A lot of people probably come with an agenda, and know exactly what
they want to work on, but I think it might also be nice to have a
"structured track", like a to-do list of a dozen or two fairly
self-contained bugs or new dev problems from a couple of different
areas that total n00bs could work on singly or in small groups. (If
it's possible to assemble such a list.) This is somewhat counter to
the idea of a sprint, I think, but a little hand-holding can go a long
way into getting people involved in the project.

On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 3:09 PM, whit <whit@...> wrote:
> hey all... I know this was a small list, but want to thank everyone who came...
>
> next time we'll hopefully have a bit more lead time.  I know the
> columbia folks loved it, and I sure had a great time talking to
> everyone and seeing what they were up to.
>
> anyhoo, I learned alot, and am interested in what you guys think would
> improve the next time we do this. some things that come to my mind::
>
>  * at least one social event connected to the sprint itself for people
> to get know each other
>
>  * an agenda including times for introductions, checkins and a sum up
>
>  * better tracking of who was coming and what they wanted to work on
> so folks would know who to talk to.
>   - pictures??
>   - list of names and affiliations or current projects
>
>  * a developer driven round of demos and/or lightening talks
>
>  * having it sometime that is not immediately after opengeofest (felt
> like we lost important personnel and attention due to having too much
> going on this past week)
>
> And finally, not arranging any sort of formal postmortem of what got
> down, what got planned, what the next actions for awesomeness are! I
> think we can do that perhaps here, or privately, but it's nice to
> preserve the outcomes of what was (in my mind) a very inspiring event.
>
> so thanks again! and let me know your thoughts.
>
> -w
>
>
> On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 6:28 AM, Christopher Schmidt
> <crschmidt@...> wrote:
>> On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 07:22:54AM -0500, Christopher Schmidt wrote:
>>> I'll be arriving in New York tomorrow at 10:45, at 34th/8th, from Bolt
>>> Bus.
>>>
>>> Once I do that, I'm assuming I'll be taking the #1 north: Something like
>>> http://maps.google.com/maps?f=d&source=s_d&saddr=34th+and+8th,+NYC&daddr=535+W+116th+St,+New+York,+NY+10027+(Columbia+University)&hl=en&geocode=%3BFU-rbgId5W2X-yEKHvnPHpPDQw&mra=cc&dirflg=r&sll=40.780151,-73.983479&sspn=0.067853,0.103512&ie=UTF8&z=13&start=0
>>>
>>> Is this right? Once I'm at Columbia, where do I go / how do I get in,
>>> etc.?
>>
>> I see now that the
>> http://www.openplans.org/projects/nyc-open-mapping-sprint/project-home
>> page has better directions, including room numbers. So, I think I can
>> read that and figure it out; sorry for the noise!
>>
>> Regards,
>> --
>> Christopher Schmidt
>> MetaCarta
>>
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