Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] how did the paris code sprint go

Le dimanche 06 mars 2016 20:59:16, Jody Garnett a écrit : > Taking this out to a seperate email thread - several projects had a plan > going in, how did it go? > >- PostGIS Agenda > >- SFCGAL Agenda >

[OSGeo-Discuss] how did the paris code sprint go

Taking this out to a seperate email thread - several projects had a plan going in, how did it go? - PostGIS Agenda - SFCGAL Agenda - OTB Agenda

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Board] Funding code Sprints

Le 6 mars 2016 à 18:40, Jody Garnett a écrit : > It may be worth asking the recent Paris code sprint participants "how it > went" in a separate email thread. For information, i've began to gather feedbacks from participants here: https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Paris_Code_Sprint_2016_:_Feedback O

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Board] Funding code Sprints

On Sun, Mar 06, 2016 at 03:40:29PM +, Hogan, Patrick (ARC-PX) wrote: > The world needs a more peaceful approach to the future. Well said ! The idea of working 24h/day is what keeps me away from code sprints. But when there's a chance to have fun and eat togheter, taking a break from work, spo

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Board] Funding code Sprints

I like your tactic here Patrick, I have been to a few sprints where teams did not sufficiently prep and left with more questions/work than were answered. It is one thing if their point was to have meetings/planning, but a bit of a missed opportunity if organization is left to the first day of the e

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Board] Funding code Sprints

Helena, There are a lot of "essential part of open source projects." I think it's worth discussing what those parts are. As you noted, there are ways to improve things. I also believe it would be good to apply some metrics that help to evaluate progress. At least we should be describing (and an

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Board] Funding code Sprints

Patrick, as others have explained, the code or community sprints are indeed an essential part of open source projects - with developers from all over the globe, this is the opportunity to get together and get some of the important (and sometimes even critical) work done. For GRASS GIS project,

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Board] Funding code Sprints

Jody, I guess you could say wanting to improve our design for solutions is a kind of social advocacy. Certainly where we put our money is a kind of social advocacy. Since the idea came up for where OSGeo would put its money, I wanted to give it some thought and impregnate it with my ‘prejudice.’

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Board] Funding code Sprints

Oaky, I may be misunderstanding as measured by certain specific examples. I am very glad there are good opportunities for encouraging substantial results. I look forward to hearing about more of these and how well they are ‘carefully’ designed for substantial results. I will hope the point of t

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Board] Funding code Sprints

I expect Patrick is looking more for social advocacy. Sprints are often devoted to the boring software development - that if we are lucky can enable so much more ... OSGeo is a software foundation, so we will look into the depths of how software and their communities function and stay healthy. The

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Board] Funding code Sprints

Patrick, Again you are misunderstanding how sprints (at least in the GeoJava tribe) work - we plan for weeks (or months) before hand to make the most of the limited time we have with the developers all in the same room and time zone there is no brain storming at the event or quilting. We arrive wi

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Board] Funding code Sprints

Andrea, The world needs a more peaceful approach to the future. That’s not what we have in a world that is rapidly disassembling, obviously with individual exceptions. So yes, a portion of the real world necessarily operates with a high degree of chaos. And though it may appear the norm, it is n

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Board] Funding code Sprints

On Sun, Mar 6, 2016 at 3:18 PM, Hogan, Patrick (ARC-PX) < patrick.ho...@nasa.gov> wrote: > It appears to me that even these more-substantial-than-hackathons sprints > do not reflect the typical work environment for code development. I will > suggest that requires more of the 'deep thought' Leonard

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Board] Funding code Sprints

Ian, Yes, you are right. That sounds like a more constructive basis for engagement. It would be nice to see the history of 'sprint' success for reference. Even for sprints though, my thought is for a larger time-frame and more 'convenience-of-location,' so that the sprint is not limited to just

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Board] Funding code Sprints

Patrick, I think you are conflating Hackathons and code sprints - a hackathon is a random collection of cute assignments while Code Sprints are where a team (or teams) come together to achieve a goal that needs doing and is easier to solve when a group of developers are in the same room. For exampl

[OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo-Live 9.5 call for translators and testers

We are almost at the end of our OSGeo-Live 9.5 development cycle, and are calling for translators to help update docs, and testers to verify latest versions of software works. In particular, we need help to: 1. Run Quickstarts and verify they still works as described, complete. 2. Update review