From:
John Carter
Date:
2007 Sep 06 00:52 UTC
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I was just reading...
http://www.scottberkun.com/blog/2006/how-to-run-a-great-unconference-session/
and had a wee grue.
I don't know what you guys have planned, but I suspect a series of lightly
prepared powerpoint talks is not how to make this sort of thing fly. But
looking at the "topics" list it looks mostly stand and talk at people.
To make this thing fly we probably need more interact type sessions.
Discussions / debates / panels?
Coding races?
Games?
Code reading (print out some chunk of OSS code, review, critique design, learn
from it, code up fixes, submit)
Exquisite corpse for coders. Not knowing what the task is, each participant
adds an element to the pipeline.
Activism - pick in the something in the universe that pisses off a sizable
portion of attendees, do a single small concrete thing about it.
Pair program teams to perform program visualization.
From:
Seth Wagoner
Date:
2007 Sep 06 21:16 UTC
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Hi John,
Great thinking! It all sounds really good but not sure if we can
manage much of that on short notice. We'll be doing a planning session
on what to do for a weekend-based BarCampChristchurch2, and we'll
definitely put down some of those as options!
Cheers,
Seth.
John Carter wrote:
> I was just reading...
> http://www.scottberkun.com/blog/2006/how-to-run-a-great-unconference-session/
> and had a wee grue.
>
> I don't know what you guys have planned, but I suspect a series of
> lightly prepared powerpoint talks is not how to make this sort of
> thing fly. But looking at the "topics" list it looks mostly stand and
> talk at people.
>
> To make this thing fly we probably need more interact type sessions.
>
> Discussions / debates / panels?
>
> Coding races?
>
> Games?
>
> Code reading (print out some chunk of OSS code, review, critique
> design, learn from it, code up fixes, submit)
>
> Exquisite corpse for coders. Not knowing what the task is, each
> participant adds an element to the pipeline.
>
> Activism - pick in the something in the universe that pisses off a
> sizable portion of attendees, do a single small concrete thing about
> it.
>
> Pair program teams to perform program visualization.
>
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