[PLUG-Devel] Desert Code Camp next month

[Alan Dayley]

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Darrin Chandler wrote:
> 
> I looked at it a week or two ago and they listed *tons* of FS/OSS stuff,
> most with no presenter (as in they had nothing, really). Also, they had
> the date but no starting or ending times, so I don't know if it started
> in the morning and ran all day into the evening, or if it was 4 hours in
> the middle of the day, or what.
> 
> If you're getting the impression I'm underwhelmed then you'd be right. I
> understand some people went to the last one and it was ok. So tell me
> why I should care about this when they obviously don't (at least didn't)
> have their act together. I'm only being this critical because it's being
> actively promoted, and then you look at their site and it had little
> actual info. If they were in the "call for presenters" or "gauging
> interest" stages I'd be a lot more forgiving.
> 
> Anyway, someone talk me out of my bad attitude about this. ;)

Interesting that I had not noticed the lack of a schedule.

The last time it was an all day event with a lunch break.  They had a
sponsor pay for sack lunches for everyone.

They work the schedule a bit strange or ad hoc, if you will.  People can
suggest topics which people then eventually sign up to teach.  If no one
signs up to teach the suggested topic, it falls off the list.  Then a
week or so before the day they pull together the classes with teachers,
the number of people that signed up to attend and the sizes of the
available rooms.  From this, the schedule and class times fall out.

That is the way I remember watching it work last time, in May.  Perhaps
Lorin, one of the organizers, will step in here and correct me on
anything I got wrong.

I see the event as beneficial in two ways:
1. We developers can get education and exposure to technology for no cost.
2. We in the FS/OSS community can support our preferred Free and Open
technologies by attending or teaching classes that focus on these
technologies.

Alan
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