Мастер-класс Request Tracker в Москве, Май 2010

Уникальная возможность лучше познакомиться с системой Request Tracker и узнать то, что Вы еще не знаете. В Москве, в мае пройдет мастер-класс. Это возможности из первых рук, от одного из разработчиков системы, получить ответы на интересующие Вас вопросы. Участие в мастер-классе позволит повысить свою квалификацию и успешно справляться с задачами администрирования и расширения RT под нужды вашей компании.

Заполни анкету прямо сейчас. 15го Марта будет известна стоимость (еще есть возможность повлиять на эту цифру), точные даты и место проведения. Все подробности на странице о мероприятии.

A "new" game you can play on a conference

Ok, YAPC::Russia 2009 is over, it was awesome event. I really liked it.

I'm going to talk about a game we played. Main idea is to gather new fantastic ideas for startups using -Ofun mode.

You have a subject, in our case it was the Perl.

You spend 15 minutes collecting a lot of events related to the subject that most pobably will happen in the near future (1-2 years), for example it's likely that perl5 will be in use on the same rate for the next couple of years. Chances are not 100% but very high, it's a perfect match.

It's ok to have things with lower chances to happen. This is prefectly fine.

At the end you should have a big list. We used some mindmap building software for managing and writing down ideas.

Then you decide that you're not interested in things that will happen for sure. And auditory spends next 15 minutes throwing away things that have 50% and more chances to happen and filling blanks with things that have lower chances. At the end you need from 3 to 5 events per 5-10 persons in the room.

For example microsoft releases perl6 or crazy things like nuclear war. It's better to avoid really crazy things.

Randomize list, split people into groups, each group gets from 3 to 5 events. People should imagine that they live in a world where events they recieved have happenned. Every group has 15 minutes to discuss new realities.

A delegate from each group present the future describing one or two things in their world. We were describing a CPAN module and an application writen in Perl. Here the list we had:

    1) big russian it companies organize a perl school
    2) CPAN gets simpler and understandable
    3) there is a perl CMS that you can distribute without a developer in the box
    4) russian kids study perl in low-school

Everything should be recorded in a file, so you have list of fancy ideas. You can compare different realities and come up with new ideas that applicable in the real world.

Photos from hackmeet

http://foto.rambler.ru/users/hsw/4/

It's close to the day X

We have place defined: "Business inda .ru style" club provides us room, internet sccess and may be even online video translation.

We have time defined: 9:00 - 21:00 Europe/Moscow TZ (UTC+3h)

We have crew: 12 perl developers and one CSS guru

We have project defined: described earlier in this blog.

We have IRC channels defined: #moscow.hm on irc.perl.org for English speaking

All is set. See you on onsite and in IRC.

Idea

Write perlplanet.ru implementation with additional features, like onsite publishing, tags, comments, some sort of back syncing. Whatever we will have time to.

We're going to publish everything in a public repository online or even keep up to date server for people to test the app in real time. So people from different places can join us on IRC or develop with us. Even if people don't want to develop they can help us find quick solutions or just keep pushing us by sarcastic comments :)

Goals

• Write ready for deployment application within 8-12 hours
• Share experience
• Try collective rapid development
• Try Catalyst framework
• See how far we can go in a short period of time
• Have a lot of fun
• Eat pizza

Tools

perl 5.8, Catalyst, Plagger, git and many different modules from CPAN :)

Moscow Perl Mongers group organizes one day hackmeet next saturday

Next saturday (17 Jan 2009) Moscow Perl community going to hack whole day on a simple web-service project. All developers will be in one room with their laptops up to 12 hours and will try to make Catalyst based application start from blank paper. Experience of developers varies from "low perl" to "have some catalyst-based projects". It's gonna be fun.

Russian and English speaking communities who wouldn't be able to join us onsite can help us online. I've created IRC channel #moscow.hm on irc.perl.org for English speaking and there is #moscow.pm on  rusnet.org.ru server for people speaking in Russian. We'll use git (may be svn) and will be posting commits to some public domain (github probably), so you'll be able to hack with us as well.

Details for attendies are on moscow.pm's mailing list.

You're welcome to join us onsite or online in IRC or repository. I'll keep posting details here.