diff --git a/org-cyf-guides/content/contributing/minutes/index.md b/org-cyf-guides/content/contributing/minutes/index.md index 095776879..bc62fb26f 100644 --- a/org-cyf-guides/content/contributing/minutes/index.md +++ b/org-cyf-guides/content/contributing/minutes/index.md @@ -17,6 +17,75 @@ Attendees: --- +## 2024-10-22 + +Attendees: Ali Smith, Daniel Wagner-Hall, Sally McGrath + +### ❗Actions from last time + +- [x] Daniel: Check in on availability for first round of Piscine +- [x] Sally: Communicate the decision about "strictness of gatekeeping" to ITP team by commenting on a ticket +- [x] Ali: Review Daniel's Piscine PR +- [x] Sally: Come up with ideas for Ali to write up +- [x] Ali: Respond to feedback on Piscine PR +- [ ] Ali: Check in with the Dashboard team about Piscine reqs (write up a ticket for this) +- [x] Daniel: Ask Barath to get him to post in remote-volunteering channel +- [ ] All: Think about useful resources for SDC + +### 📝 Agenda points + +We did a big big project board clean-up and sprint-planning. + +#### React and tracks + +Three kinds of tracks: +* Independent study tracks +* Employer/Job/Role-focused tracks after ITP +* Employer/Job/Role-focused tracks after SDC + +Need to be clear what is a direct path to a job, and also that we won't support poeple indefinitely to just keep doing more learning without goals. + +Daniel will action this on the tracks website. + +#### Missing Piscine prereqs + +How overloaded is ITP? +* Intro module: Can't add anything meaningful in there. +* Structuring and Testing Data: Pretty dense +* Data Groups: Probably has some space +* Data Flows: Already incredibly dense + +* Errors, error handling, and try/catch - we could probably insert this into Data Groups somewhere. + * The concept that there _are_ errors and they need handling in some way is more important than try/catch. +* Working in groups + * Breaking down a project into things that can be done in parallel + * Merge conflicts and stuff + * This needs to be done in a standalone project - we can't expect people to learn anything else while they're fighting with merge conflicts. + +We should make tickets for: +* Reduce prereqs on Piscine - remove everything from Daniel's list _not_ listed above. +* ITP team to introduce errors in Data Groups +* ITP team to introduce a group-work project in Data Groups where the desired LO is resolving merge conflicts +* Ticket to require the object+array methods Codewars library in ITP at some point + +#### Parsing projects for Piscine? + +Probably too hard. + +#### Sally's Piscine project ideas + +We discussed a few. Codewars leaderboard, Swatches, Speak and Spell. + +Speak and Spell maybe doesn't have enough logicy content for Piscine, but could possibly be useful for a new group project? + +### ❗Actions + +- [ ] Ali (Carry-over): Check in with the Dashboard team about Piscine reqs (write up a ticket for this) +- [ ] All (Carry-over): Think about useful resources for SDC +- [ ] Daniel: Make a bunch of tickets described above + +--- + ## 2024-10-08 Attendees: Ali, Sally, Daniel