[sage-devel] Re: Organizing sage days

2011-10-29 Thread Keshav Kini
In the two Sage Days I've been to, the schedule was something like this: Every morning, we would all congregate at the conference room, and there would be a talk. After the talk, on the first day, we each mentioned some topic we were going to work on, and this would be written on the whiteboard

[sage-devel] Re: Organizing sage days

2011-10-29 Thread mmarco
Thanks for the responses. What i still don't know is how coding sprints are suposed to be. Do they happen in the hotel or in the conference rooms? Are they planed in advance or do they just happen spontaneously? Do they involve everybody working together in one task or each one works in a differen

[sage-devel] Re: Organizing sage days

2011-10-28 Thread Maarten Derickx
There may be usefull info to be found on http://wiki.sagemath.org/HowToHostASageDays . I don't have experience in organizing either, but I've been to multiple sage days and they where all very different. So I guess that as soon as you manage to get enough good speakers to come an enough people