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

Tue May 9 14:03:21 EDT 2017

I concur...
By Tuesday morning, most folks should be pretty well straightened out, so
Table Duty seems less and less necessary.

Chalmer

On Tue, May 9, 2017 at 7:43 AM Asheesh Laroia via Pycon-sprints <
pycon-sprints at python.org> wrote:

> 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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