On Thu, Sep 1, 2016 at 10:32 AM, Brian Wolff bawolff@gmail.com wrote:
Last year there was an attempt to sort of do this (mostly by extending the word "developer" to mean new things). Largely those types of people didnt attend (although there were a few exceptions), however I remember being left wondering if they did attend, what would they do? It seems to me most sessions were about architecture design decisions that actually didnt affect anyone not working on the code (ie we were going to make the user visible feature either way, the question was do we use method x or method y in the backend). With that in mind. Otoh, its entirely possible that some of the sessions i didnt attend were more applicable to these groups.
With that in mind are you proposing the focus of event also change? Or do you think that these groups would be interested in it as is?
Yes, I think we *should* provide a focus for the event, and that the focus should be on users, use cases, and what we as developers need to do to achieve those things.
In my opinion we haven't had a strong focus to the event in the past, and it's limited what we accomplish there to largely making a set of technical presentations and having a few discussions that either don't produce a decision or don't have much affect on what actually happens after the summit.
(I'd be very interested also in some feedback on things that *have* worked well at MWDS in the past, as I'd love to encourage anything that has been productive! But I think we've not been successful in an architectural focus so far.)
-- brion