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[Gary Poster <gary.poster@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Aug 15, 2012, at 3:07 AM, "Nicola 'teknico' Larosa" <nicola.larosa@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Gary Poster wrote:
>> Hi everyone.  I'm including Nicola because hopefully he will be with
>> us, and if so, this news will affect him.
> 
> Thanks, Gary. Well, anything can happen but it's more than hope by now,
> isn't it? :-)

Well, yes, it's a plan. :-)

> 
> 
>> * Martin and I had talked about Nicola starting on yellow squad Sept.
>> 10.  Because of the new Sept. 3 timeline, I asked Martin if we could
>> start Nicola earlier.  He said it would be tight, but he would see
>> what he could do.  If he can't adjust, we'll deal with it.
> 
> I guess I'll have to work for both projects that week. ;-)
> 
> 
>> * Our next project will be to write a Juju GUI in YUI--a single-page
>> JS app.  I've forgotten what Kapil Thangavelu told me the GUI is of,
>> but I think it is for live server status and that sort of thing, able
>> to handle thousands of servers, using SVG.  We will not be involved
>> with the server side at all: we will only be in charge of the JS.
> 
> Heh, I asked for changes and as they say, be careful what you ask for. :-)
> 
> I did two such things in 2007 and 2008 using ExtJS (now Sencha). In
> Ubuntu One I dabbled with some YUI code, nothing systematic though.
> 
> Time to brush up my Crockford and delve into YUI, I guess!
> 
> 
>> * Kapil is the architect and product leader.
>> * This project is high-profile: something that the product team (read:
>> Mark) cares about.
>> * Because it is a product team project, the travel ban is not in
>> effect.
> 
> Priorities, uh? That's nice. :-)
> 
> 
>> * The entire squad will have an initial week-long sprint in September,
>> maybe somewhere in the US East Coast.  This will also represent
>> Nicola's induction sprint.  I will try to hammer out details about
>> this with Kapil as soon as possible.
> 
> Yay! Keep in mind that Italy in September is beautiful too. :-)

I definitely have already thought this. :-)  We'll see.  As I understand it, Kapil is the primary decision maker.  With him, we have four people on this side of the Atlantic and two on yours, so unfortunately it will probably be significantly cheaper to have you all come over here.

> 
> 
>> * We will all be expected to attend the last three days of the product
>> strategy sprint: Oct 24-26 in Copenhagen.  We might also be asked to
>> stay for some of the following week, for UDS: that's to be determined.
>> If you would really like to stay, or really not like to stay, please
>> let me know so I can factor that into the plans as best I can.  I will
>> arrive earlier, on Oct 22, and might need to stay later.
> 
> So I get to meet you guys face to face twice within two months? That's
> nice. :-) When I started at Canonical in 2009, it took five months before
> I could be around some colleagues.

Yeah, definitely much better than I was expecting too. :-)

Gary

> 
> 
> Bring on those flaming chrome foxes! :-)
> 
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