[LRUG] <insert hilarious September meeting pun here>

[James Adam]

Hi everyone.

I've just checked the spreadsheet, and we have 17 people signed up to
do the dojo. I'm sure there must be more than 17 people planning to
attend LRUG in September, so if you are at all interested in
participating, *please* put your name on the sheet against one of the
groups.

Don't worry about declaring your level of Ruby aptitude, if that's
causing you to delay - the main thing is to get your name there so the
dojo can be run as smoothly and effectively as possible.

Here's the link again:
ttp://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0Ai86AO7glNC9dFg4cEJkSUhOaEpCT0VHNnlWYnFld0E&hl=en_GB

See you all on the 9th!

- James

p.s. Go Zombies.

2009/8/18 Murray Steele <murray.steele at gmail.com>:
> Hi all,
> The September meeting will be on Wednesday 9th September and we'll be
> running the September meeting as a Coding Dojo.  You can find out more
> details on the lrug website:
> http://lrug.org/meetings/2009/08/18/september-2009-meeting/ (including links
> to what the hell a Coding Dojo actually is).
> Matt Wynne and Ivan Sanchez have been really helpful to me in working out
> how we might run this sort of evening, and they'll be on hand (on this list
> and at the meeting) to answer any questions.
> There's a little pre-work for this meeting, so I hope you're all paying
> attention:
> 1. We need to split up into 2 or 3 groups in order to run the evening
> successfully so I've created a google spreadsheet with 3 groups in it.  If
> you are planning on coming can you put your name down and self arrange into
> groups.  The spreadsheet is
> here: http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0Ai86AO7glNC9dFg4cEJkSUhOaEpCT0VHNnlWYnFld0E&hl=en_GB
> (it's publicly editable so please be nice).
> 2. Ideally the groups will have an even spread of ability so that everyone
> gets something out of the evening.  There's a column in the spreadsheet for
> indicating your "ability" level on a scale of 1-10 and there's a key in the
> spreadsheet so we should all be thinking along the same lines.  Check what
> everyone else in the groups has declared themselves before adding yourself
> to that group, for example, if you think you are a total newbie and Group 1
> already has a bunch of people with roughly that ability, but group 2
> doesn't, put your name under group 2.
> NOTE: if you feel uncomfortable about declaring what you think your ability
> with ruby is, that's fine.  You don't have to put anything down for ability,
> but you should filter yourself into a group with a good mix of abilities.
> 3. We'd also like it if a couple of folk volunteered to be first up in each
> group to kick things off.  This doesn't mean that you think you are the most
> awesome ruby programmer, just that you think you'd be happy to kick start
> the process maybe because you've Dojo'd before or because you're used to
> pairing and explaining how you work.  There's a column in the spreadsheet
> for indicating that you'd be happy to go first.
> 4. The problem to work on: Matt Wynne suggested, from experience, either
> Minesweeper or Mastermind as good problems to work on.  I don't want to
> bike-shed this, but does anyone have any preferences or alternatives?  I'm
> in favour of Minesweeper as Matt already has a bunch of cucumber acceptance
> tests which can be useful to help bootstrap the design process.
> Cheers,
> Muz
> ps - I'm off on holiday at the end of the week, so might be sans-internet.
>  If there are any questions about this particular meeting, Matt or Ivan
> should be able to help.
>
>
>
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