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
