Details of NYC coderetreat can be found here:

http://nameofsitegoeshere.tumblr.com/post/14079791798/gdcr

Of the 50 participants that rsvp'ed to the event, about 25 showed up:

www.meetup.com/sfcoderetreat

We started at 9:30 am and our general plan for the day was the following:

A write up of my thoughts on Dallas' Global Day of Code Retreat can be found here:

http://proctorit.wordpress.com/2011/12/10/global-day-of-code-retreat-thought-dump/

Happy Practicing,

--Proctor

In Vienna, we had 15 participants (of the 25 that registered).

In the first session, we did not induce any challanges, as expected. But, although I had a very clear plan about which exercises should be done in which session, I needed to change it for the simple reason, that the skill level of the participants varied a lot:

While some still had a problem in understanding GoL after the second

session, others already ping-pong'ed in the first one. Additionally,

they used…

Here are my notes from Global Day of Coderetreat - Beijing:

http://meekrosoft.wordpress.com/2011/12/08/retrospective-global-day-of-coderetreat-beijing/

See you all next year!

./mike

Organizing the event

- I contacted professor at University of Calgary and they willing to sponsor for the event. So my lesson here is you need to know the right people and contact the right people then things will go smoothly for you. We need to sort out the few things like wireless for 20 people, food/beverages, etc ...

- I were worry that we don't get enough interested people. But thanks to COREY and OTHER PREVIOUS ORGANIZERS…

My post about the day in Milan. 

http://tonyxzt.blogspot.com/2011/12/global-day-of-coderetreat-in-milan.html

It was at great experience.

Thank all.

Tony

Hi!!!

Thank you Corey for that awesome #gdcr11 :)

Here is a post that explains how we had fun at Runroom (Barcelona):

http://www.runroom.com/en/2011/12/global-day-of-coderetreat-barcelona/

It's in spanish, catalan and english! ;) Watch the video!!!!

Keep enjoying!

I've posted notes from the global event in Hungary to the following page:
http://alternateillusion.com/global-day-of-coderetreat-budapest

Hi All,

 my relation from Cracow 2011 Code Retreat can be found here: http://kaczanowscy.pl/tomek/2011-12/code-retreat-cracow-2011-been-there-done-that

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Cheers,

Tomek Kaczanowski 

Hi,

Here is my blog post on the subject. Enjoy.

Thank you very much to Corey and team.

Carlos Peix

Cross-posted from mikeebert.tumblr.com

On Saturday I joined 30 developers here in Chicago along with 2200 other developers around the world for the Global Day of Code Retreat. It was a day co-founded by Code Academy mentor Corey Haines to help developers grow by pairing up with different people over…

I have authored a post on my experience in the Global Day of Code Retreat 2011. I cannot repost it here, but it is available on DZone.

Here’s what you do. On Saturday morning, at ridiculous o’clock (i.e. around 8), you walk into a room which has a delicious breakfast all laid out. There are some people running about shouting at each other about “sessions” and “calls”, but you ignore them in favour of the sweet pastries, fresh fruit and hot coffee sitting on the counter. When you’re done, you take out your laptop, and someone with a funny haircut floats over to remind you that you should have a test environment set up for…

Our coderetreat in Indianapolis went very well - exceeded my expectations! Of course, it was my first time doing anything with coderetreat, and it was just me: hosting, facilitating, etc. so I really didn't know what to expect. :)

We had 17 people register for the event, and 13 of them showed up. I highly recommend charging a refundable fee to attend - I think it made a huge difference in helping provide that "psychic weight" for people when it came to attending or not. And on the…

Hi everybody!

In Madrid we had an awesome time in this very special day of the Global Day of Coderetreat.

I will blog about the experience sometime soon, but I prepared a video of the event yesterday while relaxing.

I hope you like it!

Enrique

Global day of Coderetreat Madrid 2011 from…

Our session was held in a training room that was perfect for the event; enough plug points, desks, a/c, projector, flip-chart, kitchen close-by etc which made things easier. Originally 16 people had registered; 2 had cancelled beforehand because of other commitments and 1 did not pitch, so we were left with 13 which was a good showing. We had 6 pairs with one pair consisting of three. 11 of the developers were C# developers, while 2 were using python. Most of the attendees were…

Cross-posted from http://www.chrisrice.co.uk/2011/12/05/global-day-of-code-retreat-2011/

This past Saturday was the 2011 Global Day of Code Retreat, a world-wide event during which over 2000 programmers in 90 cities came together to spend the day practicing the craft of software development. I was…