XSF Discussion - 2011-05-25


  1. Florian

    Meeting in 1hr5mins :)

  2. stpeter

    yes

  3. bear

    meeting notes: http://typewith.me/Vl9ItsS33A

  4. stpeter

    thanks bear

  5. stpeter is deep in a review of https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-xcon-common-data-model/ but will break away as needed

  6. bear

    I don't think we have anything to discuss TBH

  7. Kev

    GSoC?

  8. bear

    an update, sure - but since i've all but tossed you under the bus with my dayjob distraction... you would ahve to do that

  9. Kev

    Are we intending providing students with books again this year?

  10. bear

    which should be clearing up by friday

  11. bear

    i'll add that to the agenda

  12. stpeter

    it seems that we might be able to declare consensus on the trademark applications -- three in favor, none against by my reading of the last meeting

  13. bear adds that to meeting

  14. bear

    err agenda

  15. bear

    i'm +1 for books to GSoC students

  16. bear

    I don't think any are in China this year, so shipping should be a lot easier

  17. stpeter

    did someone get reimbursed for shipping the last time?

  18. Kev

    Bear did the ordering last year.

  19. stpeter

    on the phone, brb

  20. Kev

    I'm assuming/hoping he claimed it back.

  21. bear

    nope - wrote it of as a "donation"

  22. bear

    going to give folks a couple of minutes before starting

  23. will.sheward

    give us time to read the extensive agenda :-)

  24. stpeter

    back

  25. Florian

    back

  26. bear

    http://typewith.me/Vl9ItsS33A

  27. bear

    shall we start?

  28. stpeter

    sure thing

  29. Florian

    sure

  30. stpeter finds http://xmpp.org:5290/muc_log/muc.xmpp.org/xsf/110511/#17:04:21 about the trademark applications

  31. bear

    yea, I updated the bugs to show the +1's

  32. will.sheward

    my feedback : +1

  33. bear

    sounds like we can declare consensus for those two applications

  34. stpeter

    will.sheward: ok

  35. stpeter

    yep

  36. stpeter

    I'll process them as "usual" (haven't processed any in a while)

  37. bear

    Kev was going to ask if it's ok to send books to the GSoC Students like we did last year

  38. bear

    we send 3 books (IIRC) to each student - would be the same list this year

  39. stpeter wonders what Tobias has done with all of his extra books

  40. will.sheward

    which books?

  41. Tobias

    :D

  42. bear

    I"m digging up that list now

  43. Tobias

    i'm also +1 on books :D

  44. jack

    board meeting time?

  45. stpeter

    I think it's a good thing to do (sending the books)

  46. stpeter

    jack: yep

  47. Florian

    I agree

  48. Kev

    The list was TDG, PP and GTD.

  49. Florian

    lol

  50. Tobias

    not again

  51. Tobias

    :)

  52. will.sheward

    GTD :-)

  53. Kev

    Tobias: Maybe you wouldn't need another set.

  54. bear

    which one is PP

  55. jack

    what's PP?

  56. will.sheward

    hence the question, if theyve already got the titles, shouldn't we send something else?

  57. Tobias

    Kev: it it's that exact set....

  58. bear

    tobias is, I think, the only one who would be getting doubles

  59. jack

    I really like hte Pomodoro book from pragprog as an altnerative to GTD

  60. Kev

    PP = Pragmatic Programmer.

  61. will.sheward

    i cant believe there isn't a single person in the woorld who hasn't already got a (signed) copy of TDG

  62. jack

    as an alternative to PP there is also the passionate programmer or whatever

  63. jack

    or Code Complete

  64. jack

    or Coders at Work

  65. Tobias

    will.sheward: +1 on different books :)

  66. jack

    Coders at Work is a fun one for sure

  67. Kev

    I haven't read any of the ones Jack's named. I picked the above set because they're favourites of mine. If other books have equivalent content and a champion I'm happy.

  68. bear

    can everyone send to the mailing list their short list of books and i'll collate and pick the top 3?

  69. Kev

    No.

  70. Kev

    :p

  71. Tobias

    heh

  72. bear

    :)

  73. jack

    Mythical Man Month is also a classic and a nice read

  74. Kev

    I do have that one.

  75. Kev

    I'm not sure which of the three categories it really fits into, though.

  76. jack

    it's the theoretical version of GTD :)

  77. Tobias

    theoretical...i hear...*boooring* ;)

  78. Florian

    lol

  79. bear

    anything else for gsoc book discussion?

  80. bear

    do we have any other agenda items?

  81. Kev

    As long as it ends up being a book on XMPP, a book on being a sensible dev, and a book on doing sensible things with time, I'm ok with whatever choices people come up with (as long as they've read them!).

  82. jack

    i'll shamelessly suggest my book as an alternative to TDG if there is someone who already has TDG :)

  83. bear

    +1

  84. Tobias

    how about beautiful testing?

  85. Kev

    Honestly, if there was someone doing web stuff I was going to suggest yours instead of TDG Jack.

  86. Kev

    I did go to buy a copy for myself until I saw they wanted something like $40 for a DRMd ebook :)

  87. bear

    unless someone has another item to cover, we are pretty much done for this meeting

  88. will.sheward

    nothing here

  89. bear pauses dramatically

  90. bear bangs the gavel

  91. bear

    thanks all - next meeting in two weeks - same time

  92. stpeter

    excellent

  93. stpeter goes back to the joy that is http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-xcon-common-data-model-27

  94. bear

    you have all the *fun*

  95. bear runs to get minutes to list

  96. Kev

    Tobias: I'd be inclined to speak to Remko about Beautiful Testing before requesting it, BTW, in case he has thoughts on the matter.