Python Ireland Unconference
Michael Twomey
Python Ireland is holding its first unconference on Saturday 6th February.
What is an unconference I hear you ask?
An unconference is an anti-conference, it takes the most interesting
bits of conferences (the hallway chat) and turns that into the entire
conference. You turn up with whatever you want to talk about (or ask)
and everyone there agrees the schedule. Then whatever happens after
that is the unconference.
The rules are fairly simple (lifted from
http://scratchpad.wikia.com/wiki/UnConference_'Rules'):
1. The people who come are the best people who could have come.
2. Whatever happens is the only thing that could have happened.
3. It starts when it starts.
4. It's over when it's over.
5. The Law of Two Feet (also known as if the topic doesn't interest
you, wander off to one that does).
Bruce Eckel is a huge fan, in fact he gave a good talk on the topic:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aD3S0wlbek0
When is it?
Saturday, 6th February from 11:00 to whenever we want (or we get
kicked out at night, whichever comes first).
Where is it?
The Computer Science building, UCD. Helpful signs will be posted on the doors.
http://www.csi.ucd.ie/directions
What do I need?
Yourself, bring a laptop if you want (for showing off stuff or hacking
on things).
Will there be food?
The canteens should be open, 10 and 5 minutes walk from the unconference.
What will happen?
We'll get together in the morning and go over how the unconference
will work. Then everyone stands in front of a session board and puts
up sessions. Once we've got a schedule we like the unconference
starts.
Many thanks to Seán Murphy for helping organise this and providing
facilities in UCD.
mick
Declan McGrath
That's great that you're organising this unconference. Best of luck
with it. I sadly won't be able to make it as I'm away at FOSDEM in
Brussels but I hope it goes well!
I'll keep an eye on the #pythonireland tweets!
Maybe we can do a joint event across some the Open Source language
groups sometime.
Ciao,
Dec
On Jan 22, 5:54 pm, Michael Twomey <micktwo...@gmail.com> wrote:
> http://www.python.ie/meetup/2010/python_ireland_unconference/
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> Python Ireland is holding its first unconference on Saturday 6th February.
>
> What is an unconference I hear you ask?
>
> An unconference is an anti-conference, it takes the most interesting
> bits of conferences (the hallway chat) and turns that into the entire
> conference. You turn up with whatever you want to talk about (or ask)
> and everyone there agrees the schedule. Then whatever happens after
> that is the unconference.
>
> The rules are fairly simple (lifted fromhttp://scratchpad.wikia.com/wiki/UnConference_'Rules'):
Vicky Lee
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I'm looking forward to it. Baby-sitter is organised. see you all there.
Kevin
> Cheers,
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> /// Vicky
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>> facilities in UCD.
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