Nathaniel Smith wrote:
http://venge.net/monotone/wiki/MtnSummit suggests significant interest in doing this, so, no time like the present... let's see if we can figure out any more details.Length: this is perhaps the most important question. How _long_ should this thing be? Two options that come to mind: 2-3 days: fits in a weekend, probably easier for peopple to find the time (get leave from work, etc.), probably easier to find a space (e.g., Bar Camps seem quite able to find businesses that are happy to host random hackers for a weekend; probably not so much during the week when they want to, you know, use their offices to get work done). OTOH, it is sort of dumb to cross the Pacific for a 2 day event -- you spend more time in airplanes than actually in the event! 6-7 days: Probably one would organize this as 2.5-3 days of sprint, then a day off to hang out/recuperate/let ideas gel, then another 2.5-3 days of sprint. Might still be too long to maintain focus (anyone who's actually done sprints have any intuition here?), and potentially harder for people to attend and harder to find a space to work in. (If arranged in two pieces, people who are shorter on time could potentially attend only the first or second half.) There are also intermediate options, like, for instance -- 4-5 days! But that might to too long to go straight through, but not long enough to take a break. Or maybe I'm just crazy and this break idea is silly.
I don't think I'd do more than 2-3 days. I'd guess that there's not much sleep to have during that time. ;)
It would be cool to have a life video/sound setup. Though it's 9 hours to west coast US...
German Summit:Hannover kind of presents itself. And Dirk Hillbrecht already offered hosting. Perfect! Unfortunately, there are no public holidays in Jan/Feb, so no long weekend.
Cheers, -- Ulf
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