<div dir="ltr"><div><div>Hey everyone,<br><br></div>Very few people showed up for the discussion today, so those of us who were there decided that we should try to schedule another discussion with even fewer chapters to read.<br>
<br>I think that we have been a bit ambitious in how much we try to read for each discussion, so I would be in favor of more frequent smaller discussions in general. Of course, not everyone needs to read every book or participate in every discussion, but I think this would make things easier.<br>
<br></div>So, to test this new system, I propose we try getting together again in two weeks (Friday, September 6), and just discuss these chapters from the AOSA book:<br><br>* <a href="http://www.aosabook.org/en/bdb.html" target="_blank">http://www.aosabook.org/en/bdb.html<br>
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* <a href="http://www.aosabook.org/en/llvm.html" target="_blank">http://www.aosabook.org/en/llvm.html</a><br>
* <a href="http://www.aosabook.org/en/mercurial.html" target="_blank">http://www.aosabook.org/en/mercurial.html</a><br></div>
* <a href="http://www.aosabook.org/en/sendmail.html" target="_blank">http://www.aosabook.org/en/sendmail.html</a><br><div><div><div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">
Does that sound like a good idea? Please suggest any other ideas you might have to make this reading group more effective. This group is intended to be something fun and useful, and I want everyone to feel like they can take part in making it better!<br>
</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Best,<br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Margaret<br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">PS - I've also received some feedback that it would be nice if we had a place to take some notes while reading, so I made an etherpad here: <a href="https://etherpad.mozilla.org/aosa">https://etherpad.mozilla.org/aosa</a>. Feel free to add comments/notes to that as you read!<br>
</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 10:43 AM, Margaret Leibovic <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:margaret.leibovic@gmail.com" target="_blank">margaret.leibovic@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>Reminder: our discussion will be happening in 18 minutes. Here's a guest link to my Vidyo room that you can use if you don't have a Mozilla LDAP account:<br>
<a href="https://v.mozilla.com/flex.html?roomdirect.html&key=YdKxNprWsLJ6" target="_blank">https://v.mozilla.com/flex.html?roomdirect.html&key=YdKxNprWsLJ6</a><span class=""><font color="#888888"><br>
<br></font></span></div><span class=""><font color="#888888">Margaret<br></font></span></div><div class=""><div class="h5"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 11:35 AM, Margaret Leibovic <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:margaret.leibovic@gmail.com" target="_blank">margaret.leibovic@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Sorry, I didn't notice that the archives were private. That's now fixed! Here's the link:<br>
<a href="https://mail.mozilla.org/pipermail/dev-reading/2013-July/000032.html" target="_blank">https://mail.mozilla.org/pipermail/dev-reading/2013-July/000032.html</a><br>
</div><div><div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 11:24 AM, Margaret Leibovic <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:margaret.leibovic@gmail.com" target="_blank">margaret.leibovic@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><div><div>I just wanted to check in with everyone to see how reading this book has been going. I'm working through it more slowly than I expected (this seems to always happen!), so I want to propose that we focus on the chapters that Greg mentioned in the other thread [1] about this reading group book:<br>
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* <a href="http://www.aosabook.org/en/asterisk.html" target="_blank">http://www.aosabook.org/en/asterisk.html</a><br>
* <a href="http://www.aosabook.org/en/audacity.html" target="_blank">http://www.aosabook.org/en/audacity.html</a><br>
* <a href="http://www.aosabook.org/en/bdb.html" target="_blank">http://www.aosabook.org/en/bdb.html</a><br>
* <a href="http://www.aosabook.org/en/eclipse.html" target="_blank">http://www.aosabook.org/en/eclipse.html</a><br>
* <a href="http://www.aosabook.org/en/llvm.html" target="_blank">http://www.aosabook.org/en/llvm.html</a><br>
* <a href="http://www.aosabook.org/en/mercurial.html" target="_blank">http://www.aosabook.org/en/mercurial.html</a><br>
* <a href="http://www.aosabook.org/en/packaging.html" target="_blank">http://www.aosabook.org/en/packaging.html</a><br>
* <a href="http://www.aosabook.org/en/sendmail.html" target="_blank">http://www.aosabook.org/en/sendmail.html</a><br><br></div>Of course, if you read more than these chapters, it would be great to discuss them as well, but I wanted to provide some guidance for those of us who are disorganized about pacing ourselves through our monthly reading group book :)<br>
<br></div>Cheers,<br>Margaret<br><br></div>PS - Maybe for our next book we should create bi-weekly checkpoints to serve as a reminder to make progress reading the book. I've wanted to do something like that before, but I mentioning it here so that I'll be held accountable to actually do something about it!<br>
<div><div><div><br>[1] <a href="https://mail.mozilla.org/private/dev-reading/2013-July/000032.html" target="_blank">https://mail.mozilla.org/private/dev-reading/2013-July/000032.html</a><br>
<br><br></div></div></div></div><div><div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 3:29 PM, Margaret Leibovic <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:margaret.leibovic@gmail.com" target="_blank">margaret.leibovic@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>Hi everyone,<br><br>Time for a new book! For the month of August, we'll be reading The Architecture of Open Source Applications, Volume I [1]. If we find that it's hard to get through it, we can always focus on the first half for this month, then do the second half later (or just pick a sub-set of the applications to focus on).<br>
<br></div><div>Let's meet to discuss it Friday, August 23 at 11am PDT (earlier time to accommodate engineering lunch in SF/MV). I'll send out a calendar invite to dev-reading shortly. As always, details about the current reading are available on the wiki page [2].<br>
</div><div><br></div>Best,<br>Margaret<br><div><div><br>[1] <a href="http://www.aosabook.org/en/index.html" target="_blank">http://www.aosabook.org/en/index.html</a><br>[2] <a href="https://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox/Reading_Group" target="_blank">https://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox/Reading_Group</a><br>
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