We can have the Solr session when and wherever! :) Organizers - feel free to move it however it fits best.
Related: With all of those pre-conferences, it looks like there'll need to be 6 rooms but the page says 4 (admittedly 4+ it says) Erik On Nov 28, 2012, at 16:23 , Bess Sadler wrote: > On Nov 28, 2012, at 1:04 PM, Shaun Ellis <sha...@princeton.edu> wrote: > >> In that respect, I would suggest the preconference hackfests/workshops that >> involve some kind of pair programming with experienced/inexperienced >> hackers, which could follow up into a mentor relationship outside of the >> conference. I do like the idea of mentor/mentee speed-dating to align >> interests, but in this sense, the workshop/hackfest you sign up for kind of >> does that for you (assuming all the preconference proposals[1] are actually >> going to happen). >> >> [1] http://wiki.code4lib.org/index.php/2013_preconference_proposals >> >> -Shaun > > My understanding is that all of the pre-conference proposals are going to > happen (note to self: ask Erik Hatcher whether the evening solr session could > happen at a bar somewhere). The RailsBridge workshop in particular is aimed > at folks who are new to Rails and perhaps new to programming in general, and > RailsBridge as a thing was started as a way to bring more women into tech. If > anyone is interested in helping out at the RailsBridge session, or at the > Blacklight-tailored-for-RailsBridge session in the afternoon, please join us! > Workshops like this can never have too many people walking the room to help > out, and if we had enough experienced folks, this would be a great > opportunity for pair programming and meeting potential mentors. > > Bess