[forge-dev] Forge at the Devoxx 2012 Hackergarten

[Lincoln Baxter, III]

Sure, I think a page on the website is a great idea - I'll take care of it.
What exactly would you like me to put on there?

We do have a calendar on the site already, but it only shows the current
month, so we can definitely add a list on the hackergarden page, but we
should also add it to the events.

~Lincoln

On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 2:14 AM, Paul Bakker <paul.bakker.nl at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi Dan,
>
> I'm giving a hands-on lab on Tuesday 9.30-12.30 as well, so I can only
> join part of the day. Happy to help in the afternoon though.
>
> For ideas to hack on we could also come up with new features for the
> Arquillian plugin. There are plenty of people interested in Arquillian and
> there is a lot more the plugin could do (e.g. drone support).
>
> Paul
>
>
> On Oct 10, 2012, at 7:22 , Dan Allen <dan.j.allen at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Now that JavaOne has wrapped up, time to jump back into planning for the
> Devoxx event.
>
> On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 9:27 AM, Lincoln Baxter, III <
> lincolnbaxter at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hey guys!
>>
>> This is great. I won't be at Devoxx this year (sorry Dan! I'm breaking
>> tradition!) But next year I should be back on the bandwagon. It was too
>> much turbulence.
>>
>
> Trust me, I understand. Like sailors on a ship, we trade off to keep the
> boat on course :)
>
>
>>
>> Let me know how I can help for this event, though, and when it will be,
>> in case you want me to lurk in any channels or hangouts to help folks. Last
>> year the Hackergaarden kind of flopped for Forge because we didn't have
>> much promotion, and not much interest from the crowd (they all wanted to
>> hack on Scala or something.)
>>
>
> Last year we kind of just walked into it. This year, we are going in big.
> The Red Hat event team will be helping to promote the event before and
> during Devoxx. Of course, we should use any available channel we have to
> communicate that this is going down.
>
> Date: Tuesday, Nov 13, 9:30 AM - 4:30 PM
> Link: http://lanyrd.com/2012/devoxx/syzdq/
>
> The first step is identifying who will serve as the point person at the
> event for Forge. Koen seems to be the man for the job. Koen, this won't
> conflict with your talks. I'm also hoping that Paul will be willing to
> participate.
>
> My research shows that there are three keys to making this a successful
> event:
>
> 1. Go for "Minimum viable pull request", then iterate
>   - An agile approach (1 - 2 hour sprints) works well because it keeps
> people focused on a goal and in sync
> 2. Be specific. Have a list of achievable goals from which people can
> select or from which to build their own ideas.
> 3. Prepare a working environment or resources in advance.
>   - I plan to have a file server there where we can stick downloads for
> local copying. Ray will also have a bunch of JBoss Way-related media
>
> At the end of the day, each group working on a hack will briefly present
> the results (think lightning talk). The focus of that short presentation
> should be on the idea, not necessarily the exact state of the code. In
> other words, the point of the hackfest is to catalyze ideas and get people
> participating, not necessarily to deliver a release (but certainly we won't
> discourage it).
>
> The other action item that we need from this thread is a wiki / web page
> dedicated for the hackfest that has:
>
> - Event info (for organic searches)
> - Idea list (perhaps pulled from JIRA and augmented with supplemental
> ideas)
> - How to setup environment for hacking on Forge or plugins (might just be
> links to different resources, but that's fine, still important)
>
> Lincoln, can you create a page on the forge site called hackfest or
> hackathon and that way we can reuse the page each time there is a hackfest
> somewhere? For the event info, we can just have a bullet list schedule of
> upcoming hackfests (just one to start with). Then we can start populating
> it with the information I've suggested and any other contributions.
>
> -Dan
>
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