On Mon, Jun 03, 2013 at 12:49:23PM -0400, Jaroslav Reznik wrote:
> - Maybe in the future we could separate the hackfests into a
separate
> section. Hackfests where the organizer would be attending flock would
> have their hackfests accepted to the schedule. Hackfests where the
> hackfest organizer needed sponsorship money to attend could be vetted to
> determine whether we would fund them or not.
Agreed, but space has to be considered too. Maybe one room with no schedule
could help to meet for the rest of hackfest with not as many votes to be
scheduled.
Space is important but... with hackfests, I don't think having a lot of
space is as important as having the right sort of space.
The hackfest I thought was most productive was when we rented The State Club
at NCSU. For that, we had a single room but it was a large room with
movable tables. That allowed us to break up into the appropriate groups as
we needed to and it let us run a few yards to tap someone on the shoulder
too. We haven't managed to replicate that since but I'm still hoping ;-)
> * Many of the similar sessions are talks about how we might want
to change
> Fedora. I don't think the talk format is going to serve us well here as
> we're going to have different people giving competing proposals in
> different time slots throughout the conference with potentially disjoint
> attendees. It seems like it would be better to merge these types of
> future-planning into a one-day "hackfest" session. People could each
be
> given 15-30 minutes to present a proposal for the future of Fedora
> (hopefully with the proposal online in advance so that people could
> consolidate if their proposal had significant overlap with someone
> else's). At the end of the presentations, the attendees could try and
> come to consensus on some of the changes to make a single proposal or at
> least, narrow the field a bit. This could then be presented to the
> conference as a whole (and mailing lists after the conference) as
> a proposal or starting point for discussion about the future.
That's why I like the idea of recap every morning (or even more often?) to
get in sync.
<nod> I've been reading the recap thread. although I kinda like the
idea
of a recap, I don't think we've set up this conference to do a good recap at
the very end: See what I wrote here about a Day N wrap up:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Toshio/I_dream_of_conference#Purely_d...
That's something we could change if we say next time that the end of the
conference is more important than the beginning :-).
I don't really like a recap every day either as we're more interested in the
proposals that come out at the end and what work remains to be done than
knowing what ideas are being discussed in the middle of the conference.
There's some other reasons I like the outline of my idea above better than
a recap at the end... but I think those comments will fit in better in the
context of spot's email. I'll reply there.
-Toshio