<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 3:50 PM, Mary Gardiner <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mary@puzzling.org">mary@puzzling.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div class="im">On Wed, Jan 25, 2012, Russell Coker wrote:<br>
> Also every dorm block had a kitchen table and chairs to seat at least<br>
> a dozen people. Anyone could have organised a hack day in one of<br>
> those, I believe that such hack days generally don't have that many<br>
> people.<br>
><br>
> Maybe the main thing that was missing in this regard is the meme that<br>
> people should run hack days.<br>
<br>
</div>I think this is fairly key. It's tempting to say that if people really<br>
wanted <whatever> in close association with LCA they'd JFDI, and to some<br>
extent it's true (witness the collision of events on Sat Jan 14) but it<br>
has taken several years to come to fruitition. (It's not all downside,<br>
some of those Jan 14, including AdaCamp, are happier without LA/LCA<br>
affiliation due to somewhat different goals and audiences.)<br>
<br>
Associated events with the Official Conference Seal of Approval will<br>
take off faster, and thus if LA or the conference can identify<br>
events/activities likely to significantly improve LCA, they're more<br>
likely to be successful if officially affiliated somehow. If nothing<br>
else, there will be an element of "well, <event> was included in my<br>
registration, so why not?" and some of those "why not?" people will<br>
go on to become good contributors.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>As a middle ground between things being organized by unaffiliated random external groups and having the Council do all the work, the Council has put a lot of work over the last year into making it easier to for sub-committees to pop up to organise things. The LA organising sub-committees, the Pycon subcommittee, and the LUG subcommittees that are starting to pop up are just some examples - if someone wants to JFD a hack day, the Council could potentially bless them as a subcommittee.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Does this sound like it would be useful?</div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
-Mary<br>
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