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Ongoing Issues

We have a number of outstanding issues that we wanted to wrap up or at least move forward.

1) A group project

2) Attracting Business people

3) Web-App testing for Rails

4) Pushing the XP envelope

New Charter

In the end we re-focused the charter of the group, from “being a place to practice XP” to “supporting multiple member XP initiatives”

Success Story

It seems like the ExplainPMT SIG, is really a great success story. John had a project and wanted to get more people involved. The group had people who were looking for a worthwhile project to help with. Click. They fit together well.

There were also people on the list who havn’t made it to a meeting that jumped on the project (ie Rob K). That’s great. That shows that the project filled a need that the meetings were not dealing with.

That’s the kind of stuff that we want to have happen more.

XP-Cinci’s Job

So, how can the meetings enable Special Projects? What we want to put together is a forumn for people to propose projects, and or others to get involved. These projects would then provide experience reports and code examples at the meetings. And on this xp-cinci blog. That way we could keep track of the various efforts when they generate news.

Each project can organize itself using ExplainPMT or whatever they want. Each project should have at least one sponser. (ExplainPMT thats John, of course). And one other team member.

Sponsor Responsibilities

The sponsor is responsibile for organizing the project pitching it to the full group in order to attract members and reporting to the xp-cinci blog when cool things occur.

Some of the projects proposed were the topics above and things we’ve talked about before.

Proposed Projects - sponsor

1) ExplainPMT - John

2) Attracting Business people - ??

3) Web-App testing for Rails - Mark

4) Pushing the XP envelope - build process automation - Edward

5) Ruby gems web site - Jim

6) www.xpcincinati.org website administration - open

Feel free to suggest (and sponsor) more ideas.

Projects should have an XP orientation of course. Testing, Planning, Automation, etc …

Much of this can be organized via the email list, but we would like to find someone to help John with the web site. Getting this multi-category blog up and running is a great start. Projects can then get it’s own category.

So. Wadda ya all think?