Mailman 3 May 2017 - Pycon-sprints

Some feedback on the Sprinting Workshop...
by Chalmer Lowe May 23, 2017

May 23, 2017

One of our attendees supplied this feedback <https://github.com/chalmerlowe/intro_to_sprinting_codeless_project/pull/33#…> about the Intro to Sprinting workshop: * in a comment * on a pull request * in github * that they successfully initiated Woot! We also collected some feedback via the 'dead-tree' method. I will memorialize that and provide later, but wanted to get this in your hands. All told, we had approximately 80 attendees AND 20 mentors. Asheesh Laroia deserves mad kudos for … [View More]

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Changing rooms?
by Rishi Gupta May 23, 2017

May 23, 2017

Hi everyone, Thanks for all your work organizing the sprints! The room we were in today (B116) was a bit too cold and had wifi bandwidth issues; it felt like we were losing contributors due to those issues. Any ideas on how we could solve the temperature and wifi issues for tomorrow? We would be happy to move rooms, but weren't sure where we should go. We are a fairly large group (around 50 people steady state today, and expecting the same tomorrow). Are there any rooms that you think could … [View More]

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Fwd: "PyCon Sprint Questionaire (Responses)" was edited recently
by Ewa Jodlowska May 21, 2017

May 21, 2017

Another one. Best regards, Ewa Director of Operations Python Software Foundation Cell: 415-319-5237 ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Google Docs <notify(a)google.com> Date: Sun, May 21, 2017 at 8:39 AM Subject: "PyCon Sprint Questionaire (Responses)" was edited recently To: jodlowska2(a)gmail.com See the changes in the Google Document "PyCon Sprint Questionaire (Responses)": Click here <https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/13HAwZbMEqm7xWRohhqksiRS2KBYG5WAr7uf…> … [View More]

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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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Fwd: "PyCon Sprint Questionaire (Responses)" was edited recently
by Ewa Jodlowska May 20, 2017

May 20, 2017

Hey all - Just giving you a heads up that someone added an entry yesterday. You all should have access to the google spreadsheet. Best regards, Ewa Director of Operations Python Software Foundation Cell: 415-319-5237 ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Google Docs <notify(a)google.com> Date: Fri, May 19, 2017 at 10:53 PM Subject: "PyCon Sprint Questionaire (Responses)" was edited recently To: jodlowska2(a)gmail.com See the changes in the Google Document "PyCon Sprint … [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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newcomer question
by Regan Huff May 9, 2017

May 9, 2017

Dear organizers: I am attending PyCon for the first time this year; I am a student at Ada Developers Academy, relatively new to programming and entirely new to development sprints. I would be interested in taking part in the Introduction to Sprints workshop on Sunday/Monday, but I can only stay for the sprints on Monday as I have to get back to class. Is it worthwhile to participate for such a short time? Many thanks for any advice you can offer -- Best regards, Regan

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