Sounds awesome! Thanks Prakash for getting the word out and this email topic going!
I'm personally very interested in all of these, although the morning events simply aren't doable for me as I live outside of Boulder. If the QuickLeft hackfests and pair-with-a-Pivot events are at times I can attend I'll definitely be there. Do you know what time the Foraker Labs meetups will happen? If it's Thursday evening I'll try my best to be there, but Thursday day I'll have to pass on. That's a lot of events, so I'm certain to make it to at least a couple. :) Thanks again, and I'm looking forward to some promiscuous hackery! Dave Kapp On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 5:19 PM, Prakash N Murthy <prak...@yahoo.com> wrote: > HAPPY *CAPSLOCK DAY* <http://www.capslockday.com/> FOLKS. And now let me > switch back to regular case. > > Got some terrific feedback for the email I sent earlier querying about the > interest in regular paired programming sessions. There is a lot of interest > from many people to have such sessions, and the general perception is it is > good to have such sessions. Here is *Aaron "Tenderlove" Peterson's advice > - via Chad Fowler - during > Mountain.rb<http://twitter.com/#%21/chadfowler/status/26760442153> > . *So*"Promiscuous Pair Programming for all"* will be the mantra for this > effort going forward. > > Some quick notes relating this topic: > > - Some people are already pairing even outside of their regular work; > some people are interested in getting to work on specific items with > others. > - The Boulder based companies are providing many opportunities for the > local Rubyists to pair: > - *Dojo4 <http://twitter.com/dojo4>* has the weekly Code-n-coffee > event every Wednesday morning. > - *QuickLeft* <http://twitter.com/quickleft> plans to organize a > once a month hackfest during the last week of the month. There won't be > one > this month though as they just hosted a big hackfest during Mountain.rb. > - *Pivotal Boulder <http://twitter.com/pivotalboulder>* is planning > a Pair-with-a-Pivot-evening event where a limited number of people (8 + > 8) > would work on open source projects or any personal projects, pairing > with > the Pivots. I am co-ordinating with Pivotal to organize this sometime in > November - more info later as we thrash out the details. > - *Foraker Labs <http://twitter.com/forakerlabs>* is planning a > monthly hackfest - tentatively planned for the second thursday of every > month - to start in November or December. The november date (Thu Nov > 11th) > is not confirmed yet as it conflicts with the start of Ruby Conf in New > Orleans and many of their staff will be in New Orleans. > - There could probably be more that I am not aware of. > - At some point in the next 3-4 months, it would be awesome if we could > organize a*Corey Haines' Code Retreat style > event<http://www.coderetreat.com/> > * in Boulder over one weekend. I think its best we build up to it by > having regular small size pair programming events at one of the numerous > Coffee shops in Downtown Boulder or at the offices of one of the companies. > - I have added a *separate sheet to the Regular Pair Programming > sessions in Boulder spreadsheet* <http://bit.ly/bhU57R> with a weekly > calendar to allow for people to list their available time for pairing with > others. Do add your availability to the spreadsheet, or inform the person > whose paired programming event you will be joining. > - As I mentioned in the spreadsheet, I am planning to be at The Cup > Boulder next week - Monday to Thursday - from 5pm to 8pm; will be useful > for > anyone who wants to work on Ruby Koans or try out TDD with Project Euler > problems. > - The above spreadsheet seems to be a non-scalable solution for the > kind of promiscuous-pair-programming-for-all scenario I am thinking about - > so am considering building a Heroku-hosted Rails app to manage the regular > paired programming functionality. Aiming to have it up in the next couple > of > weeks. > > > Thanks for reading this rather long email. Do let me know if you have any > feedback on this idea. > > Have an awesome weekend. > > Cheers, > Prakash N Murthy > (347) 228 3993 > http://twitter.com/_prakash > > > > _______________________________________________ > Bdrg-members mailing list > Bdrg-members@rubyforge.org > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/bdrg-members >
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