[ANNOUNCE] GitTogether 2011 - Oct 24th/25th

[ANNOUNCE] GitTogether 2011 - Oct 24th/25th

[Shawn Pearce]

Google is once again hosting a 2 day user/developer conference for Git
users and developers to get together, share experiences, and hack on
interesting features. This event will be held October 24th and 25th at
Google's headquarters in Mountain View, CA.

More details along with sign-up (as space is limited) can be found on the wiki:

  https://git.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/GitTogether11

-- 
Shawn.

Re: [ANNOUNCE] GitTogether 2011 - Oct 24th/25th

[Scott Chacon]

Hey,

On Mon, Sep 5, 2011 at 12:56 PM, Shawn Pearce <spearce@spearce.org> wrote:
> Google is once again hosting a 2 day user/developer conference for Git
> users and developers to get together, share experiences, and hack on
> interesting features. This event will be held October 24th and 25th at
> Google's headquarters in Mountain View, CA.
>
> More details along with sign-up (as space is limited) can be found on the wiki:
>
>  https://git.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/GitTogether11

It's been like 2 days and we're already overflowing.  I've also
already heard people say they didn't sign up because it was full.
This is unacceptable.  I want to drink with all of you guys.

Shawn, if you can't get a bigger venue at Google, we'll rent a meeting
space either at the hotel that most of the mentors are staying at or a
nearby one.  I'm looking into spaces that will accomodate closer to 50
people and will serve us beer. :)

So, everybody that wants to come just sign up and we'll make sure
there is room for everyone.  Also, if any regular Git contributors
need help with flights or lodging, please let me know and we'll see
what we can do to help.

Thanks,
Scott

Re: [ANNOUNCE] GitTogether 2011 - Oct 24th/25th

[Shawn Pearce]

On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 10:11, Scott Chacon <schacon@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 5, 2011 at 12:56 PM, Shawn Pearce <spearce@spearce.org> wrote:
>> Google is once again hosting a 2 day user/developer conference for Git
>> users and developers to get together, share experiences, and hack on
>> interesting features. This event will be held October 24th and 25th at
>> Google's headquarters in Mountain View, CA.
>>
>> More details along with sign-up (as space is limited) can be found on the wiki:
>>
>>  https://git.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/GitTogether11
>
> It's been like 2 days and we're already overflowing.  I've also
> already heard people say they didn't sign up because it was full.
> This is unacceptable.  I want to drink with all of you guys.

Indeed!  Clearly I didn't really expect this big of a response this year.

> Shawn, if you can't get a bigger venue at Google, we'll rent a meeting
> space either at the hotel that most of the mentors are staying at or a
> nearby one.

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.

-- 
Shawn.

Re: [ANNOUNCE] GitTogether 2011 - Oct 24th/25th

[Jeff King]

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

Re: [ANNOUNCE] GitTogether 2011 - Oct 24th/25th

[Scott Chacon]

Hey,

On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 7:30 PM, Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:
> 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.

Yeah, I think it would be best to have one track, but have breakout
periods where people can work on stuff together or have smaller
conversations, or even have smaller rooms that people can go into to
work for a while.

I really want to have one track though - I'm personally interested in
everything.  I want to know how Gerrit is working these days and
different workflows and stuff.  I think we have enough time where even
with 50 or 60 people we could have everyone who wanted to speak (which
isn't going to be everybody) have a chance without being too crazy.

Scott

Re: [ANNOUNCE] GitTogether 2011 - Oct 24th/25th

[Shawn Pearce]

On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 13:44, Scott Chacon <schacon@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 7:30 PM, Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:
>> 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 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.
>>
>> 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.
>
> Yeah, I think it would be best to have one track, but have breakout
> periods where people can work on stuff together or have smaller
> conversations, or even have smaller rooms that people can go into to
> work for a while.

Right now we are looking for new space on the Google campus that would
allow us to get everyone in 1 room together, but also offer some
break-out space. More details as soon as I know. :-)

I'd like to keep it still somewhat unconferencey. Maybe do the morning
before lunch with everyone together and the topics that have the most
interest, and the afternoons for more breakout style smaller
discussions, especially if a subgroup identifies with something from
the morning and they want to purse that a little bit more in person.

-- 
Shawn.

Re: [ANNOUNCE] GitTogether 2011 - Oct 24th/25th

[Junio C Hamano]

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

> 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.

Same here, as I have been meaning to gauge interests from non-Gerrit
people on issues identified in Gerrit land (e.g. expand-refs).

> 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.

Also we would need to predict what parts we will have to begin with ;-).

Re: [ANNOUNCE] GitTogether 2011 - Oct 24th/25th

[Shawn Pearce]

On Mon, Sep 5, 2011 at 12:56, Shawn Pearce <spearce@spearce.org> wrote:
> Google is once again hosting a 2 day user/developer conference for Git
> users and developers to get together, share experiences, and hack on
> interesting features. This event will be held October 24th and 25th at
> Google's headquarters in Mountain View, CA.
>
> More details along with sign-up (as space is limited) can be found on the wiki:
>
>  https://git.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/GitTogether11

Lets try this one more time. Google has found us a much bigger space.
We can now host a lot more people. :-)

Since git.wiki.kernel.org is having issues, I've moved the sign-up list:

  https://docs.google.com/a/google.com/spreadsheet/embeddedform?formkey=dGVTN3M1ZnpTalVFSkVhUUJyRE5mQWc6MQ&ndplr=1

Please re-register, and be sure to join the mailing list.

-- 
Shawn.