CanastaCon

CanastaCon is a proposed conference for all things Canasta. The intended audience is for Canasta users and developers. If only developers attend, it will become a developers' summit focused on improving Canasta, and it would most likely just become the Canasta Developers' Summit. If users also attend, training sessions and brainstorming sessions will be held for how to use Canasta and how to improve Canasta, respectively.

Proposed schedule

Day 1 (Thursday): Talks and discussions

1. Keynote talk: State of Canasta — updates since the prior MediaWiki Users and Developers Conference.
2. Talks (if applicable)
3. Demos and tutorials (if applicable)
4. Roundtable discussions about various feature requests, bugs, and strategy ideas for Canasta. Every conference participant is encouraged to bring up whatever is on their mind.
5. Pick problems to solve for the next day's hackathon.

Day 2 (Friday): Hackathon!

1. Last call for new ideas, if anyone has any they came up with since the previous afternoon.
2. Decide what to work on first.
3. Everyone picks the ideas they want to work on.
4. At the end of the day, informal sync-up, presentation, and reflection of work achieved.

Day 3 (Saturday): Optional additional hackathon

This can be reserved in case one hackathon day is not enough and more work needs to be done. This day would be intended for developers only, so they can focus on making improvements to Canasta.

Location

The inaugural CanastaCon will either be located in Vancouver, British Columbia; Seattle, Washington; or somewhere in between, along the Interstate 5 corridor. This is because several main Canasta contributors reside in the Seattle—Vancouver binational urban agglomeration.

Cost

For now, the conference itself will be free. Attendees are responsible for paying for their own airfare and/or hotel accommodations if applicable.