[IPython-dev] [jupyter] Experimenting with a modified dev meeting format?

[MinRK]

On Mon, Jun 29, 2015 at 5:56 PM, Fernando Perez <fperez.net at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On Sat, Jun 27, 2015 at 8:07 PM, MinRK <benjaminrk at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I think turning Tuesdays into check-ins/reports is a good idea. Having
>> just one or two topics for actual in-depth meetings with smaller groups
>> should definitely be more effective.
>>
>
> OK, here's a wrap-up and my suggested path forward, so we can call this
> thread done, unless someone objects strenuously to something.  As usual, we
> will fine-tune over time as we learn from experience...
>
> -  Let's go with a max of 5 minutes per person on reporting of activity.
>
>
> - When reporting, you should try make sure what you say answers the
> following questions for the others:
>
> * What have I been working on?
> * What do I plan on working on?
> * What things are preventing me from making progress?
>
> This will ensure that everyone leaves knowing what everyone is up to, and
> that we can effectively help each other, identify where resources are
> needed, bottlenecks, etc.
>
>
> - We try to take notes as usual collectively on Hackpad, BUT, we designate
> a person each week who has an explicit responsibility that week to spend a
> bit of time after the meeting making sure the notes make sense and posting
> them to the Jupyter list. Hopefully that won't take more than a few
> minutes, if the collective note-taking was sufficient.
>
> This will give us a static record on the list of each week's meeting,
> which is better than just having a doc on hackpad.
>
> I volunteer to be the note-poster for tomorrow.
>
>
> - Let's keep the total meeting time to 1h, hard limit.  Tomorrow, we're
> going to use a trick to enforce that: our nice videoconferencing room at
> BIDS is booked at 11am every other Tuesday, so we'll get kicked out
> anyways.  We could obviously use another one, but instead we'll use the
> room with the better audio equipment and be forced to stay on schedule :)
>
>
> Did I miss anything?
>

Sounds like a good plan. See you all tomorrow.

-MinRK


>
> Cheers,
>
> f
>
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