hope your ready for the scrum meeting this month. it’s up on the calendar as DMS Software Development Priority Meeting
I must be blind. I cannot see the meeting summary anywhere.
https://calendar.dallasmakerspace.org/events/view/4442
Summary
About this Event
We’ll be addressing and tracking efforts on items listed in our Github Tracker and in https://github.com/orgs/Dallas-Makerspace/projects.
If your one of the Committee leaders, a Board member, Infrastructure Committee member, regular member looking to gain experience with scrum/agile practices, or a Volunteer that help developing software for the Dallas Makerspace then this is for you.
The first agenda item is to address issues discovered in the calendar, areas of improvement, and enabling a restful API to the calendar for development of the DMS Progressive Web App can be completed.
At the end of the meeting there should be:
- At lease three action items addressed
- Story points assigned and Backlog groomed
- Stories Items (ie bug reports, feature requests,user stories, etc.) handed out to committed individuals to resolve.
Edit:
Unless you meant this “Software Development Committee - Initial Meeting”? I didn’t see that until this afternoon and it wasn’t up on the calendar.
No, I was replying to the original post.
Coul and I spoke in the Common Room around 2 AM and he said he posted a summary of the meeting. I am not seeing it.
@denzuko I get a 404 error on this link. I cannot find it either by searching github. I will try to make Thursday’s meeting but 5pm is rough. 6pm significantly better.
@Coul I am interested in this as well, whether under VCC, DM, or Classroom, or a separate committee.
Sorry guys, thought it posted. Here ya go:
If you have an interest in joining the Software Dev Committee, PM me so I can add your name to the list of interested members.
We had a large turnout at tonight’s initial meeting. If you are interested, but unable to attend tonight’s meeting, no worry, the most important item on the agenda was the move to form an independent committee for Software Development which passed. We also spoke in general terms on goals of the committee such as teaching software development, attracting guest speakers who are leaders in related disciplines, working with Infrastructure on DMS related projects, and sponsoring hackathons. There were quite a few more great ideas being tossed around, but these have been the items most discussed and are the ones I will be taking to the board. Since, at the moment, a chair has not been elected, the newly formed committee might modify portions of the committee’s goals.
I will go before the board this Sunday @ 5p to express our interest in starting a new committee, give the goals of the new committee and convey the level of interest.
If you feel like you can add value to the presentation, let me know.
We also set a meeting time, pending board approval, for Tuesday, December 5th @ 7p. At that time, we will vote in the new chair for Software Development. I am removing myself as an option for SD chair.
In case you forgot already: If you have an interest in joining the Software Dev Committee, PM me so I can add your name to the list of interested members.
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An additional update:
More discussion took place after the meeting which involved @denzuko, @Photomancer and me. I had to leave after a short time to go make, but, without me talking to Dwight yet and hearing this 2nd hand, they seem to think it would be an easier transition to change VCC into a special interest group (SIG) under the Software Development Committee who would elect a new chair, then take the committee position VCC currently holds.
My understanding the reason for this is because there are board members want fewer committees, not more, so it would possibly be easier to get passed by the board.
Personally, I’m great with that idea if it makes the transition smoother. I really don’t care one way or the other as long as Software Dev is made into its own committee, which is long over-due.
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If there are more people taking SW Dev classes than participating in the vintage part, then that transition makes sense.
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Are we going to review other barely active committees; such as civic hacking and aerospace? Of the three, VCC seems far more active.
Heard - but did not read anywhere - that Aerospace is no longer a committee.
Civic hacking could become an SIG under new SD/IT committtee? Which might breathe new life into it?
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RC & Combat Robot are leaving.
Thoughts being bandied about is the area where RC is will be replaced with at least three dedicated workstations, i.e no YouTube or web browsing - even if empty. Don’t want it so people have to “ask someone to logoff”. This will allow folks that have to work on CADCAM, Laser files, CNC projects, Creative Cloud, etc. to have computers available designed for those needs.
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This is now official. We are looking to make purchases of the three dedicated workstations on Black Friday
I’ve always been supportive of Civic hacking and was talking with one of our members last night how we could use Processing.js and OpenCV to build an interactive projector app like GRL Laser Tag but with an important community message kind of thing and include hidden cameras for OpenCV to process message engagement and crowd sentiment.
I even feel we could build out the maker bus into a mobile civic hacking platform, while working more with PR and the other committees to do build some real positive impact with things like Net Neutrality and other issues that we discover along the way.
In the TL;DR, yes it would be more than welcomed as a SIG and I would love for the group to have a larger impact around the space and within our community around the DFW area.
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I plan to put it before the board that the Civic Hacking Committee be assigned as a SIG under Software. It has not needed to be a committee for a long time, but didn’t really have a logical home until Software came along.
[UPDATE] It has been added to the consent agenda. https://dallasmakerspace.org/wiki/Board_of_Directors_Meeting_20171119#Consent_Agenda
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It is official only when the BoD allocates funds and space. I strongly believe it will happen, but until it does, it merely my opinion and hope.
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i am interested as well
UPDATE:
Tuesday night we had a meeting to discuss the formation of a new Software Development Committee where around 20 people showed. The only attendee to voice against the new committee was Dwight. All else were in favor of moving forward with the new committee and, as a whole minus a single hole, agreed we would approach the board with our agenda. This is the way the meeting was left.
After the meeting, Dwight, David K. and me were having a discussion regarding the future of Software Development. David we explaining the difficulty it would be now that some of the BoD members want to limit new committees. There was talk about renaming VCC to software development and VCC being a SIG under the new committee.
Later that night I had a post ready for a board agenda but decided to wait after Dwight and I agreed to meet the next day as I wanted to hear everything he had to say on the subject.
Unfortunately, the next morning, Dwight took it upon himself to go against the wishes of the Software Development community and post a board agenda to make VCC the new Software Development committee appointing himself as chair.
Although this seemed a bit underhanded to me and upset a number of members given the meeting we had a few hours ago, it seems to me to be the best option and the path of least resistance.
There is currently a meeting set for Dec. 5th for the new Software Development Committee. At this time, we can elect a new chair if this is what the committee decides.
I want to thank all of you who have taken an interest in this long over-due committee. If you are able, please attend Sunday night’s Bod meeting @ 5p to show your support.
For those of you who were unable to attend Tuesday’s meeting, here are the notes provided thanks to @Brian:
This is what I took away from the meeting…
Software Development currently has at least three homes: Vintage Computer, Infrastructure, Digital Media.
The official home is Digital Media.
@Coul believes the time has come for Software Development to be a new committee. The people in attendance were in strong agreement.
The plan is to propose forming a new committee and removing Software Development from Digital Media at the next board meeting (Sunday). The people in attendance were in strong agreement.
@denzuko suggested reforming Vintage Computer into Software Development. I see this suggestion as a difference without distinction. The end result is the same: a new committee is formed for Software Development.
If the new committee is formed the first meeting is to occur in early December. A chair is to be selected at that time. The people in attendance were in strong agreement.
I believe @Coul nominated someone for chair (Humdan Bakhshi?)
@denzuko advocated for himself as chair given the depth and breadth of the software classes that have been taught under the umbrella of Vintage Computer.
You cannot claim that this meeting is truly representative of the community.
How many of the 45 or so people you tagged in the OP were there?
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I would suggest that this does not need to be voted on at Sunday’s board of directors meeting until a couple of things happen. First off I see the support of a possible new committee but a meeting should be given plenty of notice on the calendar to let all interested take part in said meeting. Secondly I would love to see a clear consensus as to what you are wanting before you take time at the BOD meeting. I think I the idea is wonderful but I, personally, as a board member do not want to try to make decisions about a possible new committee without said group exploring exactly what it wants or who it wants to lead it. Thank you in advance for working together with this exciting idea.
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