Re: Hackathon (was: Re: The Friday Experiment)

Eric Rescorla <ekr@rtfm.com> Tue, 13 November 2018 14:29 UTC

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From: Eric Rescorla <ekr@rtfm.com>
Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2018 06:29:08 -0800
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Subject: Re: Hackathon (was: Re: The Friday Experiment)
To: Jana Iyengar <jri.ietf@gmail.com>
Cc: Martin Thomson <martin.thomson@gmail.com>, Paul Wouters <paul@nohats.ca>, IETF discussion list <ietf@ietf.org>
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+1 on the presentations and competition aspect. I also don't think we need
the "here is how to find a team" stuff...

-Ekr


On Mon, Nov 12, 2018 at 10:55 PM Jana Iyengar <jri.ietf@gmail.com> wrote:

> +1 to let's not do presentations at the end of the hackathon.  If we want
> to thank sponsors, there could be a no-audio presentation that runs in a
> loop for a couple of hours on Sunday afternoon.
>
> I will take a moment to thank the organizers for the excellent
> arrangements in Bangkok.  The meals/snacks/drinks options alone were
> spectacular.
>
> On Tue, Nov 13, 2018 at 1:49 PM Martin Thomson <martin.thomson@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Nov 13, 2018 at 5:38 PM Lars Eggert <lars@eggert.org> wrote:
>> > On 2018-11-13, at 4:49, Ted Lemon <mellon@fugue.com> wrote:
>> > Yup. The announcements in general are pretty distracting.
>> >
>> > Fully agreed. Basically, they kill over an hour of otherwise productive
>> time.
>>
>> Same.  I appreciate that it is necessary to thank sponsors and the
>> like, but these overheads could be greatly reduced or eliminated.
>>
>> Why can't they all be like the Cisco host talk at the plenary?
>>
>>