Congratulations on such a successful sprint! I'm about to run our next HackFest, and know something of how difficult it can be to organise something like this. I can only hope ours is anywhere near as productive and (I assume) satisfying as yours has been!
-- Curtis On 24 September 2013 08:39, Daniele Procida <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Sep 23, 2013, Daniele Procida <[email protected]> wrote: > > >At the Don't be afraid to commit workshop at PyCon UK today there were a > >lot of attendees <http://dont-be-afraid-to-commit.readthedocs.org/en/ > >latest/attendance_record.html#pycon-uk-in-coventry-22nd-september-2013> > >(31 of them). > > > >Many of them said they'd come to the Django sprint tomorrow (Monday 23rd > >September), which runs 1000-1230 and 1330-1600 UTC+1. > > > >If anyone can be in #django-sprint to help out that would be very nice > indeed. > > I just want to say thanks to everyone who helped the sprinters (or even > just popped in to say hello) on IRC, but especially Tim Graham, who was > there throughout the day and really helped make it a success. > > It was an excellent sprint. We had 14 people involved, and I think all of > them were were first-time Django contributors. Several were people who had > very little experience of this at all (many installed Git and set up GitHub > accounts for the first time yesterday in the workshop), but today several > pull requests were made and merged: > > < > https://github.com/django/django/commit/c81b6f7b834da8d8fbcf679679ce158173df3a05 > > > < > https://github.com/django/django/commit/98e0453f00958af63b50e70990903eb6a04e1933 > > > < > https://github.com/django/django/commit/6a30075eaa52b3d91665195a34901ac450df5bbb > > > < > https://github.com/django/django/commit/a53caf28bf2ab29cf4e78a968b3887ddb6d6e83d > > > < > https://github.com/django/django/commit/41167645b1039067127fa215d4d28296bfa4cfdc > > > < > https://github.com/django/django/commit/e15f7f31d048ead5453b5ee810235cf88b42b3cc > > > > there's one open pull request: > > <https://github.com/django/django/pull/1662> > > and I think a couple more people at least are still working on theirs. > > Having friendly strangers on hand in the IRC channels made their first > impressions of the Django community a very good one. There was a very > positive (and excited, once people started getting close to making pull > requests) vibe at our table, and some of the sprinters were beaming with > delight after their pull requests were merged. > > I was taken aback when I saw how many people had turned up for the > workshop on Sunday (< > http://dont-be-afraid-to-commit.readthedocs.org/en/latest/attendance_record.html#pycon-uk-in-coventry-22nd-september-2013> > - over 30 of them), but in fact I think it was the most successful one so > far. > > Daniele > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Django developers" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-developers. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django developers" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-developers. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
