From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jens Lehmann Subject: Re: The GitTogether Date: Sun, 29 Jul 2012 17:55:05 +0200 Message-ID: <50155CD9.6060702@web.de> References: <87k3xpe8bz.fsf@thomas.inf.ethz.ch> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Scott Chacon , git list , Jeff King , Junio C Hamano , Shawn Pearce To: Thomas Rast X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sun Jul 29 17:55:17 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1SvVpt-00086L-3Q for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Sun, 29 Jul 2012 17:55:17 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753267Ab2G2PzK (ORCPT ); Sun, 29 Jul 2012 11:55:10 -0400 Received: from mout.web.de ([212.227.17.12]:62802 "EHLO mout.web.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753228Ab2G2PzI (ORCPT ); Sun, 29 Jul 2012 11:55:08 -0400 Received: from [192.168.178.48] ([91.3.154.32]) by smtp.web.de (mrweb101) with ESMTPA (Nemesis) id 0MRU72-1TO4FG2gFk-00SyMv; Sun, 29 Jul 2012 17:55:06 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686 on x86_64; rv:14.0) Gecko/20120713 Thunderbird/14.0 In-Reply-To: <87k3xpe8bz.fsf@thomas.inf.ethz.ch> X-Provags-ID: V02:K0:JImyOWC5Y/8imv+xxAwu+iwJU47oi0VV6+9jY+X+N39 2WZmsxQbbKHWMswKUX+svVdsgfGyDPZpg6C4yOsdLLd2m3gTXl lbSs4cCvJJlGMiJmy5vqEEPqSqLu8YvwNRkE62arTicCgyi3w1 Y4xca52GncxM6jacck+005dKcDr7+6znRDskdlYofevDwsJbKg TNr4spzPxA24eoDNbQwVA== Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Am 27.07.2012 13:45, schrieb Thomas Rast: > Scott Chacon 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 ;-).