These are all good reasons, especially for the tutorial side of things. >From the perspective of sprints:
* You can discuss architectural issues/challenges with members of the project core team * You can get engaged with the open source development process * You can get immediate answers (and often resolution) on bugs that are causing you personal problems * You can get rapid design feedback on proposals you'd like to see integrated with the project Yours, Russ Magee %-) On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 6:31 AM, John DeRosa <[email protected]> wrote: > You can survey technologies you don’t use in your daily work. > You can explore alternative technologies for your current job. > You can learn new details about technologies you know, in intermediate or > advanced tutorials. > You can learn in-depth, because you’re in a session for 3 hours, vs. 45 > minutes. > You can more easily network, because tutorials are less frenetic than the > full-conference madhouse. > > > John > > On Jan 16, 2014, at 2:25 PM, Keith Edmiston <[email protected]> wrote: > > I'm scheduled to give a talk/presentation to my colleagues on why > attending tutorials and sprints at a conference is a great idea (I attended > DjangoConUS2013). > > Any ideas/thoughts much appreciated. > > ----------- > > Conference Tutorials and Sprints…what are they all about? > > "Often we attend technical conferences, but wonder what the tutorials > beforehand and sprints afterwards really offer. This session will provide > some insight to that dark world of give and take." > > > -- > Keith Edmiston > (512)970-7222 > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Django users" 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-users. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-users/CAP_gv7LC_owxKuigT_hbVd5mjruCm7AUKMqBHq6y1P0uP%2BdaKw%40mail.gmail.com > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Django users" 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-users. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-users/73858338-D0B1-4736-84B0-6416D2ACBCED%40ipstreet.com > . > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" 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-users. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-users/CAJxq84_80vQ-ZnrrmnAsx6e1rx_6KPc9JL18EpKfU2HcSTFG9w%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
