Mailman 3 April 2017 - Pycon-sprints

Re: [Pycon-sprints] Shareable link: to register to support the Intro to Sprinting Workshop
by Ewa Jodlowska May 20, 2017

May 20, 2017

It will be in room C123+C124 both days at the Oregon Convention Center. I will add this to the sign up form. Once the form goes live, let me know and I will add it to: https://us.pycon.org/2017/community/sprints/ Thanks for creating the form, Chalmer. BTW - I shared your curriculum for the course with Brandon and Ernest and they are both excited to see the improvements! PS. let us use pycon-sprints(a)python.org going forward instead of adding in individual email addresses. This way we ensure … [View More]

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Notes from today's meeting and alias for mentors
by Ewa Jodlowska May 9, 2017

May 9, 2017

Hi all, Below are the notes from today's call. Sorry if some are in such short form :) To summarize: We will do the Intro to Sprints Workshop over two days. Sunday evening for two hours for interactive lectures and Monday morning for 1.5 hours for answering any questions and having sprinters practice what they learned. Alias for mentors to use: sprint-mentors(a)python.org. They can sign up here: https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/sprint-mentors ---------------------------------------… [View More]--------------------------------------------- Notes from April 18, 2017 Call ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ - Chalmer: Expand on what we have done the past two years - Chalmer thinks that there was a lack of: - Hands on during the sprints intro - There was no presentation for visual learners - Some people had prepped material but it was not in one place for people to access - Chalmer suggests starting with: https://github.com/chalmerlowe/intro_to_sprinting - Walk through presentation and do hands on, repeat - Have mentors in the room to help answer questions - Give them an hour to 1.5 hours to practice the skills and ask as many questions as possible - 2 hours of interactive lectures and then 1.5 hours of practice - After they finish that, they have the take away and they have links to references to learn more - They tried it at PyOhio and then in Hawaii for the second time. They are trying it for the third time at a meet up in Hawaii - Virtual env, packages in your ve, GitHub, forking projects, copy onto hard drive, committed, pushed, troubleshooting, merge and pushing it back up, pull request, since lather and repeat - Asheesh: asked about material - Asheesh: small groups thing instead of one large group - Kushal: repo is good material, not too much info but has most relevant detail. Kushal is happy that it has been tried. Two major important points: it’s ok to walk out of a sprint and check out other sprints. Don’t be afraid to ask questions during the sprints. - Chalmer: third item to add to that: The sprint leader is there to help you so don’t feel shy to ask help from them - Chalmer: nuance for technical part: did not re-create documentation for everything and wanted to keep things small scale. Have pointers to learn more. - Ewa: logistical needs: tables for typing. Maybe move to open space room? How many mentors do we need? - Chalmer: what if we do it on Monday morning? - Kushal: Sprint leaders may start in the morning and some people only stay for one day - Chalmer: half of the workshop on Sunday and half of it on Monday. - Ewa: good idea - Asheesh: good idea. We will have monitors available on Sunday but less so on Monday because mentors will be working on sprints. - Group decision to split between two days - Chalmer: how do we get mentors? Blog/tweets? Request that we want them there for both parts (Sunday and Monday). - Chalmer will create google form. Kushal will add it to his blog. Will get blog updated by EOD US time. Anything else we need to add? - Chalmer: Kushal to add link to GitHub in blog post - Ewa: to get space for both parts ironed out - Chalmer: alias for mentors so we can send out updates? - Ewa: ML? - Chalmer: Separate ML for mentors, Ewa to create. - Kushal: we can ping local python folks with blog? - Asheesh: taking on table duty Monday and Tuesday - Kushal: helping table duty on Monday - Sprint Ambassador stickers again this year? Asheesh asks what was the value of this in 2016? Chalmer says it was announced at the intro workshop. - Chalmer: we will be adding more pictures to the material to help people visualize. Best regards, Ewa Director of Operations Python Software Foundation Cell: 415-319-5237 [View Less]

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[Just FYI] Seating Capacity for Intro to Sprints Workshop
by Ewa Jodlowska April 21, 2017

April 21, 2017

Hey all - We will be able to seat 180 at the Intro to Sprints workshop so I think we will be fine capacity wise. See attached floor plan. Best regards, Ewa Director of Operations Python Software Foundation Cell: 415-319-5237

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Beginner Friendly Sprint Groups
by Ewa Jodlowska April 19, 2017

April 19, 2017

Hey all, A couple months ago we added this[1] form to the Sprints page. There are a few responses on there. I will forward future notification of new additions to this alias. Maybe contacting these folks to be mentors for Sunday evening would be a good idea. [1] https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/13HAwZbMEqm7xWRohhqksiRS2KBYG5WAr7uf… Best regards, Ewa Director of Operations Python Software Foundation Cell: 415-319-5237

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Call to Discuss Intro to Sprints WS & Other Sprints stuff
by Ewa Jodlowska April 17, 2017

April 17, 2017

Hey all, Sorry for the late ping, but I was OOO until today. We are going to have our call tomorrow at 11am ET (6am HAST/9am PT/12pm ET). Let us call into the PSF line: Join the call: https://www.uberconference.com/python Optional dial in number: 877-775-9779 Alternate number: 415-968-8303 No PIN needed I will send a calendar notification now. Best regards, Ewa Director of Operations Python Software Foundation Cell: 415-319-5237

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Doodle for next week's call
by Ewa Jodlowska April 10, 2017

April 10, 2017

Hey sprints planning folks, Here's the Doodle for our chat about the Intro to Sprints workshop and other Sprints topics: https://doodle.com/poll/dir2e2693a9r49ui Please mark the times you are available by Wednesday of this week if possible. I will be going out of town Thursday and won't be back until Monday of next week. Best regards, Ewa Director of Operations Python Software Foundation Cell: 415-319-5237

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