PSU Sprints

Ok this is a smidge over due but here is my own personal sprint summary for the sprints following the Plone Symposium East 2008.
When I agreed to help organize a doc sprint for PSU, I didn't realize how many sprint topics they had scheduled for this event. I have to tip my hat to a very ambitious schedule. All this sprinting in addition to a conference is bound to wear out anyone. I hope all the Weblion folks are getting their much earned rest this week. I personally want to thank Mike and Christian for taking care of logistics, feeding us, and providing us with anything a sprinter could need. Those are the hardest parts of organizing a sprint and it was a relief to not worry about those details.
I had some issues sorting out some of the tasks from the Plone strategic planning summit that happened earlier this year. In my infinite organizational wisdom I decided these must be important and we should probably work on them. Once I arrived at the sprint I got to digging and realized that several of these tasks required a lot more discussion between the contributors on our doc team. After pouting for a bit, thinking we now had nothing to work on, Joel straightened me out and we took a different direction. I hashed out some ideas for what I'm calling doc team admin stuff on my own and the rest of the sprinters made great progress on their own tasks.
I'm not as satisfied with this sprint as I was with the doc com sprint but that sprint was so much bigger and longer and had more people so I really shouldn't compare at all. Again, Joel set me straight and made me realize that even just getting one or two people started on the doc team is a success. Once again, confirmation that I hold my own personal standards too high. My lessons learned: plan better and always have a back up plan. It worked best at doc com sprint where I contacted everyone before hand and made sure they had stuff to work on before we even arrived. I think that should be a standard sprint operating procedure for all future doc sprints.
But enough of this self indulgent crap. It was a good sprint! We had a great time! I've said it once and I'll keep on saying it, the best part about Plone is the community. There is nothing better than sitting in a room full of plonistas working away and making cracks at each other.