That could work with a theme... the goal doesn't have to be a game? It's more inventing the problem as you go?
Unrelated thought for a good exercise... new requirements are introduced at half time... and then 5 minutes before the end... like real life. On Jul 15, 2013 2:05 PM, "Jonathan Hartley" <tart...@tartley.com> wrote: > I don't think this helps, but it's a model I think is otherwise widely > applicable, so I'll spread the seed: > > One model I've seen work well on game programming challenges is that > self-selected leaders will each pitch their project vision, and then > participants will decide which leader's team they would like to join. > Leaders may also prefer other pitches to their own, and decide to revoke or > merge pitches (generally, only one leader in a merged pitch will retain the > 'leader' tag) > > This has advantages that: > > * self-selected leaders are vetted by the crowd. If they are revealed, > during their pitch, to be blustering buffoons, then people can vote with > their feet. > > * everyone gets to work with the project/leadership that they choose, so > in theory happiness is maximised (for everyone apart from the 'failed' > project leaders.) > > * projects which are popular are allocated correspondingly generous > personpower. > > The disadvantages are: > > * It isn't remotely relevant to our current dojo format > > * It doesn't give even distribution of team sizes > > Jonathan > > > > On 12/07/13 20:53, xtian wrote: > > I like the sound of this - Scrapheap Challenge style. You're right, it > would take a bit more organisation though. > > On 12 Jul 2013, at 14:31, Alistair Broomhead <alistair.broomh...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > Something that may may not work (I guess it would take a fair amount of > organisation) once a challenge has been picked, we ask people to volunteer > as team leaders, they get a git repo set up and write tests, but their main > role is to advise their team and give them a nudge on things which are > stopping them from progressing. This would mean that each team has an > 'expert', but I guess it would also mean people who were willing to take > this role would have to bring a laptop off their own -an issue for me as I > don't own one... > On 12 Jul 2013 14:19, "Javier Llopis" <jav...@correo.com> wrote: > >> >> >> Another person could simply say: mmm... interesting but... not for my >> >> level. And stop coming. Do you really want this? >> > >> > When all's said and done, if someone doesn't think it's for them, then >> > it's not for them. We can try to be as accommodating as possible, but >> > you can't please all the people all the time. >> > >> >> ...And in this case, I would rather try to keep the expert coders in >> instead of the newbies. Better be challenged than bored. >> >> Just my 2p >> >> J >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> python-uk mailing list >> python-uk@python.org >> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-uk >> > _______________________________________________ > python-uk mailing list > python-uk@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-uk > > > > _______________________________________________ > python-uk mailing > listpython-uk@python.orghttp://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-uk > > > > -- > Jonathan Hartley tart...@tartley.com http://tartley.com > Made of meat. +44 7737 062 225 twitter/skype: tartley > > > > _______________________________________________ > python-uk mailing list > python-uk@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-uk > >
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