[Inpycon] Development Sprints

[Kracekumar Ramaraju]

On Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 12:58 PM, Anand B Pillai <
anandpillai at letterboxes.org> wrote:

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> On Wednesday 15 October 2014 12:45 PM, Bibhas wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > As someone pointed out earlier and I also think that we don't have
> > enough activities at PyCon to engage newer developer. It's kind of
> > just people coming to venue, sitting at the audis all day long and
> > going home with some points that they might even forget in couple
> > of days.
> >
> > I think a development sprint is a great way to get people started
> > programming and contributing and networking. Like it's done in
> > most PyCons, after the conf is over, they take 2-5 days and
> > organize dev sprints that's open for everybody. I know we might not
> > have budget for that many extra days, but we have a whole floor(if
> > we go for NIMHANS again) lying unused for 3 whole days. We can
> > throw in some tables, chairs, mattresses and it could make a great
> > dev sprint spot. This will make the conference more engaging for
> > the participants. It'd have been perfect if we could get an extra
> > day and experiment for a year. But _if_ that's not possible, can we
> > do it within the conf days?
>
> +1. This should be doable. We are not utilizing the entire top floor
> of NIMHANS while it is available to us.
>
> It would be nice to do some core Python Sprints to squash bugs - like
> a bug day for a few selected modules perhaps.
>
> Note this needs to be organized top-down. I don't think a sudden
> Sprint on PyCon India days would work. We need to organize a few mini
> sprints in preceding months to spark developer interest and then take
> it to finale in the conference.
>
> BangPypers meetups could be used for some of this.
>
>
We are planning for sprint as part of BangPypers in december. Dates and
venue is not finalized.


> Also take a look at http://pythonsprints.com/ and give your ideas.
>
> >
> > Thanks, Bibhas _______________________________________________
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