Registration selection/filter criteria?
Naresh Jain
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Dan Mead
Ramon Davila
David Bogus
sign up that didn't attend or attend much.
The only filter I think of right off is payment/sponsor ship of the confrence.
Dave
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Naresh Jain
>>What will be the rationale for that?
Makes sense? Or I'm living under a rock. Again, it's our conference, how can we make it better? Lots of people complained last time about " Need more hands on "stuff""
Corey Haines
(longer break, maybe 10-15 minutes) between sessions for
socializing/picking next topic, it would be perfect. I am not as keen
on the idea of having a definite goal; it kind of defeats the purpose
of a self-organizing conference. If we had a room with internet access
(wireless or a hub), then people could choose to go and work together
if they want (like last time with Casey doing the bowling game in
Haskell).
In my view, "more hands-on stuff" would have been easier access to sit
down and get the computers out. I really like the discussions about
things. I definitely wouldn't have minded doing a bit more coding, but
I'm not sure that it would have been better if there was a definite
"goal," as opposed to just hearing someone talking and saying "show
me." I know that Naresh and I went back to my hotel to code for a bit,
so I could show him some thoughts of mine, but I had had a couple two
many beers, I think, by the time he arrived, so I don't know if it was
too productive for him (I definitely enjoyed it).
I guess having a direction other than "Simple Design and Testing,"
wouldn't be horrible, if we agreed on something Friday night. But,
then, it turns into a "let's get something written" weekend, rather
than "let's have a weekend that we can talk face-to-face about stuff."
-Corey
Corey Haines
how many people can register. If people are willing to ship themselves
out to York, PA, for a conference, they probably are the right people
to come.
(add to that the fact that I'm not 100% sure that I'd be selected) :)
-Corey
George Dinwiddie
Not only will it improve attendance if people have some skin in the
game, but they'll think the conference has more value, also. It doesn't
have to be much. This is basic Psychology 101 stuff.
I went to the Portland AgileOpen conference last February, and the
energy level was very high. I'd like to see us get the same level of
interest on the East Coast.
I don't think it's necessary to require attendees to bring something,
but it might be a good idea to seed the conference with some people who
are bringing something.
- George
David Bogus wrote:
> Is it going to be free again? Last year we had a number of people
> sign up that didn't attend or attend much.
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> The only filter I think of right off is payment/sponsor ship of the confrence.
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> Dave
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> On 9/19/07, Ramon Davila <davila...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Do you mean a filter to decide who can register? What will be the rationale
>> for that?
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>> On 9/19/07, Naresh Jain <nash...@gmail.com > wrote:
>>> There have been a few discussions on should we keep the registration open
>> to all [like last year] or do we have some filter/selection criteria. What
>> do you think?
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Naresh Jain
Also with money being involved, it complicates things for the organizers. They need an account, they need website which can accept cards or use some other site's service, etc. Last year, there was not a single dollar that was routed thru me. All the sponsors sponsored in kind and we were done with the event. There was no need to open a bank account, manage it, etc.
If possible I would like to keep it simple.
Corey Haines
said that there had been a few discussions. Were people concerned
about the quality of people that showed up last year? That sounds
doubtful. Perhaps it seems like we might get too many people?
-Corey
Brian Marick
On Sep 20, 2007, at 2:58 PM, Corey Haines wrote:
> Just out of curiosity, what prompted the idea of filter criteria? You
> said that there had been a few discussions. Were people concerned
> about the quality of people that showed up last year? That sounds
> doubtful. Perhaps it seems like we might get too many people?
I don't know if I'm the person who started all this, but the kind of
thing I was proposing is not so much about filtering. What I've seen
at OOPSLA and AWTA (Austin Workshop on Test Automation) is that
having people write a position paper before coming leads to better
discussion because people have thought about what they want from the
conference. You don't spend half the time figuring out what you want
to figure out.
Position papers are rarely rejected.
Position papers almost make it more likely that we'll have well-
chosen examples to look at and discuss. If you're going to talk about
written things - code and tests - it's good to have written things to
look at.
People will also be more encouraged to prepare some sort of
experiential learning extravaganzas.
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