Partner Event - CAMUG Global Day of Retreat - Calgary

The Global Day of Code Retreat is an international event initiated by Corey Haines and organized by local facilitatorsfacilitators with the goal of running as many parallel coderetreats world-wide on a single day as possible. Besides bringing people together to hone their skills and have fun, an important goal is to raise the awareness of coderetreats and to focus on improving concrete skills of software developers. Corey also has hinted about a couple major initiatives being officially unveiled on the day.

The event will take place over 32 hours on December 3rd, 2011. Corey will facilitate the first coderetreat in Sydney, Australia, take a 6pm flight, cross the dateline and facilitate the last one in Honolulu, Hawaii. All the while, coderetreats will be weaving around the global in the other direction. As coderetreats begin and end in the different timezones, they’ll be keeping in touch over video- and voice connections.

So far more than 70 cities have registered a coderetreat, and the list is growing. With an average attendance of at least 20 people, this translates to over 1000 passionate software developers all participating on the same day. Registered coderetreats are listed on the global map of coderetreats, so it is easy to figure out where the nearest event takes place.

So far global sponsors like JetBrains, ThoughtWorks, Pernix and Pragmatic Programmers have added their support to the event. The organizers are looking for more sponsors to support Corey’s travel and worthwhile giveaways for the attendees. Around the event there will be widespread media coverage (e.g. by InfoQ) to support the goal of expanding the awareness of coderetreats and software development practices.

A code retreat is a whole day long excercise in Pair Programming and TDD and it is free of charge. However the seat is limited so you need to register as early as you can. 

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