Re: [eclipse.org-eclipsecon-program-committee] A bit about the Code Camp

[Jeff McAffer <jeff@xxxxxxxxx>]

As a point of interest we are having an Equinox HackFest at the Eclipse 
Summit Europe.  While the details are not finalize yet, the plan is to 
have a code base that people can extend, as Peter suggests, with just a 
few bundles to get something more interesting.  Of course we are doing 
it in the runtime area but there's no reason similar things could not be 
done in the various tooling areas, modeling, ...  We are thinking of 
having the information available prior to the conference so that people 
can at least have a chance to think about what they might do if not 
actually prepare something.

Jeff

Peter Kriens wrote:
> Why not turn it into a competition?
>
> At the beginning of the week we provide a number of problem statements 
> and at the end of the week people can submit their plugins for it and 
> we might hand out a price. If we make the problems big enough people 
> will have to collaborate.
>
> At OOPSLA we had DesignFest [1] (Remember Bjorn?). At DesignFest 
> people got a requirements document and they had to come up with a 
> design. If we could do such an event during tutorial time we could 
> create designs people could work on in their spare time during the 
> remainder of the week. DesignFest had general problems but in this 
> case we could focus on problems that could be implemented with a few 
> bundles. Of course the problems would have to be small enough. Would 
> be really interesting to do this with some experienced people that 
> know some parts of Eclipse in and out. And notice the fight between 
> extension points and services. Could be highly educational!
>
> Some problems:
>
>     Quicksilver/Ubiquity functionality for Eclipse
>     New Online/Offline Build system for Eclipse
>     Bundle Dependency Viewer
>     Repository Manager
>     ...
>
> I might be willing to pull that cart. However, just and idea ...
>
> Kind regards,
>
>     Peter Kriens
>
> [1] http://designfest.acm.org/
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> On 2 sep 2008, at 17:51, Chris Aniszczyk wrote:
>
> > Sorry I joined the call late, but I joined around the time we were 
> > talking
> > about expanding the code camps.
> >
> > The code camps were great last year if you needed a place with power, 
> > coffee
> > and peace :)
> >
> > In my opinion, the original objective of getting people together to 
> > hack on
> > things didn't work out well. This was mostly, in my opinion, a lack of
> > organization on our part. Last year, we simply just said there was 
> > going to
> > be a code camp and expected people to show up. This year, we should 
> > aim to
> > utilize the space more by:
> >     - having some type of schedule or even a track as suggested on 
> > the call
> > that is staffed by people from certain projects
> >     - allow people giving talks to elect to use the room as a place to
> > further discussions after a talk is completed (this should be made well
> > known to presenters)
> >
> > Other than that, don't remove the limitless supply of coffee :P
> >
> > Thoughts?
> >
> > --
> > Cheers,
> >
> > ~ Chris Aniszczyk
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