coffee

[Chris Corrigan]

The gross irony of this whole thing of course is that programmers live on
coffee, and only at academic conferences would they even think of
restricting their access to it.  It would be interesting to think about what
volume of wiki code was actually produced WITHOUT coffee.  Coffee fuels
wiki.  These folks don;t stay up all night coding hacks to Ward's code while
sipping camomile tea.   :-)

Having coffee breaks 90 minutes apart at a conference for creative people is
like having a gas station every 700 miles on a turnpike.  Only some cars
will make it that far, and they'll be thirsty and nervous when they get
there!

Keep us posted!

Chris

On 12/7/06, Ted Ernst <ted at chicagohumanist.org> wrote:
>
> I'm on the organizing committee for WikiSym 2007, a traditional
> academic conference started in 2005, that Gerard Muller and I
> facilitated OST for in 2006.  On the committee email list we've been
> talking about how to further integrate OST into the rest of the
> conference.  The subject of the schedule came up and it was said that
> because we're co-located with OOPLSA (a huge traditional academic
> conference), we're stuck with their 90 minute sessions with 30 minute
> coffee breaks in between.  So, of course I had to point out that if we
> were using OST as written in the book, we wouldn't need to schedule
> the breaks, as we'd have the coffee out all the time and people would
> take care of themselves.
>
> Someone wrote back to say that at agile conferences, they use a
> schedule with coffee breaks in it and the OST works fine.  He said
> that: "turn the whole conference into a coffee break" isn't meant to
> say that literally coffee has to be available all the time.
>
> The next response was from Ward Cunningham, the Harrison Owen of the
> wiki-world.  He said that he can't believe how hard it is to get a cup
> of coffee at these conferences.  He says fantastic conversations are
> happening and by the time they break up, the coffee has been removed!
>
> I'll keep you posted on the WikiSym2007 coffee situation as
> developments arise. :-)
>
> peace,
> ted
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