From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff King Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] GitTogether 2011 - Oct 24th/25th Date: Wed, 7 Sep 2011 15:30:06 -0400 Message-ID: <20110907193006.GB13364@sigill.intra.peff.net> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Cc: Scott Chacon , git To: Shawn Pearce X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Sep 07 21:30:23 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1R1NpG-00005M-VF for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Wed, 07 Sep 2011 21:30:23 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755246Ab1IGTaO (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 Sep 2011 15:30:14 -0400 Received: from 99-108-226-0.lightspeed.iplsin.sbcglobal.net ([99.108.226.0]:44298 "EHLO peff.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753111Ab1IGTaN (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 Sep 2011 15:30:13 -0400 Received: (qmail 4997 invoked by uid 107); 7 Sep 2011 19:30:57 -0000 Received: from sigill.intra.peff.net (HELO sigill.intra.peff.net) (10.0.0.7) (smtp-auth username relayok, mechanism cram-md5) by peff.net (qpsmtpd/0.84) with ESMTPA; Wed, 07 Sep 2011 15:30:57 -0400 Received: by sigill.intra.peff.net (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Wed, 07 Sep 2011 15:30:06 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Wed, Sep 07, 2011 at 11:38:18AM -0700, Shawn O. Pearce wrote: > As we approach 50 people, does it makes sense to be able to break the > event down into 2 "tracks", and have 2 meeting spaces available? I > know a number of the folks on the attendee list are Gerrit Code Review > / Android sorts of shops and will want to discuss topics related to > that that aren't necessarily relevant to the GitHub users / Linux > kernel hacking folks that are also on the list. Being able to break > off some of those discussions might make the event more interesting > for everyone involved. I think that's reasonable, especially as we grow. However, one of the valuable things (for me, anyway) in previous GitTogethers is throwing all of these people together to some degree. I'm not terribly interested in day-to-day Gerrit issues, but sometimes the discussions start from some minor Gerrit annoyance, and we end up realizing that the right solution involves changes at a more fundamental layer, and all of git is better as a result. I'd hate to lose that developer/user interaction. Maybe we can be segmented for part of the conference, and then bring everybody together for other parts. I dunno. I guess that involves predicting which parts will be useful for everybody to be together. I assume we'll keep largely to the un-conference format, though, so these are issues that can be ironed out in the first hour as we see which topics people are interested in discussing. -Peff