August and September Meetings - Topic Ideas

[Peter J. Farrell]

AUGUST

I was thinking that August would be fun to do a Mob Programming night.  This is called "Whole Team Programming" which is basically pair programming on steroids.

Basically, there are three roles:

1. Driver -- this person types and performs the actions as directed by the "Navigator(s)". The "Driver" doesn't think or act, just plays dumb most of the time.
2. Navigator -- this person directs the "Driver" on what to do.
3. Peanut Gallery -- these people help the "Navigator" on solving the problem at hand.

I was thinking we'd take 5m rotations through the Driver and Navigator positions (possibly have two co-Navigators for more fun). In 90m, we should be able to get through 18 rotations (or 32 slots of Driver and Navigator so everybody should be able to participate).  A month in advance, we'll put up a "Driver" and "Navigator" sign-up sheet so we can blast through evening without having to pick people.

See a 3m+ time lapse video with captions on Mob Programming her:

http://mobprogramming.org/mob-programming-time-lapse-video-a-day-of-mob-programming/

Anybody have a suggestion on a small python problem that we could work on for an August Mob Programming event?  I was thinking of a binary file duplicate checker (recursively looks through photos for duplicate images binary, not just file name).

SEPTEMBER

For September, I wanted to throw out the topic idea of "My Favorite Python Package". Short presentations on a Python package you couldn't live without.  Thoughts?

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[Nick Bauman]

I would love to try this.

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[Peter J. Farrell]

Nick Bauman said the following on 05/19/2013 12:29 PM:

> I would love to try this.

Any suggestions on what we could build? I'm thinking something that
runs from command line and isn't web related (i.e. Django). I have a
dummy SMTP server that is really basic and could be improved with more
features:

https://github.com/maestrofjp/Dummy-SMTP

[David Fawcett]

Peter, you are rockin this leader role!

[Peter Farrell]

On May 19, 2013 9:36 PM, "David Fawcett" <david....@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Peter, you are rockin this leader role!
>

Thank you! That literally put a smile on my face tonight.