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Tim Bielawa

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Oct 20, 2010, 4:49:10 PM10/20/10

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Hey folks,

The ACM list has been busy today. I wanted to share the announcement
posted there about our upcoming event in Spring.

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Tim Bielawa <timbi...@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 4:47 PM
Subject: Re: Next Meeting
To: wvu...@googlegroups.com

On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 4:31 PM, Joshua Williams
<blinding...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Baazar would be a great topic, Agile Developement Practices another, and
> possibly a presentation from a few WVU alums on career advancement and
> choices. Some one who stayed in school for their Masters or PHd. Some one
> who went in the working world. Perhaps a few of each. At this point I am
> just spit balling about things I would have liked to have seen when I was
> active and an undergrad.
>
> Joshua M. Williams
>

Since Josh mentioned Agile Development Practices, I think now would be
a good time to reveal our big speaker for Spring.

Andrew has done all the hard work and secured Corey Haines
(http://www.coreyhaines.com/) for Spring 2011.

But wait, that's not all.

Keeping with our fashion of being awesome, ACM/FSG has gotten him to
do a two parter event. Day one: talk on software craftsmanship. Day
two (!!): hands-on code retreat. (What's a code retreat:
http://www.coderetreat.com/how-it-works.html )

How serious is this?

- The department has pledged their support for funding.
- Corey Haines has the event posted on his Google Calendar
(http://bit.ly/bT4Tag)

Cool fact: This is tentatively scheduled exactly 1 year from when we hosted RMS.