Effective code sprinting
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Code sprints are events where developers quickly complete coding tasks in a collaborative environment. A panel of skilled developers will share their experiences for organizing effective code sprints so you can better participate and organize your own. The panel members have organized and participated in over a hundred sprints (ranging from Django to JRuby) and used sprints as the primary way to develop community-oriented projects (e.g., Calagator). While most of the discussion will be about volunteer-run open source code sprints, many of the ideas will be readily applicable to improving development at your workplace. The panel will offer practical, actionable advice that you can use and answer your questions.
Description
- How to get the most out of code sprints as a participant and organizer?
- How do you organize a sprint?
- How do you run a sprint?
- How do you maintain momentum after a sprint?
- Challenges to effective code sprints
- Questions and answers
Tags
code sprint
Speakers
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Reid Beels
Open Source Bridge- Website: http://reidbeels.com/
- Twitter: reidab
- Identi.ca: reid
- Favorites: View Reid's favorites
Biography
Reid Beels lives in the lovely town of Portland, Oregon where he is thrilled to be a part of a rapidly exploding technology community. He likes to design things, plan events, take pictures, bake, and ride his bike.
In the Spring of 2008, Reid finished studying Communication Design at the Pacific Northwest College of Art and now works as a freelance design, web development and interactivity consultant.
Current side projects include helping to organize Open Source Bridge, a new kind of developers conference, and hacking on Calagator, a wiki-like calendar aggregation platform.
Sessions
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- Title: Effective code sprinting
- Track: Culture
- Room: Burnside
- Time: 11:20am – 12:05pm
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Excerpt:
Code sprints are events where developers quickly complete coding tasks in a collaborative environment. A panel of skilled developers will share their experiences for organizing effective code sprints so you can better participate and organize your own. The panel members have organized and participated in over a hundred sprints (ranging from Django to JRuby) and used sprints as the primary way to develop community-oriented projects (e.g., Calagator). While most of the discussion will be about volunteer-run open source code sprints, many of the ideas will be readily applicable to improving development at your workplace. The panel will offer practical, actionable advice that you can use and answer your questions.
- Speakers: Igal Koshevoy, Reid Beels, Audrey Eschright
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- Title: Creating conference sites with OpenConferenceWare
- Track: BoF
- Room: Burnside
- Time: 8:30 – 10:00pm
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Excerpt:
OpenConferenceWare is the application running this site. The software is themeable, customizable and open sourced: anyone can use it to run their own conference site. OpenConferenceWare’s developers would like to talk with users about making the software better, organizers about using it for other events, and with those interested in joining the development team.
- Speakers: Igal Koshevoy, Reid Beels
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- Website: http://lifeofaudrey.com/
- Blog: http://dyepot-teapot.com/
- Twitter: spinnerin
- Favorites: View Audrey's favorites
Biography
Programmer at Elevated Code working with Ruby, Rails, and occasionally iPhone development. Writer of essays, recipes, horror comics, and knitting patterns. Photographer working with digital and film cameras, including Polaroid, Holga, and pinholes. Community organizer of unconferences like WhereCampPDX. Core team member of the infamous Calagator. Agitator for a variety of grassroots local tech.
Sessions
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- Title: Effective code sprinting
- Track: Culture
- Room: Burnside
- Time: 11:20am – 12:05pm
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Excerpt:
Code sprints are events where developers quickly complete coding tasks in a collaborative environment. A panel of skilled developers will share their experiences for organizing effective code sprints so you can better participate and organize your own. The panel members have organized and participated in over a hundred sprints (ranging from Django to JRuby) and used sprints as the primary way to develop community-oriented projects (e.g., Calagator). While most of the discussion will be about volunteer-run open source code sprints, many of the ideas will be readily applicable to improving development at your workplace. The panel will offer practical, actionable advice that you can use and answer your questions.
- Speakers: Igal Koshevoy, Reid Beels, Audrey Eschright
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- Title: Wednesday Welcome and Keynotes
- Track: Culture
- Room: Fremont
- Time: 9:00 – 9:45am
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Excerpt:
Featuring Amber Case, Cyborg Anthropologist, and Kurt von Finck of Monty Program AB.
- Speakers: Audrey Eschright, Selena Deckelmann, Amber Case, Kurt von Finck
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- Title: Thursday Keynotes
- Track: Culture
- Room: Fremont
- Time: 9:00 – 9:45am
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Excerpt:
Featuring Mayor Sam Adams and Ward Cunningham
- Speakers: Audrey Eschright, Selena Deckelmann, Ward Cunningham
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- Title: Friday Unconference Kickoff & Scheduling
- Track: Culture
- Room: Fremont
- Time: 9:00 – 9:45am
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Excerpt:
Welcome to the unconference day.
- Speakers: Audrey Eschright, Selena Deckelmann, Chris Messina
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Igal Koshevoy
Open Source Bridge Foundation- Website: http://pragmaticraft.com/
- Blog: http://twitter.com/igalko
- Twitter: igalko
- Identi.ca: igalko
- Favorites: View Igal's favorites
Biography
Business-Technology Consultant, creating sophisticated applications using Ruby, Python, Java and UNIX.
Open source contributor and community organizer:
- Open Source Bridge conference — Senior Software Engineer and Systems Manager
- Calagator tech events calendar — Co-Founder, Senior Software Engineer and Systems Manager
- pdxruby, Portland Ruby Brigade — User Group Leader
- pdxfunc, Portland Functional Programming Study Group — User Group Leader
- WhereCampPDX — Co-organizer of geospatial conference
- Ignite Portland, Corvallis and Bend — Senior Software Engineer and Systems Manager
- Legion of Tech — Advisory Board Member
- OpenConferenceWare — Author of an open source web-based conference software suite, which is running this site
- OpenProposals — Author of an open source web-based proposal collection system for Ignite-like events, the basis for OpenConferenceWare
- AutomateIt — Author of an open source server automation tool, which is running this site’s server
Sessions
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- Title: Configuration Management Panel
- Track: Cooking
- Room: Fremont
- Time: 1:45 – 3:30pm
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Excerpt:
Configuration management tools are finally coming into their own. Powerful, automated infrastructure management is now available in a wide variety of open source tools. Tools written in different languages, using varying operational methodologies and embracing differing philosophies. Come meet some of the creators and maintainers of these cutting edge tools like cfengine, Puppet, AutomateIT, Chef, and bcfg2 and quiz them in the why and hows of their tools and the philosophies behind them.
- Speakers: James Turnbull, Igal Koshevoy, Luke Kanies, Narayan Desai, Adam Jacob, Brendan Strejcek
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- Title: Effective code sprinting
- Track: Culture
- Room: Burnside
- Time: 11:20am – 12:05pm
-
Excerpt:
Code sprints are events where developers quickly complete coding tasks in a collaborative environment. A panel of skilled developers will share their experiences for organizing effective code sprints so you can better participate and organize your own. The panel members have organized and participated in over a hundred sprints (ranging from Django to JRuby) and used sprints as the primary way to develop community-oriented projects (e.g., Calagator). While most of the discussion will be about volunteer-run open source code sprints, many of the ideas will be readily applicable to improving development at your workplace. The panel will offer practical, actionable advice that you can use and answer your questions.
- Speakers: Igal Koshevoy, Reid Beels, Audrey Eschright
-
- Title: Creating conference sites with OpenConferenceWare
- Track: BoF
- Room: Burnside
- Time: 8:30 – 10:00pm
-
Excerpt:
OpenConferenceWare is the application running this site. The software is themeable, customizable and open sourced: anyone can use it to run their own conference site. OpenConferenceWare’s developers would like to talk with users about making the software better, organizers about using it for other events, and with those interested in joining the development team.
- Speakers: Igal Koshevoy, Reid Beels