Show off your Open Sources

[timoxley]

Many Australian developers have lots of cool stuff we simply never hear about, and it'd be good to be able to provide a lot more support and exposure for locally grown software.

CampJS will run an official "show off your open sources" time slot, where everyone gets a chance to give a quick overview of their open source stuff. Slots could be limited to 10 mins so everyone gets a chance.

This will be held in a dedicated breakout room.

Need to decide whether to schedule these talks upfront or ad-hoc, unconference style.

Please leave a comment on this thread if you'd be interested in this.

[SomeoneWeird]

+1 if we do this near the start of the camp people can offer to help others hack on things :)

[timoxley]

That's another thing I'd like to do, perhaps on the friday night allow people to do some announcements "what I'm hacking on" but we really need some local intranet support for this kind of thing.

[geoffreyd]

I think the intranet site for "I'm currently hacking on" would also be a great place for "I usually hack on". Then a dedicated block for people to explain what they do would be neat, as some of these projects can be hard to grok from a quick glance at a repo.

[deoxxa]

The "I usually hack on ..." idea sounds cool. It could open the avenue for someone who might not have done, say, 3D graphics before to jump in headfirst and ask certain people around the conference (or room!) about things that they don't get. The "I'm currently hacking on ..." bit could do that in reverse - one might see someone working on something that they know a lot about, so they might go ask them "hey how are you going with $NOTORIOUSLY_HARD_ASPECT?" or similar.

EDIT: incentive for people to fill in these areas would be that people looking at them might, in addition to just being interested, have need for someone with those particular skills outside the conference setting (be that in paid work, existing open source projects, or something entirely different altogether).

[AnnaGerber]

+1 this would also be a great way to get beginners or those who haven't done much open source stuff into it (i.e. "what I'd like to be hacking on")

[timoxley]

Also related: I'm trying to have a local dokku setup for the event, courtesy of @eugeneware