Stuff in my head

Responsive Summit

So the dust has settled on the first Responsive Summit.

The day was really good - a really positive discussion around a topic that lots of us are figuring out as we go.

Bizarrely the whole thing seemed to get a little blown out of proportion which is a little odd. To clarify, this was not intended as an official event, the outcomes of which were never intended to inform any form of dogma around the subject. It was merely a bunch of people who kinda sorta know of each other via twitter getting together and having a good old natter about the problems we faced.

We figured that given that we’re all just making this stuff up, it’s better to share some of the ideas, techniques and problems we have in getting RWD to work and then put a summary up - in one place - for those conversations and any potential solutions for the problems discussed.

Half the battle with a distributed community like ours is that there are answers to a lot of these things out there. The trouble is they exist on random blogs, forums and personal sites. Finding it is a nightmare.

So one really positive thing that came out of yesterday is that one of us will stick together a site where we can pull all of that stuff together - owned by no-one in particular (other than to maintain it) but a place for the community to post “stuff” like snippets of CSS, JS, longform techniques etc… Then its up to all us to field test those bits and let the good stuff naturally float to the top  through voting or whatever. I know personally I have folders full of little experiments and I know plenty of others who do too.

I don’t want to get into the whole backlash thing - that’s just a little sad. Sure the name was a bit dumb. That was my bad but was meant to be silly and entirely tongue in cheek. Hey ho, you live and learn…

What I do want to mention though is how the whole thing came together over a couple of hours over twitter (here’s the whole thread for those who can be arsed) which in itself is a pretty amazing thing by itself and surely a good precedent for anyone else that wants to do something similar (hint).

So there we are. Wanted to get that down while it was fresh but we’ll be posting up a fuller summary of what went down later next week.