Comments on: Sprint Organization: New Rules!

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By: whit

whit — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 14:18:21 +0000

I’d add that tutorials and presenting (past and present work, useful tools, even vaporware) has been a big part of the plone and snowsprint culture (note, snowsprint is not a plone sprint anymore…).

Location is important, not just for glamor, but also for the ability to provide a certain amount of convenience isolation from the outside world. It should be easy for sprinter to stumble home drunk, happy, and code-burned in the whee hours of the morning. They should be able to commune and hack around the clock. There should be some possibilities for alternate activities, but not a distracting flood of them. Sometimes even lack of internet access is a boon.

How you define success is important too. I’m not sure if scope makes any difference if you have fuzzy goals or unrealistic expectations of what it takes to accomplish them.

Sometimes everyone hanging out in person is more valuable than the code created. Or clearing boilerplate bits like documentation, packaging and build so more people can easily participate. The attainable goals are set by who shows up… if a project has poor documentation and a shitty build and mostly beginners show, that’s what everyone is going to work on regardless of proclaimed goals.

Open source is best led by the needs of individuals and is most successful when it adapts to those needs. I think having clear topics that a sprint will tackle goes a long way to appealing to those needs and rallying troops around a cause, but a tight scope will almost always limit the participants. Sometimes that’s a good thing, but depends on what you are defining as success.