Ed if you're feeling really adventurous you could throw a BarCamp! Its been a while since one has been done there: <a href="http://barcamp.org/w/page/401031/BarCampLondon4">http://barcamp.org/w/page/401031/BarCampLondon4</a><br>
<br>Ross<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 11:37 AM, Ed Stafford <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:walter.stafford@carbonsixty.co.uk">walter.stafford@carbonsixty.co.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
I like the idea of a hackathon and the venue would lend itself well to this. I've been told that we won't have budget for food or drink but I have other contacts that I may able to convince to help sponsor the events. As I said, it's early days yet and I've only just started the formal process for sign-off and I'm hoping to have that sorted this week. I'll have a look around the theatre and meeting rooms to get a better idea of how many we can support.<div class="HOEnZb">
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<br><div class="gmail_quote">On 31 January 2012 11:28, Nicholas H.Tollervey <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ntoll@ntoll.org" target="_blank">ntoll@ntoll.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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Choosing the day/time of a dojo is always going to inconvenience<br>
someone. I have a young family and weekends are precious. Obviously I<br>
could make a Saturday dojo but not every month.<br>
<br>
If Ed is willing to provide a location along with free pizza and beer<br>
(which is the usual package provided by a "sponsor") then I think it's<br>
a cracking good idea!<br>
<br>
Actually, rather than run a dojo (which is quite a focussed affair)<br>
why not run a hackathon? Self selecting teams can coalesce around a<br>
problem area rather than specific problem and have 6 hours to produce<br>
something before a show-and-tell. For example, running a hackathon<br>
around the subject of "Living in London" (I'm making this up as I go<br>
along, can't you tell..?) might produce tools for grabbing data, quick<br>
and lightweight websites, data-analysis tools, cloud based APIs to<br>
aggregate information or single use applications such as something<br>
that sends you a text message if it's going to rain in London in the<br>
next 24 hours... and so on.<br>
<br>
Now, *that* would be awesome and play to the extended period of time<br>
we'd have at our disposal.<br>
<br>
What's the upper limit on numbers..? How are people fixed in February?<br>
<br>
Just throwing ideas around... ;-)<br>
<br>
N.<br>
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On 31/01/12 11:00, Jonathan Hartley wrote:<br>
> On 30/01/2012 23:58, Carles Pina i Estany wrote:<br>
>> Hi,<br>
>><br>
>> On Jan/30/2012, Tom Viner wrote:<br>
>><br>
>>> I personally would really enjoy having a longer session to<br>
>>> create more ambitious solutions on a weekend dojo. Although I<br>
>>> wouldn't be able to attend every time.<br>
>> I estimate that I would go 50% of the Python Dojo's that would<br>
>> happen on weekends.<br>
>><br>
><br>
> Personally, I could probably only make it 10% of the time at<br>
> weekends. I much prefer a weeknight slot.<br>
><br>
> Good luck to those of you who prefer it though, that shouldn't stop<br>
> you.<br>
><br>
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