Great.
It sounds like we have enough interest to get this set up. Lets start
by getting a list of people who are willing to take part and a list of
potential topics. Please add your name to the list if you'd like to
take part and add any topics to the lists below. I've started by adding
topics mentioned in the thread + a few of my own.
-- Speakers --
* Martyn
* Matt Wagner
* Tomas Sedovic
* Tomas Hrcka
-- Topics --
* aeolus new starter introduction
* SELinux
* ARel (Active Relation)
* Postgres querying
* Better Rails testing
* The inner workings of the Ruby Interpreter
* Running rails inside JBossAS
* Securing Rails applications
* Agile approach to software development
* Git underlying workings
On 11/01/2011 10:18 AM, Justin Clift wrote:
On 01/11/2011, at 12:52 AM, Matt Wagner wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 10:52:34AM +0000, Martyn Taylor wrote:
>> 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.
> Yes! I can't honestly say I have a brilliant topic I'm itching to
> present, but this is a really awesome idea, and I'd definitely
> participate.
>
> A lot of it's not even necessarily detailed or obscure stuff. I'd like
> to learn a bit more about non-basic ARel usage, mastering the "psql" CLI
> to run queries in Postgres, and how to do more with SELinux than
> "setenforce 0". It's not that these are obscure things that I
can't
> figure out; I just haven't taken the time to do so. If I'm going to take
> the time to learn one, I might as well present it.
Good attitude. :)
We should record these too (RecordMyDesktop and/or web cam?). It turns out that the
Elluminate recordings that morazi does for our sprint reviews, aren't allowed to be
made public. (according to the license agreement)
Regards and best wishes,
Justin Clift
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Aeolus Community Manager
http://www.aeolusproject.org