On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 04:35:59PM -0500, Erik Hatcher wrote: > 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)
Finding rooms is _NOT_ going to be a problem at all. We will lock them down once we have a better sense of level of interest. All this will happen very rapidly next month I wager. ./fxk > > 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 > -- Blore's Razor: Given a choice between two theories, take the one which is funnier.
