[LRUG] London Web Week

[wendy]

We did this on Java once, at an EJUG meeting, and had 3 different (java) 
persistence solutino providers each speak for a maximum of 5 minutes and 
do a demo for maximum 5 minutes, one after another and we also had 
representatives of 3 further persistence frameworks in the audience. The 
rest was just panel questions, answers discussions - and this was one of 
the best sessions we've ever done... If anyone interested how format 
worked, the podcast is here:

David Salgado wrote:
> I think it sounds really interesting. I'd certainly want to attend, 
> although I don't know if I'd be up to participating!
>
>  
> You'd have to be really careful about the chosen problem though, to 
> ensure it was fair to all the chosen frameworks. e.g. a company 
> website + intranet + wiki with signup, email password recovery and 
> roles-based access control including delegation takes about half an 
> hour to setup using Plone. I'm sure other frameworks have other 
> strengths, of course. 
>
>  
> Also, you'd have to think about what you would allow in terms of 
> scaffolds/templates/plugins. If it was a social networking problem, 
> would the rails team be allowed to start from http://lovdbyless.com/ 
> (and the equivalent with other frameworks).
>
>  
> Cheers
>
>  
> David
>
>
> On 03/04/2008, *Murray Steele* <murray.steele at gmail.com 
> <mailto:murray.steele at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     It's been announced: http://www.londonwebweek.co.uk/
>
>     Whilst doing the dishes (I'm so rock and roll) I had an idea for
>     an event that might fit in with LWW.  I freely admit that it might
>     be awful or overly complex but please bear with me.
>
>     Web Framework Code-off!
>
>     There are loads of web frameworks, and we'd all like to know what
>     the differences are between them so we can choose which one to use
>     in our next app.  So the simplest solution to this would be to
>     have someone talk about each one.  Taking it a little bit further,
>     seeing a real app built with each framework would be nice.  Of
>     course, seeing the *same* app built with each framework would be
>     even better.
>
>     I imagine something like this: teams of 4 would pick a web
>     framework and register their participation (so we don't have
>     everyone using the same framework).  On a Friday afternoon
>     (probably the weekend before the first weekend of LWW) the web app
>     to be built would be announced and come the following Monday
>     afternoon the teams would submit their code.  The code would be
>     made available online for perusal and at some point later during
>     LWW all the teams would get together and talk about their chosen
>     frameworks in them context of their solution.
>
>     Note - there's nothing about this idea that demands the frameworks
>     be ruby-based.  We could easily open this up to involve the other
>     language user groups.
>
>     Does this even sound remotely like a thing people would want to
>     participate in or attend?
>
>     Muz
>
>
>     On 30/03/2008, *Murray Steele* <murray.steele at gmail.com
>     <mailto:murray.steele at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>         Hi all,
>
>         Patrick Griffiths has been in touch with me asking if LRUG
>         would like to host an event during London Web Week.  In his
>         words LWW is:
>
>             a collection of events that will be taking place between
>             the 26th May and 1st June this year.
>
>             The line-up so far includes BarCamp, @media 2008, a WSG
>             evening event, a microformats/semantics evening event, a
>             conference for web design beginners, and several purely
>             social events/parties.
>
>             The idea is that the whole is greater than the sum of its
>             parts, that each event within London Web Week will gain
>             wider exposure, and hopefully web design and development
>             (and best practices within them) will also gain wider
>             exposure in themselves.
>
>
>         It sounded pretty good and couldn't hurt for us to be involved
>         in some way, so I got some more info about what kind of event
>         he'd like us to organise:
>
>             the idea was for each event to be autonomous and to run as
>             they
>             would normally, so, in your case, the usual thing -
>             something for the
>             Ruby community rather than making a special effort to
>             attract people to
>             it (not that that couldn't be achieved too, of course).
>
>             There will be lots of different events going on, so
>             hopefully there will
>             be things to appeal to people from lots of different
>             backgrounds, but I
>             think if we attempt to make all events all things to all
>             people, it
>             would probably be a mistake.
>
>
>             I would suggest Tuesday, Wednesday, or Thursday evening.
>             There are other
>             events happening these evenings, but not ones that would
>             have too much
>             crossover (mostly being front-end development related).
>
>
>         So, first things to note are that this week doesn't fall into
>         our 2nd Monday of the month routine, in fact it's right slap
>         in the middle of our usual schedule.  So one of our normal
>         meetings won't naturally fall during LWW, so we'll have to
>         think about an event to put on (if we want to).  The second
>         thing to note is that there's the potential for lots of folk
>         to be away that week as the Monday is a bank holiday and
>         RailsConf USA & Caboose Conf start on the Thursday.
>
>         Options obvious to me (and feel free to suggest others) are:
>
>         1. Move the May or June meetings into this week and run them
>         as normal (if slightly out of usual routine)
>         2. Hold a special one-off meeting similar to our normal meetings
>         3. Organise an LRUG Nights
>         4. Organise some kind of LRUG Nights / normal meeting
>         crossover event - in a pub, mostly agenda free, but we perhaps
>         try to book space in a pub (maybe even one with AV equipment)
>         so that short presentations or demos can happen if folk want.
>         5. Do the pub quiz that Tom has lying about.
>
>         Anyone have any thoughts?  Patrick is announcing LWW on
>         Wednesday and he thought it'd be quite nice if he could at
>         least put "LRUG will do something on Xday evening during LWW"
>         in the announcement.  Option 3 seems like the easiest to
>         commit to, but it could easily be "upgraded" to one of the
>         other options as we see fit.
>
>         Muz
>
>
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