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Call for Papers: Opportunities And Challenges Of Going Agile
演讲召集：走向敏捷的机遇和挑战

With growing interest in Agile software development, more and more companies in China are facing questions and challenges implementing Scrum. At Shanghai Scrum Forum, experienced developers and managers will share tips and tricks on how to get started with Scrum, improve workflows and deliver software that makes clients happy.

随着对敏捷软件开发有兴趣的人越来越多，更多在中国的公司将面临实施Scrum的问题和挑战。在上海Scrum大会中，有经验的开发者和管理者将会分享开展Scrum、改进工作流程和交付客户满意软件的技巧和诀窍。

If you are a Scrum practitioner and would like to give a presentation at Shanghai Scrum Forum, please contact Thomas Karsten at thomas.karsten@thenetcircle.com for more information with a brief description of the topic you could cover.

如果你是有经验的Scrum实施者，并且愿意在上海Scrum大会上提供演讲，请通过thomas.karsten@thenetcircle.com联系Thomas Karsten获得更多信息，也请准备一个对你话题的简短介绍。

Shanghai Scrum Forum will be free and open to everyone interested in Agile software development. This event is sponsored by OutSofting and The NetCircle. If you are interested in becoming a sponsor as well, please contact Samuel Pierquin at sam@thenetcircle.com .

上海Scrum大会将免费对所有对敏捷软件开发有兴趣的人开放。此次活动由OutSofting和The NetCircle赞助。如果你也有兴趣成为赞助商，请通过sam@thenetcircle.com联系Samuel Pierquin。

Date: Sunday, October 17
Location: The NetCircle
Loft C 7-14, E-Warehouse Creative Center
751 Yi Chang Lu (Putuo district)

日期：10月17日（周日）
地点：The NetCircle
普陀区宜昌路751号Loft C 7-14, E-Warehouse Creative Center

On June 12th The NetCircle hosted the first barcamp Shanghai in 2010 and it was an exciting day.

Even though the worldcup started the night before the first participants showed up before 9am and did’ t hesitate to help us with the final preparations – thats the spirit of barcamp.

Around 10:30 we started with a bilingual moderation and an introduction round and went straight into the first session slot afterwards. In total we had around 25 presentations, touching topics from development over startup management and metrics to learning chinese.

More than 90 participants from all over the world turned the barcamp into an inspirational and fun day – I am very happy that I’ ve had the opportunity to organise “my barcamp shanghai” – as this is another dream that came true.

We would like to thank all the participants for making this barcamp shanghai such a succcessful event – every barcamp is only as good as the people who participate.

We may proudly announce that we`ll host our second barcamp Shanghai here at the NetCircle on June 12th 2010.

What: BarCamp Shanghai 2010
When: Saturday, June 12, 9:30am – 06:00pm + afterparty @wkshanghai
Where: The NetCircle HQ

Sign up here for barcamp Shanghai

What is a Barcamp? (Short Version: A 24-hour ad-hoc, all-play unconference where everyone who attends participates by presenting or helping out.)

I am also very glad to be one of the organisers of this barcamp Shanghai as organising these unconferences is one of my passions. Back in Germany I Co-founded the communitycamp and artcamp, co-organised barcamp Hamburg & wordcamp and helped out at many other camps.

I’m very excited as this barcamp also will be my first one outside of Europe and am looking forward to many interesting people, sessions and conversations – hope to see you there :-)

Last week was held in Paris the second Symfony Live conference. Over 2 days, 350 (!!!) participants listened to 20 sessions; covering different subjects like usage of Symfony events, introduction to GIT and the first presentation/release of Symfony 2. It was a great gathering of the framework users but also of PHP and Open Source enthusiasts. We could exchange our experience with other developers, prepare some future collaboration and enjoy some french food.

This was also the first presentation of our work to the outside world thanks to the session of one of our coworker, Alvaro Videla. His talk was about “Debugging and Profiling Symfony applications” presenting the tools developed and/or used in the company to run our main project. It also introduced some performance issue we had to deal with during our deployment of symfony 1.0 and 1.2. This was the first time the company’s work is publicized openly, due to its “special” nature, and the feedback is quite good so far, encouraging us to share more about our work.

The highlight of the conference was the first preview release of Symfony 2 (note the upper case S). This new version focused on speed and flexibility. By getting rid of the magic (magic methods, calls…) and using a few patterns (like dependency injection), the framework matures to a totally new level. Doctrine 2 was also revealed and follows the same path of speed/quality focus as well; this is very encouraging and I hope it will push for an increase of quality and reconnaissance in the PHP world. The final release is still far ahead, planned for late 2010, (beta available on github) but this already sounds very promising.

Another important point was the choice of using some Zend Framework components (logger, cache) instead of reinventing them; showing that collaboration, and not competition, is possible between the different frameworks. This is also quite interesting for the community; let’s see how it develops.

Stay tuned!

As we hear the question “what is a Barcamp?” pretty often, here’s a quick explanation:

Wikipedia says: BarCamp is an international network of user generated conferences — open, participatory workshop-events, whose content is provided by participants.

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Tantek Çelik provided the rules (source barcamp.org) based on the

For me that’s the most important part: be an interactive participant! as in interaction, dialog, involvement, question and answer, transfer. A Barcamp is what you make it! If people don’t interact we will end up sitting in a room quietly. If everybody is an proactive participant though we will spend a fun time, sharing our knowlede, learning together, discussing, meeting new friend, having new ideas, …

Sessionplan at UXCamp Berlin

What are the topics?

Whatever the participants are interested in. Traditionally geeky stuff, but if people keep asking you about your famous chicken pie recipe why not give a session about that. Or the other way around: You are very interested in a certain topic let’s say “optimizing Propel queries” just suggest a session about that, most likely somebody might stand up and say “Hey I know that stuff pretty well, I can give a session where you can ask questions, if enough people are interested, otherwise just chat with me lateron”. There are Barcamps with special topics UXCamp for example. UX stands for User Experience and it’s basically a Barcamp for User Experience, but also here it would be no problem to have a session about chicken pie, if you find your audience.

Where can I suggest my session? What will the schedule be?

A Barcamp day starts with the suggestion of the sessions. So everybody describes the kind of session the can do in about 30 seconds than the people who are interested just raise their hands. This way you know how many people might attend and which room to choose, if there are rooms with different sizes and equipment. Then the session gets pinned on the board for a certain time slot. After the planning – voila – there is a schedule and the sessions start.

Any more questions? Feel free to ask at any time. I’ll just update this post with what you’d like to know in addition. This way this post might become a nice FAQ about Barcamps. Thanks for being a interactive participant!

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