[eclipse.org-committers] Committer Gathering

[Ward Cunningham <ward.cunningham@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dear Committers,

The Eclipse Foundation will be hosting a committer gathering at the  
McMenamins Kennedy School in Portland, Oregon, collocated with the  
Agile Open Northwest 2007 conference. Our event will consist of two  
parts, both on Wednesday, January 31st:

	2:20 to 5:30 pm
	Agile Technology: Implications of Experience
	(Committer event)
	
	7:00 to 9:00 pm
	Co-evolution Picnic: Fish Bowl Conversation
	(Plenary event with Agile conference)
	

Both events are open to Eclipse committers, free of charge, with  
email registration to Anne Jacko, anne.jacko@xxxxxxxxxxx. Details of  
each event follow.

Best regards,
Ward Cunningham
Eclipse Foundation


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Agile Technology: Implications of Experience

This workshop will explore our own experience with Agile methods and/ 
or tools and reflect on what that might suggest for our own future.

The format will be the five minute position statement followed by  
interview format pioneered by the LAWST workshops and used by our own  
Dynamic Languages Workshop a year ago. An advantage of the format is  
that it stays interesting and participatory while not requiring  
elaborate preparation by speakers.

We will have recruited some interesting speakers. However, if you  
have experience you would like to share, please include a paragraph  
about it in your registration. If you're interested but unsure, email  
me, ward.cunningham@xxxxxxxxxxx.

We've sent this invitation to Northwest Eclipse committers as  
identified in our foundation database. If you know committers, or  
contributors who would benefit from this event, please pass this  
invitation along.

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Co-evolution Picnic: Fish Bowl Conversation

We will join the rest of the conference attendees for this plenary  
session that could easily build on or validate conversations we have  
had earlier in the day:

The agile revolution has been enabled by tools. Methodologists will  
grant this while they distance themselves from any particular  
toolset. Likewise tool-smiths are reticent to align too closely with  
agile methodology for fear of dividing their market too. This failure  
to embrace the obvious has slowed the growth of both fields.

Join us for an evening of suspended realities where we collectively  
imagine the tools and methods of our dreams. Ward Cunningham of the  
Eclipse Foundation will launch this progressive conversation using  
the participatory panel format called a Goldfish Bowl. This capstone  
event complements the distributed open space format while still  
engaging all attendees in a forward looking cooperation.

Biology calls the advance of intertwined species "co-evolution".  
We've chosen to call this event the "Co-evolution Picnic" because  
we're imagining for an evening that this evolution will be easy.  
Keeping with the picnic theme, there will be food.

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Of course committers are encouraged to participate in the modestly  
priced Agile Open Northwest event itself, which runs both Tuesday and  
Wednesday. Their information and registration forms are found here:

	http://www.agileopennorthwest.org/