[YLUG] YSG Inaugural meeting

[Tom Carver]

Sounds excellent to me, gutted I missed the meeting last night sounds like
a fun one! Will there be a new YSG mailing list or will the YLUG one be
used in the meantime?

Tom

On 1 February 2012 16:08, Philip Morrell <lists at emorrp1.name> wrote:

> Hi all, this is what happened at the social last night (with many,
> many tangents):
>
> York Software Group will fill the gap between professional/managerial
> talks (BCS/IBM) and dev pub meets (YLUG/Geek Club). YSG will provide
> hands-on guidance for professional software development in an
> apprentice/journeyman/master style, by building upon the ideas of
> agile programming and software craftsmanship. YSG will meet monthly,
> with a quarterly cycle of paper/talk/dojo/(social?).
>
> The first meeting is 7:45 for 8pm start, **Wed 29th Feb** at Fulford
> Scout HQ. Beginning with two 10min talks (agile, software
> craftsmanship) each with 5min Q&A before an 1hr paper development
> exercise. We need a poster making for this event!
>
> Liam, David, FuFu, Steve and I bought yorksoftwaregroup.org.uk to be
> our web presence, initially hosting a wiki and a mailing list.
> --
> Philip Morrell
>
> Actions:
> * Steve to setup wiki, list, do SoftCrafts talk
> * Dave to do agile talk
> * Liam to make agile stick
> * Phil to time-keep meeting
> * X to make poster for advertising
> * Y,Z to advertise to techie groups
>
> List of techie York groups: GeekClub (1st Thu), HackSpace (Wed), YLUG
> (Alt. Tue), HackSoc [CS staff, agileyorkshire, accu]
> List of potential meeting places: Fulford Scout HQ, Fulford Cemetery
> Lodge, Fulford School, York Uni
> List of topic ideas: CPD, NHS proj (mega-proj failure), Mosquito
> bomber (real-life agile), Time management (boxing, promodorar),
> Version control (e.g. Git, Hg, branching model)
>
> _______________________________________________
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> York at lists.lug.org.uk
> https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/york
>
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