Few weeks ago these students had no idea what IRC or a code repository is but now take a look: http://tinyurl.com/condjunkies1
Good job!
Other OOP344 teams should take a look and follow....
Monday, February 22, 2010
This was a good meeting!
Today I was on the #seneca-oop344 channel on freenode and noticed Code junkies team having a meeting so I sat and watched. I was amazed to see how nicely this group managed an IRC meeting and used the SVN repository to work on their project concurrently and debug their code.
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Nice! Running and participating in an IRC meeting is an art that's tricky to master (particularly listening to multiple parallel threads of conversations when the channel gets really hot). In the #fedora-meeting channels, stickster and poelstra are masters of this - there are lots of IRC meeting logs available at http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/ if your students want to take a look at how other people run theirs.
ReplyDeleteOne thing that transformed IRC meetings for me was the addition of a logging bot. In Fedora, we use a meetbot plugin for zodbot: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Zodbot. What this means is that if we want to, say, assign someone an action item in the meeting, we type "#action Mel finish the foobar() function by Tuesday" (or whatever) and it automatically gets added to meeting notes at the end (they look something like http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting-1/2010-02-09/fedora-meeting-1.2010-02-09-20.05.html).
If there isn't a meeting bot available, and the students keep logs, they can always still use the tags (#action, #info, etc) and grep for them afterwards; sometimes I do that when I'm in a channel with no bot.
Gobby is another great distributed meeting tool - see http://poelcat.wordpress.com/2010/01/04/gobby-makes-meetings-better.