Lightning talk about coding dojo experience in Belo Horizonte, Brazil and other local software developers community initiatives.

1. Coding Dojo
5 minutes about coding dojos and
local communities
Gustavo Veloso
@gjmveloso

2. Who?
 Passionate software developer and
entrepreneurship culture lover
 Working as Product Manager @ DeskMetrics
 Part of Start-Up Chile since Jan, 2012
 Brazilian who are in love with Chile

3. My previous experience with
Coding Dojos

4. Before talking about dojos...
 In Brazil we have the #horaextra meetings
 Present in São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Belo Horizonte, João
Pessoa, etc.
 It's already a tradition, after a major tech event
we set up a special #horaextra wherever we are.
 Descentralized and without formal leaders
 Small Acts Manifesto
 http://smallactsmanifesto.org

5. … and when social meets code
 DevIsland
 Annual software developers event in Belo Horizonte
 DevDojos
+

6. My experience with Coding Dojos
 As programming skills acquisition should be a
continuous process, Dojos must be
arranged frequently
 Consistency over intensity
 Support and leverage the local community
of software developers

7. Characteristics
 Non competitive environment
 All knowledge levels are more than
welcome
 Safe to try new ideas
 Fun

9. Ratori Kata
 The challenge is solved by a pair
 Pilot and co-pilot (pair programming)
 All attendees are invited to help

10. Ratori Kata
 Every pair have 5~7 minutes to program
 TDD and baby steps are mandatory
 Every cycle, the pilot go back to the audience,
the co-pilot assumes the pilot role and
another attendee comes co-pilot
 Iterate

11. Kake Kata
 The audience are split in groups, which one solving a
different problem
 Closed or open rotation (inside groups only or not)
 The same timing and rotating characteristics and
mandatory agile practices
 Retrospective should be do with all groups together
 Alternative to deal with a bigger audience
 (> 20)

12. Test Driven Development
 Test should be did before the real
implementation
 Automated tests
 XUnit Red
Green
Refactor

13. Final Thoughts
 Santiago and Chile are trully amazing and the tech
companies ecosystem is growing fast
 Huevapi is already an amazing community as well as I could
see talking with Agustin for just a few minutes ;)
 Start-Up Chile, IncubaUC and other initiatives will leverage
local software community. We need to be ready!
 Software is eating the world!
 http://on.wsj.com/eatingtheworld

14. ¡Gracias!
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