Just to note, they are all happening. Moving Erik's Solr session will be part of the next program committee's meeting and will probably be moved.
On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 4:35 PM, Erik Hatcher <erikhatc...@mac.com> 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) > > 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
