Philadelphia Code Sprint 2015 - Revision history

Wiki-Athompson: /* Lessons Learned */

2015-02-17T21:00:48Z

Lessons Learned

Wiki-Athompson: /* Lessons Learned */

2015-02-17T20:58:14Z

Lessons Learned

Wiki-Athompson: /* Recaps and Photos */

2015-02-17T18:01:36Z

Recaps and Photos

Wiki-Rcheetham: /* Recaps and Photos */ added section

2015-02-14T22:48:26Z

Recaps and Photos: added section

Wiki-Rcheetham: /* Budget */ updating budget links and adding Lessons Learned

2015-02-14T22:31:16Z

Budget: updating budget links and adding Lessons Learned

Wiki-Rcheetham: /* Costs */

2015-02-14T21:46:48Z

Costs

Wiki-Kazimi at 13:32, 12 February 2015

2015-02-12T13:32:27Z

Wiki-Kazimi at 04:17, 12 February 2015

2015-02-12T04:17:50Z

Wiki-Franiu at 03:18, 12 February 2015

2015-02-12T03:18:17Z

Wiki-Kazimi: /* Participants */

2015-02-11T23:57:48Z

Participants

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 * Attendance declined most on Friday - by mid-afternoon we had maybe 10-15 left who came to the final dinner.
 * We had evening activities (tour bus, bars/dinners, bowling, etc) planned for every evening and worried about getting accurate headcounts/numbers to these activity providers in advance. In general, about 60-80% of registered sprinters present during the daytime attended the evening activities. Activity providers were keen on setting minimum guaranteed guest counts but were happy to add extra people at the last minute.
 '''Travel Scholarships'''

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 '''Venue'''
-* Multiple rooms - Similar to Vienna, it was helpful to have a couple of breakout rooms to support breakout discussions and private phone calls
+* Multiple rooms - Similar to Vienna, it was helpful to have a couple of breakout rooms to support breakout discussions and private phone calls. We had 2 breakout rooms rented from the venue that were used extensively (multiple times every day), and a 3rd room that we did not have sole use of but was usually empty and occasionally useful.
-* WiFi - Having good bandwidth was pretty important; our selected venue had relatively poor quality WiFi but had plenty of network capacity, so we bought and configured our own WiFi router; this worked well and was much less costly than having a network provisioning firm.
+* WiFi - Having good bandwidth was pretty important; our selected venue had relatively poor quality WiFi but had plenty of network capacity (100Mbs uplink and downlink), so we bought and configured [http://www.netgear.com/home/products/networking/wifi-routers/wndr3700.aspx our own WiFi router]; this worked well and was much less costly than having a network provisioning firm. Based on speedtest.net, we were getting about 50Mbs up and 50Mbs down on the wifi and nobody complained about slow internet all week.
 '''Sponsors'''
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 '''Attendance'''
 * A significant portion (perhaps 20-30%) of the attendees do not stay the whole week
 * There were several local (Philadelphia region) attendees, but many local attendees signed up in the previous week and only attended some of the days - this doesn't seem surprising, but is worth noting for gauging attendance in advance
-* Attendance declined most on Friday
+* Attendance declined most on Friday - by mid-afternoon we had maybe 10-15 left who came to the final dinner.
 '''Travel Scholarships'''

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 == Recaps and Photos ==
 * https://www.flickr.com/photos/23696061@N03/sets/72157650338272669/
 == Lessons Learned ==

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	* We had planned to use the 2014 surplus, but the 2016 code sprint may return to Europe and the strong dollar means the value have been significantly diminished.		* We had planned to use the 2014 surplus, but the 2016 code sprint may return to Europe and the strong dollar means the value have been significantly diminished.

		+	== Recaps and Photos ==
		+	* https://www.flickr.com/photos/23696061@N03/sets/72157650338272669/

	== Lessons Learned ==		== Lessons Learned ==

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 == Budget ==
-Our expenses include:
+* A [https://docs.google.com/a/azavea.com/document/d/1eInBOaj8PF2V7U9kt4JRcrkhyI9puh2EdygCmulXa4I/ proposal] was prepared to request support from the OSGeo Board.
-We will cover our expenses in three ways:
+== Lessons Learned ==
-* sponsorships
+'''Venue'''
-* participant registration fees
+* Multiple rooms - Similar to Vienna, it was helpful to have a couple of breakout rooms to support breakout discussions and private phone calls
-* surplus from previous years
+* WiFi - Having good bandwidth was pretty important; our selected venue had relatively poor quality WiFi but had plenty of network capacity, so we bought and configured our own WiFi router; this worked well and was much less costly than having a network provisioning firm.

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 * Travel to Philadelphia
 * Accommodation for four nights
-* Registration fee (optional)
 == Project Plans ==

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 |38 || Jon Tehrani || US || Tuesday || Tuesday || Home || TBD || Definite
 |-
-|39 || Kanishka Azimi || US || Thursday || Thursday || Home || PDAL, libspatialindex || Definite
+|39 || Kanishka Azimi || US || Thursday || Thursday || Home || PDAL or libspatialindex || Definite
 |}

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 |39 || Kanishka Azimi || US || Thursday || Thursday || Home || TBD || Likely
 |}