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

[Karen Schneider]

> Ah, I understand; I failed the survey reading comprehension test by
> reading into it what I expected/wanted to see rather than what was
> intended.

Well, we were feeling in the dark as well, so it's all good. :-)

> "hackfest" as used with the predominant library technology conference
> in Canada (Access). That could just be my ugly Canadian-centric
> perspective showing through, though.

I wouldn't say it was geocentric; but there are many variations on the
term (q.v. Google), so we were communicating at cross-purposes. Not
really a question of Canadian-centricity...

>

> The latter would be the ten (not even ten-odd) specific coding project
> suggestions I made. Looks like the survey tool treated linefeeds as
> spaces, which certainly doesn't help - but I'm glad that the
> suggestions weren't lost. Thanks for digging them up.

Without the correct linefeeds, well, it almost seemed like crazy-talk,
so I'm glad there was an explanation. ;)

> Discussing the specific ideas on the mailing list would take away the
> element of surprise associated with an Access-style hackfest (I guess
> mine are public now), but as noted we don't have to slavishly follow
> the Access hackfest style. For this year, we could open the coding
> hackfest session by brainstorming ideas. It would be fun to bring an
> element of competition back to the event; maybe we could self-organize
> some awards ("outstandingly clever project title", "most obscure
> programming language", etc). I noticed that there's no formal timeslot
> for presenting the results of the hackfest, which reduces performance
> incentive (oh the fame! oh the spotlight!). If the other developers
> are interested, we could try to finagle a single lightning talk slot
> to summarize the hackfest results; I guess that will be up to the
> panel that decides which proposed lightning talks make the cut.

Obviously, you would need to demonstrate excellence to the jury, but I
am sure this is feasible. :)

Again, thank you for contributing your ideas, and the conference
committee will be on site early tomorrow to help get the site ready
for Wednesday.

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