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I posted the link in my university's facebook group today and two people complained they didn't really get what RailsCamp is about.

I think a short explanation on the main site would help. Something along the lines of the blog post, but also mentioning that it's about Rails (but not limited to topics around Rails, also Ruby). I'm not good at formulating this, but it will definitely help to get info about this event to total beginners.

We were asked if we could give out a donation receipt for multiple ticket purchases.

1. Can we give receipts so that they are tax relevant for Germany?
2. What would be the amount? The payed sum or our 'cut'?

@thilo Do you know more?

Some of you might know Bunte Burger. It's a mobile burger grillerei from Cologne. I had the idea to have them at the Abenteuerhallen on Friday. @Mobbit and I would love to have them there - because it's all vegan and really tasty! : )

Speaking of Friday: What about having a party? Wasn't it already planned for last year? But I don't remember a party (or I just missed it). Party is not a must-have, but it would be nice to have something special for those who already arrive on Friday - something like Bunte Burger! : )

Any opinions, ideas, additions?

Like last year, let's go and do some marketing.

Here are some potentially worthwhile things to try:
email/twitter to ruby usergroups
write to the main ruby news outlets: rubyflow, ruby weekly, ruby5, ...
invite other rubyists personally
do some marketing in our neighbor countries: netherlands, belgium, poland, france, switzerland, austria, ...
Any other ideas are welcome!

what I did so far:
Post on:
https://www.ruby-forum.com/topic/5014057#1150688
https://plus.google.com/117385509303644635034/posts/X4JmyR6mMKE
https://plus.google.com/117385509303644635034/posts/FypBavFpnD9

something like:

• jsunconf 2014
• froscon
• eurucamp sessions (sessions.railscamp.de)

Create Document with sponsoring options:

• Captians (1000 €)
• Lieutenants (500 €)
• Sailors (250 €)
• (Smutje, Barista, Navigator)
• (2 x 1000 € Party Sponsor)

Contant:

• describe benefits
• actions after sponsoring (Twittern)
• presentation options at camp
• taking care onside

Instead of using the direct link to the session planning provider we could put the content into an iframe located on our 2014.railscamp.de website.

Goal: Create a "railscamp_de" newsletter to inform all the potentially interested people with progress and useful information about the event

• import emails from last years attendees
• broadcast that the newsletter exists and that everybody that's interested should sign up
• integrate a signup form on the new website

http://titanpad.com/BSc5bPt5S3

@jhilden is there a list of participants with gender/country etc. for little dataviz?
@ALL other data aside from lanyrd (number of tracks/length) and ideas are welcome...

Where could guests sleep?

I think the skate hall would be only usable on Friday night and Saturday from 22:00.

We will need equipment and people to set it up.

@thilo can you tell us exactly what kind of equipment the Ruby e.V. has bought and how we would be able to use it (shipping, etc.)?

@timbuchwaldt @zakx would you be willing to work your magic again this year?

@marcel12bell and @erdnusskeks are at this.

Whoohoo,
I'm looking forward to another awesome RailsCamp weekend in cologne. And traveling by train with some peeps from the greater Bremen area (Hamburg, e.g.) would be really great!

So let's do do some planning on that.

Traveling time is around 4h from Hamburg. I would prefer connections without train changes.

So, what's your preferred traveling time? Currently I'm not sure, maybe somewhen in the later friday afternoon might be a good arrival time.

http://reiseauskunft.bahn.de/bin/query2.exe/dn?ld=9642&seqnr=4&ident=i4.02386742.1407872608&rt=1&rememberSortType=minDeparture&REQ0HafasScrollDir=1

Hello,

I just wanted to say that I am missing PayPal as a payment method.
Now I got my ticket but fo next year, it would be cool <3

Best

Ute

Maybe we can use that a little bit for marketing: http://de.dawanda.com/s/Events/32071-Lange-Nacht-des-Selbermachens

We decided that we will have simpler badges than last year. Just the red-white striped tape from last year and the particapant name on it.

@erdnusskeks will order the supplies

• tape
• pens to write
• klebepunkte (to vote for sessions, ~10-20 p.p.)

We will also need people to man the reception area, hand out badges, take in cash, ...

I'm new to Ruby eg Rails, therefore I would like to get in contact with experienced people who could help with taking the steep learning curve of Ruby/Rails.

I didn't read many of already posted issues, yet I have an idea of offering two "Ruby/Rails Beginner Workshops" at the summit. The idea is, that everyone who wants to participate in those workshops is suggested to finish the following Codecademy courses:

• Ruby - http://www.codecademy.com/en/tracks/ruby
• HTML & CSS - http://www.codecademy.com/en/tracks/web

This would give the learner the chance to find specific topics which are difficult to understand and also raises the workshop level to an all in all almost same student's knowledge level.

Therefore, the teachers ...

• know exactly which knowledge level is present
• which topics every student took
• can prepare himself to a certain level of knowledge
• and can develop an even better "on the job" development example to teach further things.

On the other side, the students ...

• are initially motivated to finalize the basic concepts of Ruby
• they are giving a hand by Codecademy students
• they gain more confidence by participating in the course
• they see exactly see with which topics they have further questions
• the entire class starts with almost the same level.
• they could group together before they see each other in the workshop
• are well motivated to participate in this workshop
• and they will gain even more confidence in asking questions

Benefits:

• The workshop will be the right place to ask all unclear topics
• It may be more interesting for each student, because everyone can ask the really important issues
• Students help each other while also have their own questions
• No one has to be shy to ask questions on the Codecademy course's topics
• The open topics are explained by experienced teachers in class.
• It's easier to ask questions for students
• The students learn from difficulties they or others had

OMG, I wrote so much. To sum it up, I think you get the idea. Now it's on you to say what do you think of that spontaneous idea :)

Hi,
speziell @thilo
Die Rechnung ist nicht sonderlich 'nett' formuliert (bzw. halt gar nicht formuliert). Ein Dankeschön im Anschreiben, in der Rechnung, etc. wäre super. Nur so als Feedback vom Sponsor.

I don't know if that was discussed already with anyone here. so I better ask. last year we offered a 10% discount to joint sponsors. We like to keep it that way again this year. cc @jhilden @erdnusskeks

Who will take care of the BBQ on Saturday? @schorsch, will this be under your command like last year? : )

Of course all participants will have the opportunity to camp at the venue "like a pro". See: http://2014.railscamp.de/venue/ Otherwise this event wouldn't qualify as a real RailsCAMP.

All others can use this issue to offer/request/share/ask for other accommodation options in Cologne.

Here are some upcoming dates of Ruby Usergroups. Let's try to reach those groups at the right time and make sure they know about the Railscamp.

• 3.9. (maybe) http://bremen.onruby.de/
• 4.9. http://dresden.onruby.de/events/vortrag-domain-focused-rails
• 4.9. http://berlin.onruby.de/
• 10.9. http://hamburg.onruby.de/events/ruby-usergroup-hamburg-september-2014

Any other dates you know?

This issue is for people to find shared transportation to the camp.

For example @nerdbabe started a very nice initiative to share a train connection from Berlin https://github.com/NerdBabe/RailsCampTrain/issues/1
I would say the same could be possible for participants coming from the Hamburg area (@colszowka ? @erotte ?) or from the south of Germany.

We should have a feedback board like jsunconf had one. This would be a good place for people to leave some feedback on the event. Would anyone organize this?

(Btw, we’re talking not about a digital board here ;-)

I wrote to the Abenteuerhallen last week and again today. Wednesday evenings they always have their team meeting and I hope to hear from them after that.

Again, here are the potentially possible dates, in prioritized order:

1. 26-28 Sep
2. 30-31 Aug
3. 15-17 Aug

In the mailinglist the question arised why we not use the coc of the Ruby e.V. I like that idea.

https://github.com/rubyberlin/code-of-conduct

The people behind the Coderdojo Cologne (https://www.facebook.com/coderdojocgn), are planning to have session during the Camp. The objective is to teach "coding" to children (of roughly ages 7-14).

Let's collect all information about the dojo here.

Date: Since the the Coderdojo events have been on Saturdays in the past, I would think it will take place on the Saturday of the camp the 27.9.

Location: If the small room upstairs is enough I think we should block that room for Saturday. If more space is needed we need to figure out something else.

Coaches: @marcel12bell @moonglum @erdnusskeks @bascht @seanlilmateus @koos ...

Here is a link to their last event: https://zen.coderdojo.com/dojo/385

Send emails to relevant university deparment mailing lists in the area.

Who can send an email to FH Sankt Augustin? @DonSchado

Who can send an email to FH Köln Informatik? @koos @tmschndr @stephanpavlovic

Most of the required information is in this blogpost: http://2014.railscamp.de/news/2014/05/30/join-us-for-another-epic-railscamp-germany.html

We will need several projectors for the rooms.

• Mainhall, will need a GOOD projector due to large area
• Room 1
• Room 2

Is there a need to get additional audio equipment? The venue offers a sound system including 2 wireless microphones and 2 headsets. See last year meeting notes

Last year issue #3

Sebastian,

could you please setup DNS for 2014.railscamp.de? (Same procedure as every year, we are going to recycle the website of the last railscamp ;-)

thanks!
thomas

I like to put and ling to the project from the RubyBerlin site, would be nice if I can get a logo.

It currently leads to an very outdated mixxt community. Can we redirect to 2014.railscamp.de?

We have the online session tool at https://openspacer.org/13-railscamp-germany-2014/ which works really nice so far, but how is it going to happen on-site? Who wants to take care of this?

@moonglum ? @koos ? @Mobbit ?

@thegcat you said at one point you might be able to do moderation during the event?

Whoever is in charge here, I've noticed that http://www.railscamp.de is not redirecting properly.. http://railscamp.de works like a charm

Until we have a real session planning tool we can collection session ideas here:

• http://www.buerogolf-deutschland.de/
• remote control car racing
• Siebdruckworkshop

kthxbye

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I guess we should advise all potential speakers to keep their slides in black on white style, especially for code snipets.

I found it rather difficult to read some slides in the room at the froscon. I guess, even with a good projector, it will be even harder to read at the venue.

@erdnusskeks maybe you can tweet about it or even add a blog entry? or whoever is in charge.

We should have the followings rooms/areas:

• Main stage
• Lounge/Bar (drinks, coffee, fingerfood, chillout)
• Outside area (tent, beer garden)
• Main room upstairs (for up to 30-40 ppl)
• Small room upstairs (for 10-20 ppl)
• Siebdruck room upstairs
• Skate hall (from 22:00 until 12:00, for sleeping)

Feedback from last year was that the Main stage and the Lounge were a little too close to each other. Maybe we can find a better solution for this this year.