FOSS4G 2011 Code Sprint

Code Sprint - what's that?

A code sprint is about getting a group together to work on Open Source software, sitting around a table and sharing ideas. It's not just about writing code, as you know a project has many needs including documentation, testing, and providing feedback. What a better way to give feedback and give back to the project that you love than to spend a day with the project's developers. There are roles needed to be filled, no matter what your expertise.

With such a short timeframe (one day) you should probably use this page to set a specific goal for your project. But don't worry, if all you get done is actually sitting at the same table with the project's developers and talking about the next release, that is also great :)

Venue

For map and more details see

• Date: Saturday September 17th, 2011 (the day after the conference).
• Time: 9am-5pm  (timeandate) 
• Where: Tivoli Student Union building (a former brewery), Auraria Campus

Tivoli Student Union
900 Auraria Parkway
Denver, CO
OSM map

• Rooms: (each room has a 60-70 person capacity)
  • room 440/540 (bilevel)
  • room 640

What to Bring

• power bars (only outlets for 30 computers exist)

How to get there from the Sheraton

The easiest way to get there from the Sheraton is to catch the free shuttle bus along 16th Street to Larimer, then it's about a half mile walk from there (7-10 minutes) - just take a left on Larimer and keep going straight into the campus. More detail to come shortly on how to get to the exact rooms etc.

Sponsor

Please! contact organizers: Rafael Moreno, or Jeff McKenna

Questions/Comments/Ideas

• ask on the foss4g2011 mailing list (subscribe)

Additional Interested People

The following people are potentially interested in participating in sprinting activities though have not yet established a Workgroup.

• name:project

Workgroups

To participate, copy a project skeleton and start a section below for your project.

Project-name

Attending:

• user
• user

Goals:

• your goals

MapQuery

Attending:

• Volker Mische
• user

Goals:

• Making MapQUery more awesome
• Talk to OpenLayers 3 people about the future

PostGIS

Attending:

• Paul Ramsey
• Pierre Racine
• you?

Goals:

• Close bugs and triage for 2.0 release

Opticks

Attending:

• Kip Streithorst
• Trevor Clarke
• Michael Considine

Goals:

• TBD

Mapnik

I (Dane Springmeyer) can't make the code sprint (leaving the night of the 16th), so catch me during the conference to chat Mapnik coding.

OSGeo edu

Attending:

• Ari Jolma

Goals:

Possible things to do:

• Set up a repository for joint development of edu materials and kick-start a few projects