Hi Gents,
It's pretty hard work keeping up to speed with all the latest tech stuff
we use in aeolus such as rails and various other libraries, Agile
processes and all that jazz. I and I guess a lot of you guys don't
really get much time to branch out and research something new and
interesting that you feel would help your work, the team or just
something you'd like to look into.
To help a little, I'm hoping to set up a monthly meet, where anyone who
wants to get involved can go away and research a new technical topic by
either reading a technical book or just research a topic online; then
present their findings to the rest of the group. It's a win win
situation, on an individual basis you get say 5 for the price of 1 (i.e.
you read 1 book but get the knowledge of 5) and it's a win for the Team
as a whole as it brings in a whole new set of skills and knowledge into
the group.
I'm thinking we could pull together a list of topics/skills that we feel
we are lacking in the project. Then once a month we get a list of
people who want to take part and their chosen topic (doesn't have to be
an aeolus one, but preferably one that others might be interested in).
Then at the end of the month we schedule say 30mins to an hour for each
person to present their findings. We could just distribute a set of
slides and do a conf call or use elluminate oir what ever people are
comfortable with.
Let me know if you are interested so I can get an idea of numbers to see
if its worth while organising.
Thanks
Martyn