From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Rast Subject: Re: The GitTogether Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2012 13:45:20 +0200 Message-ID: <87k3xpe8bz.fsf@thomas.inf.ethz.ch> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Cc: git list , Jeff King , Junio C Hamano , Shawn Pearce To: Scott Chacon X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri Jul 27 13:45:31 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 1Suiz2-0007Ck-JM for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Fri, 27 Jul 2012 13:45:28 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752077Ab2G0LpX (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 Jul 2012 07:45:23 -0400 Received: from edge20.ethz.ch ([82.130.99.26]:1471 "EHLO edge20.ethz.ch" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751543Ab2G0LpW (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 Jul 2012 07:45:22 -0400 Received: from CAS11.d.ethz.ch (172.31.38.211) by edge20.ethz.ch (82.130.99.26) with Microsoft SMTP Server (TLS) id 14.2.298.4; Fri, 27 Jul 2012 13:45:21 +0200 Received: from thomas.inf.ethz.ch.ethz.ch (129.132.153.233) by CAS11.d.ethz.ch (172.31.38.211) with Microsoft SMTP Server (TLS) id 14.2.298.4; Fri, 27 Jul 2012 13:45:20 +0200 In-Reply-To: (Scott Chacon's message of "Thu, 26 Jul 2012 15:28:00 -0700") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.3 (gnu/linux) X-Originating-IP: [129.132.153.233] Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: 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. > 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. 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? -- Thomas Rast trast@{inf,student}.ethz.ch