I'd rather open the Watir day into tracks, and invite speakers. The development is going to go on concurrently, and open spaces are a great place to talk about that.
The opportunity here, in my mind, is to attract people who having been using Watir for a long time, and actually need speaking experience as well as "outing" themselves. That helps us understand the community more, push for facetime on some people we don't know, but need some exposure. We can chat a bit more about it, but I'd love to give people the spotlight for a bit. As I said previously, I'm hoping that it's one big love fest. :) While it's fun to poke at each other, I really do see us as one big team solving the same issue. Where we plan for it doesn't matter that much to me. I'd like to see an open conf/Watir day with a CFP and then some plans for open spaces and lightning talks. The hallway track and open spaces may be more interesting for some, but don't discount the talks. -Charley On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 11:12 PM, Bret Pettichord <[email protected]> wrote: > My thought is that the Watir day would focus on the needs of the Watir > development team. > > 1. Start by reviewing current status and recent releases. Get everybody in > sync. > 2. Discuss directions, needs, objectives. > 3. Agree on a plan. > > We might also add some testimonials about how different people/organizations > are using Watir in order to clarify our situations and constraints. > > I guess the first decision we need to make is where to organize the Watir > day in more detail. Here (seconf google group) or the Watir Dev list? > > Bret > > On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 3:10 PM, Charley Baker <[email protected]> > wrote: >> >> I would love to have "synergy" between Selenium and Watir, and a lot >> of that is already happening with the web-driver bindings and cross >> communication. One of my standard slides is the comparison between >> Selenium and Watir, followed up with the next slide where I say in >> essence that we're definitely both in the same camp, solving the same >> problems and grappling with the same questions. >> >> One of the big advantages to tacking on a Watir day is that we do get >> to hang out, talk, code together and get people using one or the other >> tool in the same space. And a big thanks for setting this up in the >> first place. We need to figure out what's going on with the Watir day, >> logistics, talks, etc. I would love to have help from you, Simon, >> Patrick, etc who wants to be involved. It's all part of the same >> conference in my mind, not two separate cabals. :) >> >> Cheers, >> >> Charley >> >> >> On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 8:47 PM, Jason Huggins <[email protected]> wrote: >> > I'm overdue for asking this question: but how much/little do the Watir >> > folks want to be mentioned on the SeleniumConf website? I haven't done >> > much of anything on this topic for the lack of asking that question. >> > :-/ >> > >> > - Jason >> > >> > On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 1:52 PM, Charley Baker <[email protected]> >> > wrote: >> >> Yep, the space is reserved, speaker invites for SeConf have been sent >> >> out, now we need to spend some time and organize Watir day. I'm also >> >> assuming/hoping many of the Watir people will be attending SeConf - >> >> cross-pollination is a good thing. :) >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> Charley Baker >> >> Lead Developer, Watir, http://watir.com >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 2:38 PM, Željko Filipin >> >> <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 8:23 PM, Ashley Wilson <[email protected]> >> >>> wrote: >> >>>> The day is free - shall we confirm? >> >>> >> >>> Is Watir day confirmed for April 3rd? >> >>> >> >>> Željko >> >>> -- >> >>> watir.com - community manager >> >>> watirpodcast.com - host >> >>> testingpodcast.com - audio podcasts on software testing. all of them >> >>> >> >>> >> >> >> > > > > > -- > 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
