Hi all, I'm forwarding this email from Bret about some conversations we've had to this list. While many of the core Watir devs/community managers, etc are planning on coming out for SeConf, we also want to have a day where we focus on Watir development. As Bret mentions, the Sunday before looks like the best time for many of our devs who are coming from various continents to attend.
In spirit, this is similar to the way that the JRuby team piggybacked onto RubyConf '09 in SF. It's a good complimentary conference with a slightly different focus. The main question is, can we get the same space for the day before SeConf kicks off? I'm not sure who's working on the location logistics, but hopefully we can work together on setting this up. There are obviously other questions that we'll have to figure out - submissions, the format, cost, etc. I'd like to get the organizational part settled and then we can talk about that. Let me know if that makes sense or you have questions. Cheers, Charley Baker Lead Developer, Watir, http://watir.com ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Bret Pettichord <[email protected]> Date: Sat, Jan 1, 2011 at 10:31 AM Subject: Re: [Wtr-development] Watir day at SeConf To: Watir development <[email protected]> I've been chatting with Charley about the SeConf and I see that that will have two primary audiences. One will be the Selenium developers and the other will be Selenium users. Since it is in the mutual interest of both BrowserMob and SauceLabs, I think their will be a big push for presentations that will show people how to use Selenium and that they will be discouraging Watir material that might have the effect of putting doubts into the minds of people who might otherwise be disposed to go with Selenium. This is my guess, partly based on the dynamics of the principals. I don't want to fight this, but would like to take advantage of the fact that we'll have most of the Watir development team in one place. So rather than fight for space in the official SeConf conference for Watir-specific technical insidery stuff -- I would rather just set up something on the side. Sounds like Sunday April 3rd will be a good day for this. I would like to make this an open meeting to other Watir users and Selenium developers and users, but the Watir development team would set the agenda. Bret On Sat, Jan 1, 2011 at 7:30 AM, Simon Stewart <[email protected]> wrote: > > Any room for non-watir committers? > > Simon > > On Sat, Jan 1, 2011 at 5:13 AM, Bret Pettichord <[email protected]> wrote: > > Charley and I would would like to find a day during the SeConf week where > > the Watir developers can meet to discuss things that the Se Community may > > not care about. Or at least a half day. Can those of you who are attending > > from overseas or have already made travel plans please share what days would > > work best for you? > > > > Bret > > > > -- > > Bret Pettichord > > Lead Developer, Watir, www.watir.com > > > > Blog, www.io.com/~wazmo/blog > > Twitter, www.twitter.com/bpettichord > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Wtr-development mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/wtr-development > > > _______________________________________________ > Wtr-development mailing list > [email protected] > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/wtr-development -- Bret Pettichord Director, Watir Project, www.watir.com Blog, www.testingwithvision.com Twitter, www.twitter.com/bpettichord _______________________________________________ Wtr-development mailing list [email protected] http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/wtr-development _______________________________________________ Wtr-development mailing list [email protected] http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/wtr-development
