The hangout took place during my regular working hours, so for those like me that must work according to a schedule it wasn't easy to do much more than "radio listening" and some chat.
Anyhow, I'm happy with the outcome. I think more hangouts should be done, one per month is few. Maybe two would be a good number, each scheduled to make it possible for those living past Greenwich, and those living a few hours behind it like us. It will require some time to get speed and used to the tools, but I think it will be worth the effort. Regards! Esteban A. Maringolo 2013/10/2 Esteban Lorenzano <esteba...@gmail.com>: > Hi, > > So well... the first Pharo Hangout Session has passed and in my opinion it > was not terribly bad :) > There were present people who usually does not show up in the sprints for > obvious reasons (they live far from Lille, like in Argentina). > And we more or less worked in fixing bugs and talked about Pharo development, > etc. > > No one there worked like that before and we need to acquire more experience > to do the kind of things that makes our team work better: we need to learn > how to explain our stuff, how to share our screen and do things, etc. > > But I think as a first experience it was very positive. > At least, we could hang (out ;)) and share working context with people that > we usually don't. > And I think all presents are a bit more aware of Pharo process now (not a lot > more aware, but a bit :) > > So... we will repeat this experience once a month, because I think they are > very positive and we will improve them with practice. > But I also would like to add other ideas that came to my mind while sprinting. > > For example, I think we succeed in create the feeling of "all of us are > working together" that a sprint has, but we failed in pair program. So I > would like to try remote-pair program too. > How can we manage it? well, instead an open sprint, we declare "I want to > work on this issue", and we invite people to join... and we join two or three > with same interest into a shared screen and with real participation. > > What do you think? > > cheers, > Esteban
