I think the lobby is a public space until you misbehave enough to get
tossed out. Same for the bar. So you can catch the hallway track.
Is there really a 'hallway track', or are you just poking fun at my sore
spots?
If there is, is there a schedule/list of tracks somewhere that we the
public have access to? I'd be interested to see what intriguing bits I
might be able to learn about if I freeloaded in the public spaces.
I think the lobby is a public space until you misbehave enough to get tossed out. Same for the bar. So you can catch the hallway track.
Is there really a 'hallway track', or are you just poking fun at my sore
spots?
It's slang for the discussions that occur outside the actual presentation area, such as the lobby, bar, restaurant, pool-side, or wherever geeks gather.
My idea of a good conf is when the talks are short and disperse just enough info and ideas to trigger such extended discussions. A good hallway track is a sign of a good conference, and it's one of the things that makes me keep coming to RubyConf.
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--
James Britt
"A principle or axiom is of no value without the rules for applying it."
- Len Bullard
RubyConf is and always has been a single-track event. I have discussed
this with David Black sufficiently to suggest that the likelihood of
RubyConf ever becoming multi-track is very low. (I think a snowball has
a better chance, if you catch my drift.)
However, the planning for RubyConf is sufficiently flexible that there
*is* a hallway track in that there's often a lot of hallway discussions
(without the science-fair posters) and some random hacking that gets
done.
I didn't attend it, but I hear that one of the more interesting
discussions happened around behaviour driven development by the pool in
San Diego last year (I think that I was a bit jet-lagged and therefore
didn't attend that). It was in no way an officially planned event.
-austin
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On 9/7/06, Gavin Kistner <gavin.kistner@anark.com> wrote:
From: James Britt [mailto:james.britt@gmail.com]
I think the lobby is a public space until you misbehave enough to get
tossed out. Same for the bar. So you can catch the hallway track.
Is there really a 'hallway track', or are you just poking fun at my
sore spots?
I didn't attend it, but I hear that one of the more interesting
discussions happened around behaviour driven development by the pool in
San Diego last year (I think that I was a bit jet-lagged and therefore
didn't attend that). It was in no way an officially planned event.
It was a remarkable sight: a spontaneous pool-side discussion that
actually had more people at it than attended the first RubyConf in
2001!