[Inpycon] Development Sprints

[Bibhas]

On 10/15/2014 01:03 PM, Vaibhav Tulsyan wrote:
> Is it possible that the attendees form teams at the conference and 
> start off new projects there, building minimal working prototypes by 
> the last day? The projects that start off at PyCon can be then 
> continued further as full-fledged projects.

It's entirely upto the participants, right? We cannot force them to 
start projects. We try to encourage conversations among participants and 
can only hope that that leads somewhere. And I'm kind of against having 
something like 48 hours hackathon at PyCon. That takes people's mind 
away from the conference and sessions.

BTW, -1 for top posting. Read Kushal's post on the other thread.

>
> On Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 12:55 PM, Noufal Ibrahim KV 
> <noufal at nibrahim.net.in <mailto:noufal at nibrahim.net.in>> wrote:
>
>     On Wed, Oct 15 2014, Bibhas wrote:
>
>     [...]
>
>     > 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?
>
>     [...]
>
>     Would it make sense to conduct a one day "dev sprint" kind of program
>     distinct from PyCon at a smaller venue in say, a few months?
>
>     --
>     Cordially,
>     Noufal
>     http://nibrahim.net.in
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