[PLUG-Devel] Desert Code Camp next month

[Lorin Thwaits]

Alan -- you're 100% correct.  And thanks for putting in a good word.

-Lorin


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From: "Alan Dayley" <alandd at consultpros.com>
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Sent: Wednesday, September 27, 2006 6:37 PM
Subject: Re: [PLUG-Devel] Desert Code Camp next month


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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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