Developers from around the world gathered online for the 48 hours of the “day” of CodeRetreat in our virtual space-station.

What is Code Retreat

A coderetreat is a day of deliberate practice, far away of the pressure of getting things done. A space for you to try out Simple Design, Pairing, Test-Driven-Development, Ensemble dev and other practices.

🌏🌍🌎Coders of earth, unite!
T-27h53m to global, remote @coderetreat

Where? EVERYWHERE! Remotely, in a @gather_town space station.
When? Friday 12:00 UTC - Sunday 12:00 UTC
Sessions on the hour, every hour, whenever you join will be the right time.
Link? https://t.co/zxlXXstkhQ

— :David Campey (@davidcampey) November 3, 2022

The initiative was led by #MobRetreat co-creator Bob Allen, and took the global perspective that “Saturday” is technically 48 hours long, providing the impetus for a retreat spanning all the hours of Saturday.

This fitted well with Bob’s vision of a global, continuous “fluid mob”, which combined with the coderetreat format and ethos to create a great experience for all.

Ensembles... ensembling!

T+2h49m: groups getting into the groove of forming and self-organising, newcomers integrating, and folks generally having a great time!

Not too late to join!, we still have 45h11 minutes to go of #gdcr! pic.twitter.com/FktILrjRqM

— :David Campey (@davidcampey) November 4, 2022

This year we used the gather.town space station for the second time, and were joined by facilitators and participants around the world, around the clock. With co-sponsorship from Gather Inc, Coder:LevelUp was in the position sponsored the gather.town space, if you’d like to donate to help recover these costs, and make future events possible: https://www.backabuddy.co.za/champion/project/levelup-fundraiser

See you next year!