[kepler-dev] kepler hackathon 2004

[Chad Berkley]

Thanks Edward.  That sounds like a great idea.  let's see what the rest 
of the gang thinks.

chad

On Feb 10, 2004, at 11:25 AM, Edward A Lee wrote:

>
> This is a wonderful idea... We have a nice setup here, if the weather
> is lousy enough: a room we can use continually for several days that
> has a large table, a projector, a large format printer (good for
> large UML diagrams, for example), a comfortable couch, a small fridge,
> and a very good espresso machine...
>
> Doing it here would also have the advantage that I could recruit
> some of my students to help out...
>
> We've often used this room for such hack-a-thons...
>
> Edward
>
>
> At 10:11 AM 2/10/2004 -0800, Chad Berkley wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I've been thinking about last week and how much rich, mark and i got 
>> done in a short period of time by just sitting together with our 
>> laptops and helping each other hack out code (or pipelines).  I'd 
>> like to propose that a small number of us (maybe 5-8 people) get 
>> together in the next couple months...maybe april, and have a 
>> hackathon...that is, a group extreme programming session.
>>
>> I think if a few of us that are heavily involved in code development 
>> got together in a room and just helped each other out, we could 
>> produce a lot of code in a short period of time.  I think this would 
>> be especially useful in fixing the interface problems that we've 
>> identified.  We could break into subgroups to attempt domain specific 
>> problems as well.
>>
>> I talked with rich and mark about this last week and they seemed to 
>> think it would be beneficial.  If the people with control of the 
>> money think this is a good idea, I'd be willing to organize it.  
>> Maybe we could have it at a neutral location, preferably somewhere 
>> with crappy weather so we're not tempted to want to go outside.  
>> How's Omaha sound?  :)  I think probably a 3 day session would be 
>> good...maybe 4, but I think after 3 days of intense coding, we'd be 
>> pretty fried.
>>
>> Anyway, I wanted to throw this idea out there and see what other 
>> people thought about it.
>>
>> chad
>>
>>
>> --
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>> Chad Berkley
>> National Center for
>> Ecological Analysis
>> and Synthesis (NCEAS)
>> berkley at nceas.ucsb.edu
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