Work Sprint #2 - Thanks for Coming By!

[Jennifer Redman]

A big thank you to everyone who attended the Work Sprint on Saturday!  Highlights included:

• Preliminary Hackers Lounge Planing.
• A discussion around whether or not to include the "s" in hackerslounge.  I think we decided no "s."  But I suspect there will be more debate.
• Initial draft of the Master Conference Schedule.
• A review of open logistics tasks and filling in any missing gaps in Redmine.
• We came up with some new ideas for Extra’s including Shanghai Tunnel Tours.
• We talked about how to organize non-tech interest-based dinners – beer brewing, sci-fi fans and “war stories” as a few examples — to help attendees feel at home socializing.
• We started planning how we’d provide information to attendees about important topics like best local breweries.
• Using the Hackers Lounge to do audio-processing so we can post session recordings the day after they are made

Finally and most importantly we took a tour of the Mark Building at the Portland Art Museum.  Where, if rumors are true, this years’ Open Source Bridge is slated to take place - we are just waiting on an ok from our attorney regarding some changes to the contract - before making an announcement.  There were many ooh’s and aww’s.  Classy was another word frequently used to describe the Mark Building.

Thanks again to everyone who dropped by!

Jen

[Jonathan Leto]

Howdy,

Google search for

"hacker lounge": 18,700 hits (the top few are OSB related, i.e. that
is what we called it last year)
"hackers lounge": 17,900 hits (first hit is a Warez site, yay!)
"hacker's lounge" : 7,220 hits (warez again)

Can we please not use the "s" ?

Duke

--
Jonathan "Duke" Leto
jona...@leto.net
http://leto.net

[M. Edward (Ed) Borasky]

On 03/03/2010 12:40 PM, Jennifer Redman wrote:
> - We talked about how to organize non-tech interest-based dinners � beer
> brewing, sci-fi fans and �war stories� as a few examples � to help attendees
> feel at home socializing.

Uh ... werewolf?

24-hour werewolf lounge? ;-)

> - Using the Hackers Lounge to do audio-processing so we can post session

> recordings the day after they are made

YES! Hardware?

[Jonathan Leto]

Howdy,

>>    - Using the Hackers Lounge to do audio-processing so we can post session
>>    recordings the day after they are made
>
> YES! Hardware?

I think the Hacker Lounge will be a BYOH (Bring Your Own Hardware) event.

Duke

[M. Edward (Ed) Borasky]

On 03/09/2010 09:59 AM, Jonathan Leto wrote:
> Howdy,
>
>>> - Using the Hackers Lounge to do audio-processing so we can post session
>>> recordings the day after they are made
>>
>> YES! Hardware?
>
> I think the Hacker Lounge will be a BYOH (Bring Your Own Hardware) event.
>
> Duke
>
>

That's fine for audio/video editing, but there needs to be some kind of
off-line "server" resource for storage, rendering and distribution. It's
OK if that's somewhere "in the cloud" provided we have upload bandwidth.
Typically, though, upload bandwidth is a fraction of download bandwidth.