[python-uk] The London Python Dojo is this Thursday

[Jonathan Hartley]

I don't think this helps, but it's a model I think is otherwise widely 
applicable, so I'll spread the seed:

One model I've seen work well on game programming challenges is that 
self-selected leaders will each pitch their project vision, and then 
participants will decide which leader's team they would like to join. 
Leaders may also prefer other pitches to their own, and decide to revoke 
or merge pitches (generally, only one leader in a merged pitch will 
retain the 'leader' tag)

This has advantages that:

* self-selected leaders are vetted by the crowd. If they are revealed, 
during their pitch, to be blustering buffoons, then people can vote with 
their feet.

* everyone gets to work with the project/leadership that they choose, so 
in theory happiness is maximised (for everyone apart from the 'failed' 
project leaders.)

* projects which are popular are allocated correspondingly generous 
personpower.

The disadvantages are:

* It isn't remotely relevant to our current dojo format

* It doesn't give even distribution of team sizes

     Jonathan



On 12/07/13 20:53, xtian wrote:
> I like the sound of this - Scrapheap Challenge style. You're right, it 
> would take a bit more organisation though.
>
> On 12 Jul 2013, at 14:31, Alistair Broomhead 
> <alistair.broomhead at gmail.com <mailto:alistair.broomhead at gmail.com>> 
> wrote:
>
>> Something that may may not work (I guess it would take a fair amount 
>> of organisation) once a challenge has been picked, we ask people to 
>> volunteer as team leaders, they get a git repo set up and write 
>> tests, but their main role is to advise their team and give them a 
>> nudge on things which are stopping them from progressing. This would 
>> mean that each team has an 'expert', but I guess it would also mean 
>> people who were willing to take this role would have to bring a 
>> laptop off their own -an issue for me as I don't own one...
>>
>> On 12 Jul 2013 14:19, "Javier Llopis" <javier at correo.com 
>> <mailto:javier at correo.com>> wrote:
>>
>>
>>     >> Another person could simply say: mmm... interesting but... not
>>     for my
>>     >> level. And stop coming. Do you really want this?
>>     >
>>     > When all's said and done, if someone doesn't think it's for
>>     them, then
>>     > it's not for them. We can try to be as accommodating as
>>     possible, but
>>     > you can't please all the people all the time.
>>     >
>>
>>     ...And in this case, I would rather try to keep the expert coders in
>>     instead of the newbies. Better be challenged than bored.
>>
>>     Just my 2p
>>
>>     J
>>
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