What to bring and what goes on?

[MrJaba]

Hi Guys, i'd very much like to come to this event, but as it will be
my first such event, I was wondering what I would need to bring with
me? Laptop etc, and sleeping bag stuff, what about books? Pickaxe,
rails way etc?. As I'm still a bit of a Rails noob, will I be ok to
come along and watch and learn? What kind of things go on at these
events? Are we set a challenge to solve?
I can also bring with me, wii/ps2 +guitar hero 2 if need be??

Really excited about this event.

Jaba

[Pat Allan]

Hi Jaba

Don't worry about how much experience you've got - I'm sure we'll have
people at all levels attending.

As to what to bring: Books are completely up to you - but since we
won't have internet access, they're probably a bit more helpful than
usual. If you're not driving though, that does mean extra weight to
cart around.

The plan for the weekend is to have some talks/sessions during the day
on Saturday and Sunday - which (I'm sure) will range in skill level
and focus. Generally, though, people are free to chat with each other,
or hack away on their own projects, or help others with shared
projects, or whatever. You'll only be set the challenges you give
yourself :)

And would love for you to bring wii, ps 2 and guitar hero. Some might
argue it wouldn't be a real Rails Camp without them.

Cheers

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[MrJaba]

Thanks Pat, that's good to know, i'm very excited about coming, and
after looking at what people are interested in discussing i think I'm
definitely going to learn a lot!
I'll bring me some books along too, and definitely the wii, i'll see
if I can fit the ps2 and guitar hero in as well, but I don't think I
have the car that weekend so that lot on a train could be a bit of a
pain, but I'll give it a go. Haha, this is going to be great fun!

Jaba

[ijonas]

So no Internet/Wifi access ? Do people brings 3G dongles, or is that
frowned upon in effort of more "hardcoredness" ;-) ?

On Jul 12, 4:56 pm, Pat Allan <p...@freelancing-gods.com> wrote:

[Matthew Westcott]

On 13 Jul 2008, at 09:32, ijonas wrote:

> So no Internet/Wifi access ? Do people brings 3G dongles, or is that
> frowned upon in effort of more "hardcoredness" ;-) ?

First, it's probably worth saying that with this being the first
event of its kind in the UK, any questions of the form "do people do
X?" are a little bit flawed... the nature of the event, and what
people do there, will be shaped by the people who attend it. Even if
there's precedent for doing things a certain way in other countries,
there's no reason we can't put our own UK-ish stamp on the formula.

Having said that - since the premise of the event seems to be 'see
what happens when we gather a bunch of enthusiasts together in one
place with no internet access', taking a 3G dongle probably wouldn't
be in the spirit of the event... that's just my opinion though.

- Matt

[Pat Allan]

On 13/07/2008, at 11:57 AM, Matthew Westcott wrote:

> On 13 Jul 2008, at 09:32, ijonas wrote:
>
>> So no Internet/Wifi access ? Do people brings 3G dongles, or is that
>> frowned upon in effort of more "hardcoredness" ;-) ?
>
> First, it's probably worth saying that with this being the first
> event of its kind in the UK, any questions of the form "do people do
> X?" are a little bit flawed... the nature of the event, and what
> people do there, will be shaped by the people who attend it. Even if
> there's precedent for doing things a certain way in other countries,
> there's no reason we can't put our own UK-ish stamp on the formula.

Exactly right.

> Having said that - since the premise of the event seems to be 'see
> what happens when we gather a bunch of enthusiasts together in one
> place with no internet access', taking a 3G dongle probably wouldn't
> be in the spirit of the event... that's just my opinion though.

Personally, I'm not too fussed if people bring their 3G dongles - but
if you don't *need* it, don't bring it, in my opinion.

--
Pat

[ijonas]

Woaah, guys take it easy... Don't shoot the messenger...

I had misread the premise of the event... My speedreading powers come
at the cost of accuracy hence I missed the crucial line on
railscamp08.org: "Imagine yourself and a posse of like-minded ruby
hackers on a country retreat with _____zero internet______ for a
weekend of fun. "

You have my apologies and an even greater sense of anticipation.

Cheers,
Ij.

[Matt Allen]

On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 2:36 AM, Pat Allan <p...@freelancing-gods.com> wrote:

Personally, I'm not too fussed if people bring their 3G dongles - but
if you don't *need* it, don't bring it, in my opinion.

Just an opinion of me, an aussie rails camper - It was actually that a few guys had these available, mostly for documentation reference that we didnt have on hand. They were never publically shared or left on, really a "just in case". I used a mates to look up the twitter API to make my twetter service work, things like that where the docs are not in ri or rdoc is the perfect example.

Matt

PS. feel free to run up the twetter service on a server at RCUK - http://git.railscamp.net/projects/twetter. DNS hijacking required.

[jameshill]

I'm pretty sure 3G won't be available anyway, when I went to check the
place out I'm pretty sure my iPhone was struggling to get GSM...