[Hackadelphia] Recap

[Josiah Kiehl]

That may well be the trick: just get started sooner.

Overall I don't feel it was a big issue, I just felt we'd just gotten
started by the time we packed up. :)

Josiah

On Sun, Jul 11, 2010 at 11:36 PM, Jeff Deville <jeffdeville at gmail.com>wrote:

> For my part, I thought the introductions were fine.  The problem for me w=
as
> that a lot of us showed up at 1.  The introductions didn't start til after
> 2.
>
> -Jeff
>
> On Jul 11, 2010, at 11:14 PM, Erik Hollensbe wrote:
>
> >
> > On Jul 11, 2010, at 10:57 PM, Chris Nehren wrote:
> >
> >>
> >> On Jul 11, 2010, at 10:00 PM, Josiah Kiehl wrote:
> >>
> >>> Think the only thing that can be improved is the time spent not
> hacking. ;)  Next time we should get down to coding a bit quicker.
> >>
> >> It was important to me to introduce everyone and give everyone a chance
> to talk about what they're doing. I want everyone to be on even footing, =
and
> splitting off into all our own projects sort of defeats that point. That
> said, next time round we can continue where we left off and have more time
> spent actually writing code and the like.
> >
> > Cliff notes for below: give everyone the tools they need to hit the
> ground running after a 15 minute introduction period, unless they feel li=
ke
> mingling longer.
> >
> > Aaaaand the long version:
> >
> > Right, but I can see the mindset of Josiah, and I believe Mark expressed
> an interest in getting started immediately (hence his deliberate late
> arrival), but I don't want to put words into his mouth.
> >
> > I think there's a solution that might make everyone happy -- being a pa=
rt
> of the introduction process is optional, or we keep introductions
> deliberately short and allow people to interact while hacking, killing two
> birds with one stone.
> >
> > I think this would actually be solved best by a pre-meeting project boa=
rd
> (on the interuntz) where people can do what we spent the first hour doing
> over the week / next two weeks figuring out what they want help on and/or
> figuring out what they want to work on.
> >
> > This boils the introduction down to, "I'm Joe, and I came here to help =
on
> X", and I think this would largely cull the problem of language barriers
> which I know kept a few people from contributing to certain projects today
> (e.g., learn what you can about topic $x between meetings).
> >
> > -Erik
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