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Things can and will go wrong

Burn File

We are organising SEI16. Everything was going smoothly... until it wasn't.

This repository is where we are keeping track of things that we didn't think were even possible to go wrong, but somehow did.

NOTE: All checked items on the list did, in fact, happen and yes, we did cry at times.

  • facility outage because of extra-holiday that was approved by the government the day before the event
  • mentor/coach shortage on a short-notice
  • university internet outage
  • coffee outage
  • facility access mix up leading to us getting blocked from entering the building in front of participants
  • raining all week (current streak: 7 days out of 7 possible we did it!)
  • arcade machines causing a short circuit
  • water leak in the event building
  • locked out of Heroku and no one knows why
  • sleep deprived president tries to make coffee and ends up shocking himself
  • car battery broke down
  • beer outage
  • minor car accident
  • minor car accident against a boulder
  • minor car accident involving an attendee of another event
  • tea outage (wait, we had tea?)
  • shipping company said they would definitely deliver Tuesday morning a package required on that same day. Turns out they forgot they didn't work Tuesday since it was Mardi Gras. They informed us about that mistake on Wednesday.
  • water leak finally made it into the conference room
  • guest speaker arriving 30 minutes late in the precise moment we were about to call it off
  • rm * on the wrong folder caused us to lose the source code of an app for a challenge. Somehow, there was no recent backup.
  • someone fell down a pit
  • polar bear attack