D Developers Conference

[Jan Claeys]

Op Tue, 22 May 2007 22:37:49 -0700
schreef Brad Roberts <braddr at puremagic.com>:

> > Are there any plans for code sprints?  I'm not sure what they would
> > be about ... maybe implementing missing functionality for Tango, or 
> > possibly related to the Win32 headers or something.  Just a
> > thought.  Or maybe documentation sprints?  Seems a shame to get so
> > many coders together and not code something.

> I gotta disagree.  It'd be a shame to spend the time and money to get 
> this many people together to do a bunch of typing that they could
> just as well do from home.  Face to face time is so rare that it
> should be spent doing things that are hard to do from the comfort of
> home.  That said, I'll certainly have space available for people who
> do feel the desire to design on a white board, or huddle around a
> laptop, or whatever.

Code sprints are often held just before or after a conference, not
during a conference.  The advantage being that everybody is at the same
place already.

See for example: <http://us.pycon.org/TX2007/Sprinting>


-- 
Jan Claeys