[railscamp] Rough draft of railscamp talks

[Andrew Grimm]

Hi everyone,

Below is a list of talks that were scheduled for Saturday and Sunday
daytime, and the talks given during the Sunday night presentation.

Some of the scheduled talks may not have ended up happening.

Also, apologies for incomplete information or any inaccuracies.

Saturday scheduled talks:

* Coffee node and some more <blink>shiny</blink> things 11am

* Discussion: Validation vs tasking by Daniel Heath 12pm

* Ruby Without Borders (And Project Hoff) by Xavier Shay 1pm

* Happy Hacking by Keith Pitty 1:30

* Vim ♡'s You (Why you should love Vim, too) by Gabe Hollombe 2:00-3:00

* BOF: Rails newbies by Ryan Bigg 3pm

* From JavaScript With Love Open discussion: JS organisational
patterns 3:01pm - forever by Dylan FM

* Zombie-chaser 0.1: Going beyond skin deep by Andrew Grimm 4:30-5:30

Sunday scheduled talks:

* Arduino 10am

* Kaniban for software development by Perryn Fowler, 10:30

* Rails 3 by Ryan Bigg, 11am

* Angry Mob by Lachie after lunch

* How Geeks mapped Haiti: more inspiration, less code, 2pm

* Rethinking monitoring for the cloud by Lindsay Holwood, 3pm

* Use babushka, leave a paper trail by Ben Hoskins, 4pm

* Does Railscamp Scale? by Andrew Grimm, 4:30

* How to use cucumber - WIP [work in progress] properly by Perryn
Fowler, straight after the Babushka talk

* Want it? Give by Ryan Bigg, evening

* Rails Rumble 101 by Darcy Laycock

* Corporate jiu-jitsu: The overlap between Grandfighting
[groundfighting?] and Biz [Business?] by Matt Lambie After dinner

* Presentations, iPhone Game by Keith Pitt, What by MP and SW, all 9pm

* Discussion on how to improve railscamp, by unknown

Sunday night presentations

* Machinist by Nigel (About improving performance)

* Give by Ryan Bigg ("Want it? Give")

* What by unknown (Listing tasks people are working on and want to help with)

* Decaf Sucks by Tim Bailey (Coffee review web site. This weekend,
richer iPhone support was added)

* Rent Monkey by Tim Riley (Generating lease agreements for each state
of Australia. It uses multi-stage forms)

* Code yak by Ben (Code analysis web site. This weekend, it added
support for secured repositories)

* Captivate by Zubin (Support for running Capistrano within the
server, so that broken internet connections don't interrupt it. This
weekend, it became gem-based, and had added testing)

* BellWinter by Keith Pitt (An iPhone game)

* (not certain for this one:
Dukejour by Chendo, working on iTunes deejay and dukejour?)

* Warnr by Daniel Heath (Changes rails validation errors into warnings)

* TheyLooked by Nigel (Logs if stakeholders use a specified
functionality on a web site, without affecting production code.)

* Unknown by unknown (Geographical mapping stuff)

* Carpets for communities by unknown (Added Stack Overflow-style
achievement badges, using test driven development)

* Writing "Can Railscamp scale?" at railscamp, by Andrew Grimm

Organizers
* Ben Hoskins
* Tim Lucas - web site
* Daniel Bogan - tshirt design
* Matt Allen - projectors
* Dylan FM - projector transport
* Nathan de Vries - beer kegs
* John and Ben - previous railscamp

sponsors
* Plus2 - $2000 for free thirst [not sure what I was meaning when I
wrote that. Sorry]
* Cogent Consulting - paying for incidentals (keg and petty expenses)
* Anchor Systems - three kegs, sponsored Richard being here
* Octopus Computing - prizes and cupcakes
* Lonely Planet - book prizes
* Sitepoint - book prizes

List of possible reschedulings and whatnot (I was asked about how much
rescheduling and cancellation went on, and this is my best knowledge):

* Happy Hacking (rescheduled)
* Vim ♡'s You (rescheduled)
* BOF: Rails newbies (rescheduled twice)
* Coffee node and some more <blink>shiny</blink> things (rescheduled)
* Rails 3 Sunday session (cancelled?)
* Want it? Give (scheduled as part of Sunday night presentations)
* Rails Rumble 101 (scheduled as part of Sunday night presentations)

I'm not able to verify that the talks advertised on the butcher's
paper went ahead, as I only went to some talks.

Many other things happened in the weekend apart from what was
demonstrated on Sunday night. For example, lots of people worked on
RubyWarrior players, one person worked on more challenges for
RubyWarrior, and fixes were made to Boredjour.

Thanks,

Andrew

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[Brett Goulder]

Hey Andrew,

Thanks for compiling this list, it's awesome! Do you think you can post
the notes from the "Does Railscamp scale" talk? It might be helpful for
the next Railscamp organisers.

Cheers

Brett

[Myles Carrick]

Nice work, Andrew.

quick things i noticed:

* kanban (not kaniban) talk by Perryn
* machinist talk was of course by Pete Yandell (@notahat) not Nigel.
* carpets for communities stuff was by Richard Khoo (@evolve2k)
* geographical mapping stuff was by Angus Scown @angusscown

MC

[Jack Chen]

Ben Hoskings is spelt with a g;

I talked about dmap-ng (http://github.com/chendo/dmap-ng) and deejay (once I have a decent set of code I'll push to github)

[Dylan Fogarty-MacDonald]

My JS discussion one didn't go ahead due to time constraints. I was keen to have it the next day, but didn't hold it. Sorry to anyone who was keen to participate!

Dylan

[Dr Nic Williams]

The CoffeeScript discussion was by Chris Lloyd

"Making TextMate bundles" by Dr Nic on Sunday night

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[Korny Sietsma]

Pity, that was on my list to try to attend; though I'm perversely happy it didn't happen, as I thought I'd just missed it.  If everyone missed it, I don't feel so bad :)

Might I suggest we need a better system for managing talks in future camps?  I got completely lost... partly due to beer and general chaos, but also the flip-chart was in a random order, and several talks were cancelled or moved, and knowing what was *really* happening was often quite hard.

It'd be good to have a single point of truth about what is being discussed, and (importantly!) *where* it is being discussed; I actually quite like physical stuff like whiteboards or flip charts, as you get a big clear indicator of what's going on, but maybe we need a grid, with hours down the left side, rooms/areas across the top.

And of course encourage folks to update the board as stuff moves.  If you couldn't get a whiteboard, you could do something with index cards on a wall - it'd look all agile-like too.

- Korny (pining for railscamp coffee)

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