September Sprint organization

[Addison Berry-2]

Hey there folks,

Drupalcon Paris and code freeze is a little over 5 weeks away now.  
Part of Drupalcon this year is not just one, but two sprint days, Sept  
1st and 5th. Last 'con we had a lot of people show up for the doc  
sprint and we self-organized fairly well. This year I'd like to have  
things more planned out ahead of time since we have a lot of different  
things going on in our docs world these days. I know that everyone  
can't make it to Paris and so I am particularly keen to figure out a  
good way to coordinate a virtual sprint with the live sprint in Paris.

I want to start talking about it now and see what we come up with. I  
think having some "sub-groups" around particular things would be good.  
sort of like how we had the coder and style guide tables in DC. Some  
stuff that comes immediately to mind as possibilities are:
- D7 docs
- Newbies
- Code projects
- Roadmap groups (i.e. maybe IA, reward system, peer/metoring groups)

We could start posting up a rough game plan of things that we want to  
accomplish by the end of the con week for various areas. I also think  
the "cat-herder" plan at DC worked pretty well (where folks  
volunteered to cat-herd, got a button to identify them, and helped  
others get oriented, etc.), so thoughts on that are appreciated. Did  
it work for you guys? Can we improve it? Any ideas on how to keep  
communication/workflow better between virtual and live sprinters are  
really neeeded, since I don't feel like I've had much success on that  
front.

- Addi


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[Ryan Cross-3]

Hey Addi,

I'll be at DrupalCon and probably split my time between coding and doc sprints.

One suggestion for coordinating the virtual and live sprints, I think it might make sense to have some at the live event monitoring the back channel (irc, twitter, etc) and then pulling in the various relevant groups for people to connect. Sounds like a "cat herder" for the virtual participants :) this person could also help to answer all the "what are we working on" "where should we go" type things that might distract the live participants and dissuade from monitoring the irc channel

-Ryan

On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 3:47 AM, Addison Berry <drupal@...> wrote:

Hey there folks,

Drupalcon Paris and code freeze is a little over 5 weeks away now. Part of Drupalcon this year is not just one, but two sprint days, Sept 1st and 5th. Last 'con we had a lot of people show up for the doc sprint and we self-organized fairly well. This year I'd like to have things more planned out ahead of time since we have a lot of different things going on in our docs world these days. I know that everyone can't make it to Paris and so I am particularly keen to figure out a good way to coordinate a virtual sprint with the live sprint in Paris.

I want to start talking about it now and see what we come up with. I think having some "sub-groups" around particular things would be good. sort of like how we had the coder and style guide tables in DC. Some stuff that comes immediately to mind as possibilities are:
- D7 docs
- Newbies
- Code projects
- Roadmap groups (i.e. maybe IA, reward system, peer/metoring groups)

We could start posting up a rough game plan of things that we want to accomplish by the end of the con week for various areas. I also think the "cat-herder" plan at DC worked pretty well (where folks volunteered to cat-herd, got a button to identify them, and helped others get oriented, etc.), so thoughts on that are appreciated. Did it work for you guys? Can we improve it? Any ideas on how to keep communication/workflow better between virtual and live sprinters are really neeeded, since I don't feel like I've had much success on that front.

- Addi


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[Margaux O'Malley]

I thought the cat herder concept worked well at the DC 'con. I will not be in Paris but am planning to join you by IRC. If you have remote IRC cat herders I'm happy to be one, though it seems to make more sense that the cat herders would all be there in Paris, even those leading the IRCers.
-Margaux


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Sent: Sun Jul 26 13:47:48 2009
Subject: [documentation] September Sprint organization

Hey there folks,

Drupalcon Paris and code freeze is a little over 5 weeks away now. 
Part of Drupalcon this year is not just one, but two sprint days, Sept 
1st and 5th. Last 'con we had a lot of people show up for the doc 
sprint and we self-organized fairly well. This year I'd like to have 
things more planned out ahead of time since we have a lot of different 
things going on in our docs world these days. I know that everyone 
can't make it to Paris and so I am particularly keen to figure out a 
good way to coordinate a virtual sprint with the live sprint in Paris.

I want to start talking about it now and see what we come up with. I 
think having some "sub-groups" around particular things would be good. 
sort of like how we had the coder and style guide tables in DC. Some 
stuff that comes immediately to mind as possibilities are:
- D7 docs
- Newbies
- Code projects
- Roadmap groups (i.e. maybe IA, reward system, peer/metoring groups)

We could start posting up a rough game plan of things that we want to 
accomplish by the end of the con week for various areas. I also think 
the "cat-herder" plan at DC worked pretty well (where folks 
volunteered to cat-herd, got a button to identify them, and helped 
others get oriented, etc.), so thoughts on that are appreciated. Did 
it work for you guys? Can we improve it? Any ideas on how to keep 
communication/workflow better between virtual and live sprinters are 
really neeeded, since I don't feel like I've had much success on that 
front.

- Addi


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