[Events] guidelines for planning and running a sprint?

[sheila miguez]

Also, I'd like to know if there are any special things to do when it
is an open source project that has never had a sprint before. The
project is a prototype with beta users who are not programmers, and
not all of the code exists yet.

On Sat, Feb 23, 2013 at 7:51 AM, sheila miguez <shekay at pobox.com> wrote:
> Here is a followup in case it helps other people.
>
> The opendatadata hackathon how-to guide is really nice! I think it has
> a lot of logistics advice that will help for sprint planning. Do any
> of you have thoughts on things that will be different in the case of
> sprints? The pycon sprints are 4 days.
>
> <https://docs.google.com/folder/d/0B-243ski8vJiOHoxTlV0b0FBcjg/edit?usp=sharing&docId=182h9L2kIoO0O4iAvubHtAjRHgGoXebNVLy1h__hpL_8>
>
> For the pycon sprint I was asked to help with, I started a wiki page
> <https://github.com/codersquid/openscienceframework/wiki/Pycon-Sprint-Ideas>.
> I don't have complete consensus on what should be done during the
> sprint, so I haven't moved that content to the pycon wiki yet.
>
> Based on the hackathon page, should we have a section that gives a
> rough outline for the day and also introduce the people each day who
> are taking on sprint roles?
>
> This is the first sprint I've helped with, so I would like to know if
> I'm over-thinking it and over-preparing for it. I want to be prepared,
> and I also want to make sure I'm not going to be giving an impression
> to the people who show up that the sprint is rigid and they have no
> choices.
>
> On Sun, Feb 17, 2013 at 12:31 PM, sheila miguez <shekay at pobox.com> wrote:
>> Hi everyone,
>>
>> Someone asked me to help with a pycon sprint, and since this is my
>> first time helping to run a sprint, I'd like to ask for your thoughts
>> on how to run a successful sprint. I've had help from using the bpw
>> openhatch wiki pages for running workshops, and I was wondering if
>> there are meta sprint wiki pages for people who are making sprints.
>>
>> --
>> sheila
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> --
> sheila



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sheila