Guido:
I suppose you mena
http://www.zope.org//Wikis/DevSite/Projects/ComponentArchitecture/CMSprintPr
eparation
We could certainly do something like that, and probably pre-publish the
lightning tutorial material for the especially clueless :-)
It would also add flavor to the tutorials to have first-timer war stories, I
guess.
regards
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Guido van Rossum"
Would it make sense to have mini-classes throughout the conference? I'd hate to sit down with each new person and have to teach, ssh, cvs, sf (maybe roundup by march?), etc.
Perhaps we could have short classes/tutorials throughout the conference. Maybe a half-hour to an hour. That way people could learn or improve the skills they don't have.
Good idea! But since the sprints are planned Mon/Tue, i.e. *before* the conference, this would have to be done on the first morning of the sprint.
For the Zope3 sprint in Rotterdam we had a Wiki page (and reminder emails) for all participants to encourage them to set up and test their ssh/cvs setup on their laptop *before* coming to the sprint, so we wouldn't waste time on that.
--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)