[OSGeo-Discuss] [Board] Funding code Sprints

[Andrea Aime]

On Sun, Mar 6, 2016 at 3:18 PM, Hogan, Patrick (ARC-PX) <
patrick.hogan at nasa.gov> wrote:

> It appears to me that even these more-substantial-than-hackathons sprints
> do not reflect the typical work environment for code development. I will
> suggest that requires more of the 'deep thought' Leonardo approach versus
> the more intuitive 'just start chiseling' of a Michelangelo.
>

Patrick, it seems to be you imagining a work environment that's quite
different from the one a software developer in a company doing consulting
(typical open source setup) has.

My normal work environment requires me to work for 2-5 different customers
a day spanning from training, spec-ing and designing new
modules/applications, meetings, and actual development, along with
answering questions from my colleagues on other activities, often unrelated
to the ones that I'm in charge of.
During a typical open source code sprint I'm focused on a single activity
all day instead.

To be clear, I'm not complaining, if my daily work was single activity I'd
walk away out of boredom, what keeps the typical code sprint
engaging is also that we normally take on activity that seem hard to fit in
the allowed time, and thus require some
extras in terms of concentration and inventiveness to actually get
completed :-p

I'd say the recipe for a typical successful open source code sprint is:
* Several developers in the same room, that are normally working from
remote in different time zones
* An ambitious objective (not so large/difficult that it's impossible to
complete, but enough that you cannot relax and finish it anyways)
* Typically, full day experience (e.g., we have lunch and dinner together
too)
* Coffee... lots of it :-p

Cheers
Andrea

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