[Pycon-sprints] Notes from today's meeting and alias for mentors

Tue May 9 13:42:25 EDT 2017

Hi all! What if we don't have anyone at the table past noon Tuesday?

Rationale:

- It looks like I might have to abandon table duty on Tuesday noon, due to
some work commitments.

- Also presumably mostly people will have their questions answered by then.

On Tue, Apr 18, 2017 at 11:12 AM, Ewa Jodlowska <ewa at python.org> wrote:

> Only if it is Reese candies ;)
>
> Best regards,
>
> Ewa
> Director of Operations
> Python Software Foundation
> Cell: 415-319-5237 <(415)%20319-5237>
>
> On Tue, Apr 18, 2017 at 12:14 PM, Chalmer Lowe <chalmer.lowe at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> wow.
>> just wow.
>> ewa, can you be in all my meetings?
>> i can send you schedule.
>> i bring candy.
>> = )
>>
>> On Tue, Apr 18, 2017 at 6:50 AM Ewa Jodlowska <ewa at python.org> wrote:
>>
>>> 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 at python.org. They can sign up
>>> here: https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/sprint-mentors
>>>
>>> ------------------------------------------------------------
>>> ------------------------
>>> 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 <(415)%20319-5237>
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>> --
>> Chalmer Lowe, MS
>>
>> *PyHawaii* >> https://www.meetup.com/PyHawaii-Python-Users-Group/
>> *Dark Art of Coding* >> https://darkartofcoding.com
>> *Booz Allen Hamilton* >> http://www.boozallen.com
>> *Python Education Summit* >> https://us.pycon.org/2017/s
>> peaking/education-summit/
>>
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