September Sprint organization

[Addison Berry]

Hey there folks,

Drupalcon Paris and code freeze is a little over 5 weeks away now.
Part of Drupalcon this year is not just one, but two sprint days, Sept
1st and 5th. Last 'con we had a lot of people show up for the doc
sprint and we self-organized fairly well. This year I'd like to have
things more planned out ahead of time since we have a lot of different
things going on in our docs world these days. I know that everyone
can't make it to Paris and so I am particularly keen to figure out a
good way to coordinate a virtual sprint with the live sprint in Paris.

I want to start talking about it now and see what we come up with. I
think having some "sub-groups" around particular things would be good.
sort of like how we had the coder and style guide tables in DC. Some
stuff that comes immediately to mind as possibilities are:
- D7 docs
- Newbies
- Code projects
- Roadmap groups (i.e. maybe IA, reward system, peer/metoring groups)

We could start posting up a rough game plan of things that we want to
accomplish by the end of the con week for various areas. I also think
the "cat-herder" plan at DC worked pretty well (where folks
volunteered to cat-herd, got a button to identify them, and helped
others get oriented, etc.), so thoughts on that are appreciated. Did
it work for you guys? Can we improve it? Any ideas on how to keep
communication/workflow better between virtual and live sprinters are
really neeeded, since I don't feel like I've had much success on that
front.

- Addi


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[Ryan Cross]

Hey Addi,

I'll be at DrupalCon and probably split my time between coding and doc
sprints.

One suggestion for coordinating the virtual and live sprints, I think it
might make sense to have some at the live event monitoring the back channel
(irc, twitter, etc) and then pulling in the various relevant groups for
people to connect. Sounds like a "cat herder" for the virtual participants
:) this person could also help to answer all the "what are we working on"
"where should we go" type things that might distract the live participants
and dissuade from monitoring the irc channel

-Ryan

Post by Addison Berry
Hey there folks,
Drupalcon Paris and code freeze is a little over 5 weeks away now. Part of
Drupalcon this year is not just one, but two sprint days, Sept 1st and 5th.
Last 'con we had a lot of people show up for the doc sprint and we
self-organized fairly well. This year I'd like to have things more planned
out ahead of time since we have a lot of different things going on in our
docs world these days. I know that everyone can't make it to Paris and so I
am particularly keen to figure out a good way to coordinate a virtual sprint
with the live sprint in Paris.
I want to start talking about it now and see what we come up with. I think
having some "sub-groups" around particular things would be good. sort of
like how we had the coder and style guide tables in DC. Some stuff that
- D7 docs
- Newbies
- Code projects
- Roadmap groups (i.e. maybe IA, reward system, peer/metoring groups)
We could start posting up a rough game plan of things that we want to
accomplish by the end of the con week for various areas. I also think the
"cat-herder" plan at DC worked pretty well (where folks volunteered to
cat-herd, got a button to identify them, and helped others get oriented,
etc.), so thoughts on that are appreciated. Did it work for you guys? Can we
improve it? Any ideas on how to keep communication/workflow better between
virtual and live sprinters are really neeeded, since I don't feel like I've
had much success on that front.
- Addi
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[Margaux O'Malley]

I thought the cat herder concept worked well at the DC 'con. I will not be in Paris but am planning to join you by IRC. If you have remote IRC cat herders I'm happy to be one, though it seems to make more sense that the cat herders would all be there in Paris, even those leading the IRCers.
-Margaux


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Subject: [documentation] September Sprint organization

Hey there folks,

Drupalcon Paris and code freeze is a little over 5 weeks away now.
Part of Drupalcon this year is not just one, but two sprint days, Sept
1st and 5th. Last 'con we had a lot of people show up for the doc
sprint and we self-organized fairly well. This year I'd like to have
things more planned out ahead of time since we have a lot of different
things going on in our docs world these days. I know that everyone
can't make it to Paris and so I am particularly keen to figure out a
good way to coordinate a virtual sprint with the live sprint in Paris.

I want to start talking about it now and see what we come up with. I
think having some "sub-groups" around particular things would be good.
sort of like how we had the coder and style guide tables in DC. Some
stuff that comes immediately to mind as possibilities are:
- D7 docs
- Newbies
- Code projects
- Roadmap groups (i.e. maybe IA, reward system, peer/metoring groups)

We could start posting up a rough game plan of things that we want to
accomplish by the end of the con week for various areas. I also think
the "cat-herder" plan at DC worked pretty well (where folks
volunteered to cat-herd, got a button to identify them, and helped
others get oriented, etc.), so thoughts on that are appreciated. Did
it work for you guys? Can we improve it? Any ideas on how to keep
communication/workflow better between virtual and live sprinters are
really neeeded, since I don't feel like I've had much success on that
front.

- Addi