On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 11:00 AM, Jeremy Dunck <jdu...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Djangonauts, > To help speed along development on Django, I'd like us to start > holding regularly-scheduled sprints. I've previously contacted core > committers to see who would be willing to supply the commit bits for > the sprint workflow. I'm now looking for members of the dev list to > help organize locally. If you would be willing to help organize your > local Django developers, the DSF can pay for lunches or similar costs. > It doesn't take much effort-- you just need a place to work that > offers a good network connection and a little coordination to get > people together. If you're an experienced contributor, great, but > there will be people on #django-dev and #django-sprint to help out, > too. We can certainly get a committer available online. In some > cases, we can get a committer on-site to help things along as well. > > To start, let's try running a sprint once every two months. I don't > think the specific days matter too much, but for a start, let's say > the second Friday through Sunday of every second month, starting in > December. That would make the first scheduled sprint December 11 - > 13. Since we have developers world-wide, I think it would make sense > to have the sprint roll across the time zones, starting at Fri 11 Dec > at 18:00 UTC [1] and running continuously until Mon 14 Dec at 00:00 > UTC [2]. Within that range of time, local groups can gather with some > assurance that a committer will be available at least virtually. > > It'd be lovely to get more than one location per sprint, and I'd > like to ensure that people all over at least have a reasonable chance > to attend a gathering. The exact days and start times will be up to > local organizers-- I'm just trying to make some conventions so we > don't have to fiddle with configuration so much. > > If you're willing to organize a sprint gathering during this time > span, please let me know and I'll help to ensure committers are > available and to promote the sprint gathering. (There's actually > pretty good guidance on the Sprints wiki page [3].) > > Even if you can't host on those dates, but would like to host in the > future, please let me know so I can have a list of candidates to work > from in the future. > > [1] > http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/meetingdetails.html?year=2009&month=12&day=11&hour=18&min=0&sec=0&p1=64&p2=37&p3=196 > [2] > http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/meetingdetails.html?year=2009&month=12&day=14&hour=0&min=0&sec=0&p1=64&p2=37&p3=196 > [3] > http://code.djangoproject.com/wiki/Sprints > > > >
>From December 19th through January 24th I will be willing to do anything necessary to organize a sprint in Chicago, hopefully it won't be too hard to drag our local core devs there :). Let me know what the sprint date would be over that time period and I can start working things out. Alex -- "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." -- Voltaire "The people's good is the highest law." -- Cicero "Code can always be simpler than you think, but never as simple as you want" -- Me --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django developers" group. To post to this group, send email to django-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-developers?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
