I will talk to my boss about attending for a week. I will be missing the conference this year so maybe this is a good compromise :/
On Wed, Aug 14, 2013 at 10:05 PM, Franco Pellegrini <frap...@gmail.com>wrote: > There's a big +1 from me... I don't think I can make it for the whole 4 > weeks, I'm thinking maybe getting there around the 9th or so... but I still > need to pull a few strings in terms of time and organization, and also see > if I can have some financial aid for the plane tickets... but this is > definitely an amazing idea, hope to see it happening ! > > > On Thu, Aug 8, 2013 at 4:41 AM, Maarten Kling <maar...@fourdigits.nl>wrote: > >> Hello FWT, >> >> We experienced a 'marathon' sprint ourselves and that works very well. In >> April we went to Ibiza with 10 people to work on a project. >> Having people all together in a closed environment worked out pretty >> well, and the results where a finished project as planned. We had 4 sprints >> for 1 week (1month total), all had there own goals. >> >> If people are up for this we can facilitate this Sprint Marathon at our >> office, including sleeping spots for free. We have a kitchen (and bar :)) >> available to provide cooking and lunch. >> All other necessary facilities are available (washing machine, shower, >> beer, garden). >> >> Our initial plan was to do a sprint from 11th until 15th November. We can >> extend this for the marathon to start 28th October and end 22th November. >> This way the Americans can be home for Thanksgiving. We can have 4 sprints >> for a week, having people sign-up for single week sprint or the complete >> run. >> >> We are definitely planning all goals upfront. Plone5 will be the topic. >> Depending on the work done at the ploneconf sprint, we will create an >> manage backlog for the remaining topics. >> >> Let me know how you think. >> >> Regards, >> Team 4D >> >> -- >> Maarten Kling >> http://fourdigits.nl/mensen/**maarten-kling<http://fourdigits.nl/mensen/maarten-kling> >> >> Four Digits BV >> http://www.fourdigits.nl >> Jansbinnensingel 26, 6811 AL, Arnhem >> tel: +31 (0)26 4422700 fax: +31 (0)84 2206117 >> KVK 091621370000 BTW 8161.22.234.B01 >> >> >> On 8/7/13 6:09 PM, Rok Garbas wrote: >> >>> Quoting Timo Stollenwerk (2013-08-07 09:10:18) >>> >>>> Hi FWT, >>>> >>>> while you're at it, would you mind considering to recommend the sprint >>>> in >>>> Cologne in February next year as strategic sprint to the board as well? >>>> (I'm >>>> still on holidays, so I haven't had the time to push this further yet) >>>> >>>> I'd be more than happy to discuss possible sprint goals with the FWT. My >>>> initial idea was to focus on p.a.contenttypes/p.a.event but I'd guess >>>> that we >>>> will have solved most problems until February. Therefore code cleanup >>>> (formlib->z3cform; skins removal, package consolidation, etc.) could be >>>> one of >>>> the main topics. Though, anything that brings us closer to Plone 5 and >>>> that >>>> makes sense at that point is fine with me. >>>> >>>> would it make it feasible to do "marathon" instead of a sprint just to >>> push >>> plone 5 out sooner. usually what happens on sprint is that we get things >>> 90% >>> done, but then it takes months to get that last 10% done. with >>> "marathon" it >>> would mean to bring developers together for a month with a goal to >>> release >>> plone 5. probably not all developers could attend it for whole month but >>> there >>> should be core team of "marathoners" that will be there from day one. >>> >>> i know that this idea sounds crazy, eg: how can we get one month off >>> from our >>> "day" jobs? but the result would be plone 5 being ready at least half a >>> year >>> earlier, which sounds to be worth at least giving a though if not trying >>> to >>> organize it. >>> >>> and why i'm saying this in this thread. there are many sprints in germany >>> around that time (at least it was like that in previous years) which, if >>> we >>> combine them, would mean first plone "marathon". >>> >>> Maybe we can take Eric's Plone 5 suggestions and create a more detailed >>>> roadmap >>>> (tasks, sprints, champions) how to realize our Plone 5 goals. Once we >>>> have such >>>> a roadmap we can plan the (stategic) sprint topics accordingly. >>>> >>> i'll prepare details list of things that need to be done to get >>> p.a.widgets/toolbar ready for production use. >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Rok Garbas - http://www.garbas.si >>> ______________________________**_________________ >>> Framework-Team mailing list >>> framework-t...@lists.plone.org >>> https://lists.plone.org/**mailman/listinfo/plone-**framework-team<https://lists.plone.org/mailman/listinfo/plone-framework-team> >>> >> >> ______________________________**_________________ >> Framework-Team mailing list >> framework-t...@lists.plone.org >> https://lists.plone.org/**mailman/listinfo/plone-**framework-team<https://lists.plone.org/mailman/listinfo/plone-framework-team> >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Framework-Team mailing list > framework-t...@lists.plone.org > https://lists.plone.org/mailman/listinfo/plone-framework-team > > -- Nathan Van Gheem Solutions Architect Wildcard Corp
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