2018-03-01 Planning for Pawel's Scala dialect tutorials

Date

01 Mar 2018

Attendees virtual meeting

Background

There is a need in the development team to align on a dialect of Scala. Doing so will help improve quality of code and efficiency of development and review. Pawel proposed leading a series of sessions to teach a dialect to the team, and for the team to practice and build alignment on a dialect. On 1 March, Nash approved this proposal as long as it can be done in a way that can be reused as new developers join the team. Achieving this will require recordings of the sessions, tutorials, and a style guide.

Goals

Plan a series of Scala tutorials
Prepare tutorials to be delivered with the sessions
Record sessions for future use during on boarding or reference
Create a style guide for use during on boarding or reference

Open questions

Question	Who	Response
How many sessions should there be?	Pawel Szulc (Unlicensed)	I will have to think about the initial plan. But the agenda will be dynamic, we will be only covering topics that are needed and so this will be a living entity, adjusting to attendees.
How long should a session be?	Pawel Szulc (Unlicensed)	I think something between 30-60 min. I will propose a topic to be covered, will do a small tutorial that will be dynamically mixed with questions. I might propose some "homework" for people who would be interested with exercise.
What is the cadence for delivery? weekly? bi-weekly?	Pawel Szulc (Unlicensed)	I would start slowly, bi-weekly, so it does not interfere with my work
Can we record in Zoom?	Kelly Foster	Yes, we can record in Zoom.
How much time required to prepare for the sessions and tutorials?	Pawel Szulc (Unlicensed)	An hour, maybe two. Depending on the topic. We will be mostly covering existing code from comm but some prepration on "entry level" material will be required on my side.
What is the best day of the week, time of day to deliver?	Pawel Szulc (Unlicensed)	I guess evening Europe / morning US. 6 or 7 pm UTC?
How can these sessions best fit into sprint cadence?	Medha Parlikar (Unlicensed)	In order to ensure flow during the work week, request that these sessions be held on Fridays after standups in the morning, or mid day.

Action items

@Kelly on 12 March follow up with Pawel on scheduling of first session