itaps-parallel ITAPS bootcamp

[Xiaolin Li]

OK, Lori, at least one of us (Ryan or me or both) will attend it.

Xiaolin

On Fri, 2009-07-31 at 10:44 -0700, Lori A. Diachin wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> We would like to hold a bootcamp in mid-September to discuss two primary 
> topics - Fields and Software processes; the dates will be Sept 9-Sept 11 
> (ending at noon) in Chicago which works for a significant subset of us - 
> and I'm hoping will work for most.  We plan to spend the first day, 
> Wednesday, on Fields where our goal is to find out what everyone thinks 
> about what a Field is, how it works, what its requirements are.  We will 
> have presentations in the morning (their length will depend on how many 
> are interested in talking) and we will spend the afternoon discussing, 
> and hopefully arriving at, a common terminology that we can use going 
> forward.  The second day and half will be spent on improving our 
> software engineering practices to ensure our software is more robust.  
> As a team, we need to settle on a set of best practices and then 
> implement them.  Please come prepared with ideas about what you think 
> would work well for the ITAPS team to improve the automation of our 
> software build/test/documentation process.
> 
> Please let me know ASAP if you can attend this meeting.  Based on a 
> conversation this morning I have Mark S., Tim and Carl all in agreement 
> with these dates.  For the fields discussion I would like to have Mark M 
> and Harold also present if at all possible (and others if interested).  
> For the software discussion on Thursday and Friday morning, I would like 
> Mark M, Tim and/or Jason, Karen and/or Vitus, Ken and/or Luo, Xiaolin 
> and/or Ryan, and Harold if at all possible.
> 
> Thanks,
> Lori
>