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The talk will focus on <= 1 day length events that any Rubyists can organize in their locality to nurture and grow a vibrant ruby community. Specifically, the talk will explore in detail two such events - Code Retreat & Rails Bugmash, and will be based on my experience in organizing Code Retreats in Boulder (Feb 2011) & Fort Collins (June 2011), and Rails Bugmashes in Boulder and Bangalore (both in May 2011).
Presenter: @_prakas, from Boulder Ruby Group
Ideas
- Code Retreats
- Bugmashes
- Me: giving back to the community
- OpenGov
- Nonprofit
- Idea: App for organizing giving back to the community?
Code Retreat
- Goal: learning from others
- Day-long
- Single problem (e.g. Conway's Game of Life)
- 45 minute iterations
- Pair programming
- Delete code after each iteration
- Qs
- What did they learn?
- Surprised the most?
- What do differently from now on?
- Qs
- Stand up: 15 min retrospective and break
- Switch partners, start again
- Learn!
- Anyone can participate and learn, regardless of skill level. (Spread out skill level!)
- Don't analyze the problem too much; you're learning different approaches to coding
- How many people needed?
- At least 2
Bug Mash
- E.g., Rails bugmash: contribute bugfixes to Rails
- See Rails Guides: Contributing to Ruby on Rails http://guides.rubyonrails.org/contributing_to_ruby_on_rails.html
- Do pull requests
- Rebase so you have fewer commits, potentially
How?
- Bugmash Location
- Someplace people can be for 5-6 hours
- Local company
- Coworking space
- Coffee shop
- Code Retreat Location
- More work
- Sponsors for (catered) lunch, coffee, breakfast, other expenses
- Facilitators -- someone else who knows the ropes
- Coworking spaces are good options as sponsors
- Raising Sponsorships
- Ask and you shall receive!
- Coworking spaces
- Local Ruby firms
- Tech. book publishers
- Tech. training companies
- Recruiting firms
Why?
- Ruby must win! See Dr. Nic's talk "What is your job at your Ruby club?"
- Friends, experience
Tools
- Plancast
TODOs
coreyhaines is planning a Global Day of Code Retreat on 2011/12/3