code sprint

Bij Madcap hebben we het idee gekregen om code sprints te gaan organiseren. Een collega van mij heeft hier ook al een stukje op d.o planet geschreven:

Within the next month we are going to move out of our current office building and relocate to a new building which is bigger, more awesome and most important of all: just a few blocks away from here! The new building has three levels and a huge cafeteria, sounds nice...!

Meer op: http://open.madcap.nl/blog/so-what-about-code-sprints

I'd like to plan a workshop / code sprint within the next month in Los Angeles. I have a couple ideas on what we could tackle as a group, but am open to suggestions.

I'd like to accomplish two things in this session

1.    Help mentor new developers teaching Drupal best practices and guidance in establishing/enhancing a good Drupal / LAMP development environments.
2.    Create a new module from scratch - OR - fix a contrib module. 

There are two Drupal Camp Events open to All Comers. Regardless of whether or not you're attending Drupal Camp, please check out these events!

Update: We are still planning on holding this code sprint, but at different dates. We are actively working on lining up funding currently.

After talking with a lead Plone developer the other day who told me that code sprints are by and large hugely productive events for the Plone community I've decided to throw my hat in the ring to help organize one for Drupal.

Itinerary

The rough plan is to get a dozen or so serious Drupal hackers together for 3-5 days. Attendees should show up with a pretty good idea of what they want to work on and hopefully will be tackling problems that are best solved collaboratively. Every night we will go around and demo what's been accomplished during the day. If Drumm can come we'll have him help cook pancakes and big hippy/vegan dinners. We'll also make sure to have some fun outdoors.