[Inpycon] Development Sprints

[Mrinmoy Das]

+1 for development sprints.

Mrinmoy Das
http://goromlagche.in/

On Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 12:45 PM, Bibhas <me at bibhas.in> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> As someone pointed out earlier and I also think that we don't have enough
> activities at PyCon to engage newer developer. It's kind of just people
> coming to venue, sitting at the audis all day long and going home with some
> points that they might even forget in couple of days.
>
> I think a development sprint is a great way to get people started
> programming and contributing and networking. Like it's done in most PyCons,
> after the conf is over, they take 2-5 days and organize dev sprints that's
> open for everybody. I know we might not have budget for that many extra
> days, but we have a whole floor(if we go for NIMHANS again) lying unused
> for 3 whole days. We can throw in some tables, chairs, mattresses and it
> could make a great dev sprint spot. This will make the conference more
> engaging for the participants. It'd have been perfect if we could get an
> extra day and experiment for a year. But _if_ that's not possible, can we
> do it within the conf days?
>
> Thanks,
> Bibhas
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