From 66511731218d8d68c0fd656b410e02c7053872a9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Alasdair Smith Date: Sat, 16 Sep 2023 12:29:41 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Minutes for 2023-09-14 --- docs/contributing/minutes.md | 86 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 85 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/docs/contributing/minutes.md b/docs/contributing/minutes.md index 0e258c3229..bb1dcb5e71 100644 --- a/docs/contributing/minutes.md +++ b/docs/contributing/minutes.md @@ -16,6 +16,90 @@ Attendees: --- +## 2023-09-14 + +Attendees: Sally, Mitch, Daniel, Ali + +### ❗Actions from last time + +- [x] Everyone: keep coming up with project ideas +- [ ] Mitch: Draft out "project day-plan" (issue) +- [x] Mitch: Review Sally's blockData PR asap +- [x] Daniel: (Carry-over) give feedback to Berkeli on coursework clone button +- Daniel?: (Carry-over) Look through the MigraCode curriculum and understand strengths and gaps. + +### 📝 Agenda points + +#### Actions from last time + +- Projects + - What's the final form? Throw them in the google drive folder +- Clone issues work from Berkeli + - Daniel has been reviewing, it's very close + - Needs to check that there's some error handling + +#### JS1 Update + +- Sally & Mitch have got JS1 over the line today! 🎉 + - Prep, workshops, day plans +- Biggest change: testing now built in from the start + - Coursework has been updated to reflect that + - Sally raised some objections - wanted to get some feedback on their PRs + - Solution: reject if the PR is empty, linting fails, checking for presence of `console.assert`. If these fail, then set the PR to draft & post a comment to explain + - Aside: Ali recently learned that Node 20 has a built-in test runner, so we could potentially run tests without installing a library. However it might not be a bad thing to get trainees familiar with industry-standard +- Previously trainees were skimming through week 1 as there was so much content. Now we're going deeper thanks to the rewrite, there's more trainees that will feel the limits of their understanding + +#### WM5 + +- Sally: some issues + - Zero code reviews are being done by mentors on the module repo + - The work that is being submitted is brilliant, but 1/3 of the class have submitted nothing + +#### Speaking to new cohorts + +- Mitch running Learning as Community workshop for NW6 + - What tone do we want to set? + - We want to be honest (both about the job market and our/their conduct in the course) + - Regarding the job market, we don't want to freak people out, but we want to be honest + - We are looking 1 year ahead, so the market may change by the time they're looking + - Trainees are going to hear discussion of the job market regardless of whether we address it or not + - We can talk about the ways in which our community can do better in this environment than paid bootcamps + - We already have no money! + - We lean on the community to help each other out + +#### Review priorities + +- Lots of things to review - what should we look at first? + - Daniel will have a reasonable amount of time for reviews +- Sally: WM5 is doing Week 4 of HTML, so we need to have JS1 completely tied up. The next cohort to start is NW6, doing induction on Sat 16th +- Sally is initialising the DB module, but wants Keith & co to work on the actual content + +#### Module Project + +- HTML module project + - Karma clone - get given a website, trainees have to make a "perfect" clone of it + - Following weeks trainees have to build new features onto this website + - Daniel's critique: in fundamentals we have set of Plan / Build / Test / Ship over each week - shouldn't we deploy in week 1? + - Sally: we should be doing a version of Plan / Build / Test / Ship every week + - Daniel really likes the "Levels" context: you have to complete e.g. Level 100 tasks (and deploy) before moving to Level 200 +- Our project doesn't quite work for it + +#### Helping prepare for Town Hall + +- Town hall to discuss the state of employment/CYF likely scheduled for next week sometime +- Is there anything we can do to help prepare + - Staff preparing slides + - Talk to volunteers to prepare them for shift in focus, get buy-in + +### ❗Actions + +- Everyone: keep coming up with project ideas +- Mitch: Continue with JS2 rewrite +- Everyone: Continue reviewing rewrite PRs +- Daniel: (Carry-over) Look through the MigraCode curriculum and understand strengths and gaps + +--- + ## 2023-08-31 Attendees: Sally, Ali, Daniel, Mitch @@ -168,7 +252,7 @@ Mitch: - JS1 week 1 is done - JS1 week 2 soon to come - Soon have about half the prep released/ready for review - - Support with someone else for video + - Support with someone else for video - Matching exercise rewrites where necessary #### WM doing html/css week 1