[melbourne-pug] Group Project summary and ideas

[Richard Jones]

On Mon, 20 Jun 2005 12:40 pm, Peter Galaxy wrote:
> - Have a couple of people give lightning talks (5-10 minutes) on 
> their pet projects or proposals one month (July if people are ready: after
> the main presentation. Could go on for a number of months if there are
> enough presentations)

I definitely like this approach.


> - Have a 10 minute attempt to meet consensus on which project(s) we'd like
> to take up as a group (August)

I'd say that once lightning talks are given, all other organisation may be 
done in a wiki (on wiki.python.org), with emails to this list if absolutely 
necessary (but preferrably not).


> - Organise a sprint to get people involved, to be run after the main
> meeting (October)

A sprint organised around the OSDC would be a good idea, then non-Melbournian 
attendees can sprint too. We just do all the hard work of organising it. Of 
course, when I say "we" I mean someone other than me ;)


> If anyone would be scared away by 10-20 minutes of the meeting being taken
> up by lightning talks and sceduling, please say so.

Lightning talks are always good value, regardless of whether someone would 
want to get involved in a project. It's always good to hear what others are 
doing, and a short 5-10 minute lightning talk is a great medium for getting a 
bit of publicity. Also, lightning talks are fun as hell. In fact, I'd like to 
see a good 20 minutes or so devoted to 4 lightning talks every time we get 
together. If we can't make up the 4, then we gang up on each other and get 
people to just talk about cool modules they've used recently :)

Could be a good meeting format. Lightning talks followed by an in-depth 
presentation by someone?


> I don't know much about
> either so I'd like to see Richard and Maurice "volunteer" to give short
> (5-10 minute) presentations on these projects in July or August if they're
> willing and able, along with anyone else who has ideas.

Definitely.


> I'd like to see us 
> make the group project a part of, but not the central part of, PUG
> meetings.

Amen.


     Richard
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