rooms if we need that. >> >> 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. Same. Do we have contacts regarding (un)conference rooms in Berlin already? I might be able to ask around. > >>> 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