Global Day of Coderetreat

[Ryan Castillo]

Hey Everyone,

We're considering doing this again in December. While I had a ton of fun putting it together last year I'd like for it to be more of a team effort this year. I don't mind handling the teaching aspects but as far as securing sponsorships, a venue, and general organizing I'd love to have some help.

Is anyone up for volunteering? It'd be pretty cool if we could get a page up for this. It is of course a language independent event.

Thanks!

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[Ian Taylor]

I'm up for spending a couple hours at Start Norfolk this weekend building the page.  Anyone else interested?

I just spoke with Zack and we can do it at Hatch, so we have a venue.  Carry Norfolk can sponsor delivery of the food/drinks. Just let me know if we can find someone to pay for the food/drinks we deliver.

Another option to sponsorships is we each pay something small like $5-10 a pop.  What do you all think?

Ian

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[Stanley Zheng]

are there details about the previous event or what a code retreat is?

I'm down regardless though, it sounds cool! 

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[Kevin Griffin]

I'm definitely down.  I was sad I had to miss the last one, and Dec is currently empty for me.  We'd definitely would cross-promote with HRNUG.

Kevin

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[Ryan Castillo]

Can't do it this weekend. Maybe we can do it at one of our weekly hackathons?

We can find sponsors for food.

Regarding us all chipping in money I'd like to stay away from that. Its supposed to be a free event. I would consider letting people pay if we had shirts for people. Maybe we could even have a global shirt campaign. Not sure.

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[Ryan Castillo]

Hey Stanley,

Here is the general site for coderetreat: http://coderetreat.org/

Here is the Ken Tyalor's perspective from attending last year: http://switchspan.com/blog/2012/12/09/global-day-of-coderetreat/

Here is my perspective from hosting it and facilitating it last year: http://refactorstud.io/2012/12/13/facilitating_a_coderetreat/

[Ken Taylor]

Hey Ian,

Did you get any traction on starting the page for the code retreat? If so, is there a github repo we can contribute to?

Thanks!

-Ken

[Ian Taylor]

Hi Ken,

Not yet.  I'll come early to the meeting this Thursday and try to get something up before we start.

Ian

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[Ken Taylor]

Cool. I will see if I can get out the door early and meet you there...

-Ken

[Ryan Castillo]

Awesome guys. We can discuss hosting this at this week's meeting.

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[Ken Taylor]

I noticed we have the code retreat github project created: https://github.com/757rb/code_retreat_2013

We don't have any content in it yet and I don't see how I can add content -- I have some notes I would like to throw in the wiki.

Are we going to do a static site (a la Jeykll)??

Also -> 

Ken: when you get a chance, can you see if we need to be added to the repo in the organization (757rb) -- or is this something I can do?

[Ian Taylor]

Cool Jeykll looks fun to learn.  I'm up for building it that way.

Ian

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[Ken Taylor]

Cool. I started a shell, but I think we need to add an initial commit of a REAME or something on the repo so we can do a pull request. We might have to get Ken C. to do that.

Here is the Jekyll site for more info: http://jekyllrb.com

-Ken

[Ken Collins]

Ian, did you want to push things up?

If you wanted to, you could use either of these as ways I have worked with Jekyll in the past.

* https://github.com/metaskills/compasscontracting.com-jekyll

* https://github.com/metaskills/compasscontracting.com

* https://github.com/757rb/757rb.org-jekyll

* https://github.com/757rb/757rb.org

[Ken Taylor]

Cool. Ian,

Also -- I have added some notes to the organizing repo concerning the Global Day of Coderetreat (the pull request is here: https://github.com/757rb/organizing/pull/3). You can also see them here in my fork of organizing, here: https://github.com/switchspan/organizing

Have a look and let me know what you think.

-Ken

[Ken Collins]

Little busy, but I think we should do away with PR, let's just commit and collaborate. I don't want a PR to linger just because there is a perceived authority has not found time to thumbs up it.

 - Ken

[Ryan Castillo]

Agreed

[Ken Taylor]

Sorry -- Not trying to be a pest (I know I edited a post on groups so it went out twice) -- I just wanted Ian to have a look at it and see if anything was helpful toward the website.

I am for whatever works -- I know that monitoring those repos along with others and a regular work day can be hectic.

-Ken Taylor

[Ken Collins]

On Oct 15, 2013, at 4:54 PM, Ken Taylor <taylor....@gmail.com> wrote:

Sorry -- Not trying to be a pest 

YOU ARE NOT! I just did not want to hold anyone up. When I find time too, I will likely just get in there and start doing stuff too :)

 - Ken

[Ken Taylor]

Cool. No worries!

So is the plan to merge the PR and add all of the appropriate folks for commit to the repo?

-Ken Taylor

[Ian Taylor]

Ha I didn't even know I had any power ;)  I'm also for anyone committing to it. We can always look back at the history and see who broke what if thats an issue.

Ian

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[Ryan Castillo]

Below is the message I received from Jim who is heading Global Day of Coderetreat in case this hasn't been captured anywhere

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Hello Ryan,

I noticed you have not signed up yet to host a coderetreat for this year's Global Day of Coderetreat (December 14th). Your support last year helped to make a great day!

Our goal this year is to have 200 cities participate in the Global Day of Coderetreat. I wanted to reach out to you and see if you would be willing to host again this year. Your participation would really help us to reach our goal. Registration is easy, just fill out the form found at:

http://bit.ly/gdcr13forhosts

We are working hard to make improvements to enable this year's GDCR to be the smoothest one yet! For example, we have created a single page that contains all of the resources needed to organize and run a coderetreat.

Feel free to pass along any feedback you have so we can all work together to make things better this year. Also, if you have decided not to host this year, could you let me know why? I value your thoughts and opinions and want to make coderetreat easier and better for everyone, everywhere.

Hope to hear from you soon!

Jim++

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[Ken Taylor]

Now I am just confused....I though Ian had ALL of the power. :)

[Ken Taylor]

Nice! That will definitely be handy. We will have to link that from the repo as well.

Did you already sign up Ryan, or do you want one of us to do it?

Thanks,

Ken Taylor

[Ian Taylor]

Cool I'll go ahead and register us now.

Ian

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[Ian Taylor]

Ok guys I just created the page for us to sign in: http://coderetreat.org/events/global-day-of-coderetreat-2013-norfolk-u-s

Ian

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On Oct 17, 2013, at 9:36 AM, Ryan Castillo <rmca...@gmail.com> wrote:

[Ken Taylor]

Awesome! You might want to fix the times though -- it has 6pm to7pm. Probably want 8:30am to 6pm.

Now we just need to make the 'pretty' site. :)

-Ken Taylor

[Ian Taylor]

Great catch! Just updated.

Ian

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[Ken Taylor]

Awesome. Now I can start tweeting it! ;)

[Ken Taylor]

Ooops -- just noticed another one -- It says Oct 17th, 2013 instead of Dec 14th, 2013. 

[Ian Taylor]

Now I'm just testing your attention to detail ;)

[Ken Taylor]

Just another free service I provide (along with bad jokes and complaining)....

:)

[Ken Collins]

I've tried like a million times and I can not log into that site with twitter. I'll be going tho, but that site will not let me in nor does it send me an activation link.

 - Ken

[Ken Taylor]

I had the same issue. I finally got it to work though... :-/

Dunno what is going on with their Twitter integration.

[Kevin Griffin]

I had to do it outside of the event instance (just off the main page).  But yeah, took a couple tries.

Kevin

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[Ken Taylor]

Ryan,

Are you going to facilitate the GDCR this year? I noticed there is a training for facilitators tomorrow -- see here: http://coderetreat.org/events/facilitator-training-session-1

Should Ian or I attend this, just in case?

Also, don't forget to check out my cheesy "DeleteYourCode" video and give it a 'Like': http://coderetreat.org/video/optimus-sez-delete-your-code

-Ken Taylor

[Ryan Castillo]

I'd be more than happy to facilitate. I just didn't want to grab that role in case someone else wanted to do it.

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[Ken Taylor]

Cool. I will take the facilitator training anyhow, so you have a backup.

BTW -- Thanks for the like on the video :)

-Ken Taylor

[Ryan Castillo]

So it looks like Kent will be bringing a ton of High School kids this year. Fun! One thing he's asking about is parking. He was wondering if somewhere like Dominion would sponsor their garage. Does anyone have any other ideas regarding the parking situation?

[Ian Taylor]

They could always park in the Freemason area for free and walk over through the pagoda and by the USS Wisconsin. Very pretty stroll. 

Ian

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[Ryan Castillo]

Cool. Lets note that on the events page or site (if we ever have one)

[Ken Taylor]

That (the site) is is probably something we want to finalize this weekend -- We need to really start publicizing on the 14th of Nov -- as the actual event is the 14th of Dec.

Maybe we can talk about it at the BBQ a little.

-Ken Taylor

[Ryan Castillo]

After talking to Ken over the weekend if we want to hold this event at the minimum we just need to do the following:

-  Confirm location with Hatch

-  Open registration on EventBrite

Both of these should be done this week. The nice to haves would be

-  Secure sponsors for food

-  Creating a static site for advertising

You can volunteer or confirm whether these tasks are done or not here: https://github.com/757rb/organizing/blob/master/events/2013-12-14-coderetreat.md

[Ian Taylor]

Location at Hatch is confirmed.  Can I get the EventBrite creds to create the event?

Ian

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[Ryan Castillo]

I couldn't figure out a way to make the event repeat so we'll just have to do a copy and a paste of this page: https://gdcrnorfolk.eventbrite.com. We should probably also use the 757rb google account so that the eventbrite account isn't owned by a single person.

[Ian Taylor]

Send me the creds for the account and I'll make the event.

Ian

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[Ken Taylor]

Ian/Ryan,

When you get the eventbrite set up, let me know what the link is -- there is an HRNUG meeting tonight and we want to get that in the announcements. I will also pass on the GDCR local site for us.

-Ken Taylor

[Ryan Castillo]

Ian,

I sent you the credentials for our 757rb google account. Just use those same credentials for a new 757rb eventbrite account.

Thanks!

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[Ian Taylor]

Finally got time to make it: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/global-day-of-coderetreat-2013-norfolk-tickets-9337983159

Ian

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[Stanley Zheng]

Hey Ian  

Times wrong. Starts at 9am sat not 9pm Friday correct.

Otherwise looks good registered :)

Stanley Zheng

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Old Dominion University 2014

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[Ian Taylor]

Thanks Stanley, just fixed it.

Ian

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[Ken Taylor]

Good catch, Stanley!

Ian,

Thanks again for getting this in place :)

But -- 4 quick things:

1. You might want to set the start time to be 8:30am -- assuming 2 things: people will probably be a little late and we want to start the sessions on time, and we need time for the attendees to get coffee in them and wake up for the sessions.

2. We need to link to our GDCR site: http://coderetreat.org/events/global-day-of-coderetreat-2013-norfolk-u-s  (we will need to turn off the event on that site and point to eventbrite on that site)

3. We should change the logo to something for GDCR. I have attached one that I made and one that is a possibility-- you pick.

4. I might be wrong because I didn't register, but there is no location info on the eventbrite site (i.e. address for Hatch) -- we want that to show up so they can use just the eventbrite print up if they need to.

Also, I created a bit.ly link for publicizing the eventbrite link: http://bit.ly/NorfolkGDCR2013  or http://bit.ly/gdcr2013norfolk
BTW -- I have been in contact with UDig as a possible sponsor.


Hope that helps,

Ken

[Ian Taylor]

1,3,4 done

2 I don't think it matters where people RSVP as we can just look at both.

Ian

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[Ken Taylor]

Awesome! You combined both of the pics. :)

Agreed -- we can just check both sites and see who is signed up.

-Ken