Re:Of Booze and Brogrammers
by garethsprice on Saturday April 14, 2012 @07:21PM
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Birds of a Feather. They're informal, ad-hoc meetings centered on a specific topic. Like if the topic of "unit testing" (for example) comes up a lot, someone might propose a BOF on unit testing and anyone interested can show up and ask questions, run a demo, etc.
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You'll also see them called "open spaces".
PyCon has some great ones although they were a little disappointing this year. A combination of the hotel layout and placement of the openspace proposal (sign up) board was not great.
Re:Of Booze and Brogrammers
by mattdeboard on Sunday April 15, 2012 @08:33AM
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I agree. The BOFs were often VERY hard to find, plus they were what felt like a 10-minute walk from the hotel lobby. I tried locating a few that I was interested in but didn't have much success.
PyCon 2012 was my first geek conference and left me a little disappointed.