[Steering Committee] Fw: JetBrains JUG Leader Journal, Premier Issue

Thu Aug 23 06:40:40 PDT 2007

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Brian

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From: David Booth <jugs at jetbrains.com>
To: Brian <brian_s_sheldon at yahoo.com>
Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2007 8:28:14 AM
Subject: JetBrains JUG Leader Journal, Premier Issue

Hello Brian,

Welcome to the premier issue of the JUG Leader Journal, JetBrains´ official newsletter for JUG leaders.

After speaking with JUG leaders from Norway to New York, and Nevada to New Zealand, we´ve found that JUG leaders aroundthe globe deal with similar issues: organization, attendance, sponsorship, and arranging speakers and events. We´veteamed up with supporting JUG leaders to tackle some of these issues, as well as provide you with a whole bunch ofuseful information.

Looking for interesting ideas for your JUG meetings? We´ve got you covered. Every issue includes a Tips ´n´ Trickssection — with ideas submitted by JUG leaders from around the world — devoted to makingyour meetings unique, interesting,and more valuable for your members.

Is your JUG giving away free licenses of IntelliJ IDEA? We´re always happy to show our support with donations, and sincethe release of IntelliJ IDEA 7.0 Milestone 2 (which happened on August 13th) we´re able to give away IntelliJ IDEA 6.0licenses that come with a free upgrade to the full version of IDEA 7.0. So, if you´re already giving away licenses, feelfree to mention that the next licenses you give away come with a free upgrade: and if you´re not giving away theselicenses, see below for details. Also, all JUG Leaders can receive a license of IDEA for free, so let me know if you´dlike one :)

Finally, tell us if you´d prefer to receive this email in text or HTML format, so we can accommodate yourpreferences.

Contents in this Issue
A quick, 10-second JetQuestion 
Tips´n´Tricks for interesting meetings — We take a look at the OKC JUG for one idea on how to build community interaction and education into a 2-4 hour workshop. 
JetBrains JUG Support — free licenses of IntelliJ IDEA, speakers, and more

We hope you enjoy the premier issue and look forward to your feedback. If your JUG recently had an interesting meetingor workshop please let us know about it, and we´ll share your idea with the whole community. Write tojugs at jetbrains.com, or skype me at davidboothjetbrain.

Develop with pleasure,
Dave Booth
Editor-in-Chief, JUG Leader Journal
jugs at jetbrains.com

Contributors
Brett Schuchert: Senior Trainer, Mentor and Consultant, Object Mentor — OKCJUG
Brian Sheldon: Steering Committee — OKCJUG
Britt King — JetBrains

Part 1: A Quick JetQuestion
In which format would you prefer to receive this newsletter?
Please click one of the following, to send me a quick email about it:

I don´t care which format 
HTML 
Text 
I don´t want to receive the JUG Leader Newsletter

Part 2: JUG Tips ´n´ Tricks - Spotlight on Oklahoma City JUG (OKCJUG)
Brett Schuchert and Brian Sheldon of the OKCJUG shared with us a successful and interesting JUG meeting they hadrecently over Agile Requirements Exploration.

Here´s the original outline:
http://schuchert.wikispaces.com/Agile+Requirements+Exploration+Workshop

They began the workshop by splitting their JUG into groups of four. Each group picked one member to play the role ofproduct owner while the other three members played the role of developers. Brett then handed each group a two-pagedproblem statement — page one was for the whole group, but only the product owner was allowed to see page two. Here´s oneof the various problem statements they used:

ITunes® Competitor, page 1
Your company has recently acquired another company, which has designed yet another IPod® killer. The hardware will beavailable for preliminary shipment in 2 months but there is not really any kind of support for selling music. Yourcompany has agreements with several record labels to be able to sell DCMA´ed versions of songs but not much of a webpresence in this arena.
The marketing department of your company has decided to take these two assets, record label agreements and this new, asyet unnamed IPod® killer, and produce a customer experience similar to ITunes®.You have approximately 2,5-3 months to produce some kind of web presence that will make using this new device fun forits target audience.

ITunes® Competitor Product Owner, page 2
During initial discussions with the product owner, a few things may become clear (if asked):

Size (Gigs) and Style of the players 
The cost 
The target market 
Online Goals of the firm 
Possible Customizations 
Site requirements and goals 
Supported file formats 
External contract information 
They want their client to be able to rip music as well. They have licenses a product to do that for both the PC and the MAC.

In round 1, each group was given a fixed amount of time (9-minutes) to read the problem statement and brainstorm"interesting things the system could do that would be of value to a user." Nine minutes later, the groupsprovided twostories each in a round-robin fashion, one at a time. About his own group, Brian said, "my group came up with thefollowing: lyrics to songs as they play, VHF pop-up type videos, download music, upload music, sell music I wrote,parental controls," etc. "We then tried to fit one of these ideas into ´Person x wants to y because z´ — so ´amusicianwants to upload or sell his music so he can become rich and famous´ was one of our results."

This exercise has rounds 2,3, and a "user acceptance testing round", but it´s way too long for our quicknewsletter. If you´d like to know more,just send me an email at jugs at jetbrains.com, and I´ll send you the rest of it. If you´ve had an interesting meetingrecently, or would like to share your ideas & tips with us, let me know about it at jugs at jetbrains.com

Part 3: JUG Support - License Giveaway Program
We´re pleased to announce that the License Giveaway program has been extended until the end of December 2007. All activeJUGs who qualify can give away one personal license of IntelliJ IDEA to your speaker each month (as a reward for takinglle time to present to the community), and a personal license to a lucky member (as a reward for attending the event).If you´re already giving away licenses, you can continue to do so until December 2007. If your JUG is not giving awayfree Personal Licenses of IntelliJ IDEA yet, or if you are a JUG Leader and you don´t have a license of IDEA with thefree upgrade to 7.0, just send me an email: jugs at jetbrains.com and I´ll includeyou in the program. 

PS — All licenses that we give away from now until December 31st will include a free upgrade to IntelliJ IDEA 7.0: that´swhat you guys get for being on the edge of innovation!

PS2 (no copyright infringement here... no sir) — Everyone who is using IntelliJ IDEA 6.0, can use the IntelliJ 7.0Milestone releases for free until December 31st, 2007. For more info, check out the most recent release here:http://www.jetbrains.com/idea/nextversion/index.html?java_JUGnewsletter

New features include: Spring, Hibernate, and Eclipse support, and Milestone 2 comes with access to the Groovy and Grailsplugin, JetGroovy, as well as upgrades to pretty much everything IDEA is known for. Plus, it´s faster :)

Thanks for Reading!
It´s been a busy year for the JetBrains team and now summer is upon us: with it, dreams of vacations. I just got backfrom my trip rafting down the Ottawa River, so I hope you´ve got something great planned for yourself as well!

Develop With Pleasure,
The JetBrains Team
jugs at jetbrains.com
http://www.jetbrains.com/?java_jlj1

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