Re: My report from Debian Med sprint 1.+2. February 2014 in Stonehaven
Hi Steffen,
On Tue, Feb 04, 2014 at 11:32:17PM +0100, "Steffen Möller" wrote:
>
> Now, I am not sure about what next year shall bring. The meeting should not
> be any larger, I tend to think. At the same time, I'd wish more people to come.
> A dilemma.
I do not consider this as dilemma. At all previous meetings we were
about 20 people. I think the meeting would nto change drastically if we
would be 30 and I see no reason that we might be crowded by say 40
people next year. IMHO we should simply continue as we did the last
year and if it turns out that we might explode the location by the mass
of attendees we might start thinking about solutions.
> We could bring it closer to the original idea of a Sprint and indeed focus
> all more on the same problem, maybe then having more such meetings with
> different subsets of ourselves. What we are having since the very first
> Sprint is more like small mini-debconf with many diverse topics - and I
> like it this way. It was more of a meta-Sprint, maybe.
As long as it is as productive a it was I do not have any problem to add
some diversity. I agree that we had more talks than usually but those
who do not intend to follow are free to keep on hacking.
> This year (again) I was very happy to see the effect of Andreas' training
> on packaging. A Sprint in its pure form is not held for that, admittedly,
> but it is so useful. It made me think, given all the expertise in the room,
> that we should possibly have a few more tutorials on selected biomedical
> routine workflows with Debian. Also, the event had a lot of individualised
> training on various aspects of programming or system administration, just
> when individuals joined for a couple of minutes with someone else on some
> technical challenge - constructive procrastination.
>
> I'll keep thinking about it all a bit more over the next days and will
> see what ideas emerge. Please feel free to send me (or to the list)
> yours.
One idea which might fit your fear of "crowded sprints" on one hand and
more dedicated tasks on the other hand would be to meet two times in a
year. I guess not everybody will make it all the time and so we will
have some selection. And no, I personally would like to stay in the
background for organising for the simple reason that I prefer to do
things I'm good in (== technical work, packaging) and not so good in
things like finding and nagging sponsors, etc. I'd volunteer to pick a
nice location here in my touristic area if somebody else would do the
remaining grunt work.
Kind regards
Andreas.
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