[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Will the "coding hackfest" survey submissions be made available?

[Dan Scott]

As noted in the description of the inaugural hackfest at Access 2002
(http://www.access.uwindsor.ca/units/access/main.nsf/hackfest?OpenForm)
and described in the One Big Library podcast episode about the Access
2006 hackfest (http://onebiglibrary.net/geeks/episode/006-access-hackfest),
part of the magic of a hackfest is that ideas for cool projects are
solicited in advance; the project ideas are unveiled at the beginning
of the hackfest; participants indicate what projects they would like
to tackle and self-organize into smaller groups; and then the groups
work on those projects in a good-natured competition for the remainder
of the day (occasionally jumping projects, moaning about connectivity
or the lack thereof, and generally engaging in chaotic behaviour that
nonetheless drives brilliant results).

A key part of this, of course, is the project ideas. As part of the EG
conference survey, I had submitted ten or so ideas for coding hackfest
projects. Has someone taken responsibility for collecting all of those
hackfest ideas together and making them available at the start of the
hackfest?

I ask only because a previous version of the "coding hackfest" bullet
point stated that a room would be available at 9:00 but questioned
whether anything would happen before 10:00 - which worries me a bit
that apart from facilities, which are greatly appreciated, this
hackfest might be leaning a bit too much on the chaotic side at the
moment (or, alternately, it might be better called a "gathering of
Evergreen developers" - which is fine in and of itself, but it is
different from Access-style hackfests).

-- 
Dan Scott
Laurentian University