====== Planning meeting notes for 2008-07-15 ======

===== Attendees: =====

  * Igal Koshevoy
  * Ian Dees
  * Ed Borasky

===== Changes =====

  * Interacted with potential sponsors, competitors and speakers.
  * Created [[planning:todo]] page to track tasks and contacts.
  * Updated [[:competition]] page to more clearly define requirements and generalize terms so that we can accept any persistent storage mechanism, not just SQL databases.

===== How does voting work? =====

  * Ask audience members to raise their hand if they want to be on the judging panel. 
  * Pick someone outside our usual group that doesn't personally know many within the audience, and just have them randomly choose 10 people to be on the panel
  * After coding is done, the panel will rank each team to determine their ranked order

===== How does competition work with more than 3 teams? =====

  * We may have 5 teams: Rails, Django, Symfony, Drupal, Seaside.
  * We probably can only run 3 teams concurrently.
  * We can run two heats, one set of teams builds their apps, then the second team goes.
  * We can run Rails, Django, Symfony first, and the Seaside and Drupal teams second
  * We can sequester the later teams so they don't learn about the "secret ingredient" extra requirements until they start coding.

===== What's the competition schedule? =====

  * 5 minutes for intro
  * 20 minutes for first heat
  * 5 minutes for transition
  * 20 minutes for second heat
  * 10 minutes for judging and awards