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> On Dec 29, 2014, at 5:45 PM, Devananda van der Veen <devananda.vdv at gmail.com> wrote:
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> I'm sending the details of the midcycle in a separate email. Before you reply that you won't be able to make it, I'd like to share some thoughts / concerns.
> 
> In the last few weeks, several people who I previously thought would attend told me that they can't. By my informal count, it looks like we will have at most 5 of our 10 core reviewers in attendance. I don't think we should cancel based on that, but it does mean that we need to set our expectations accordingly.
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> Assuming that we will be lacking about half the core team, I think it will be more practical as a focused sprint, rather than a planning & design meeting. While that's a break from precedent, planning should be happening via the spec review process *anyway*. Also, we already have a larger back log of specs and work than we had this time last cycle, but with the same size review team. Rather than adding to our backlog, I would like us to use this gathering to burn through some specs and land some code.
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> That being said, I'd also like to put forth this idea: if we had a second gathering (with the same focus on writing code) the following week (let's say, Feb 11 - 13) in the SF Bay area -- who would attend? Would we be able to get the "other half" of the core team together and get more work done? Is this a good idea?

I could (and likely would) attend the Bay area one.

-Dave