New subject: [Pharo-users] Re: Small workshop/hackathon today and tomorrow about Pharo and Agile Visualization.

1 May 2015

 Hi,

 It was a pretty good event. It went something like this:

 a. We starting by presenting ourselves and our motivations to be in the
 workshop/hackathon. We have people from IT technical support, political
 sciences, sociology, design and myself.

 b. Then we see the short video [1] "How the Internet will (one day)
 transform government" then we follow with a mental map of grafoscopio
 motivations and backgrounds [2] behind grafoscopio.

 c. We made after that some introduction to the Smalltalk syntax and the
 pharo 4 environment using the playground to execute code interactively,
 introducing objects, messages and making some practical examples from just
 unary and binary message in the playground with those message between
 objects, sending some from the playground to the transcript (and trying to
 go beyond the boring "hello world" :-P) and ending with those keyword and
 cascade message which install grafoscopio.

 d. We saw the interactive agile visualization book snipped draft[3] and ran
 it inside grafoscopio.

 The reception was very good. People liked the idea of interactive
 documentation with embedded visualization instead of "making apps" and it
 was a good bridge for persons with different backgrounds. I think it sparks
 their imagination about a lot of possibilities which are closer to them as
 "non-developers" (it happens also to myself).

 Tomorrow we will start a more detailed browsing of Agile Visualization and
 our Prof Stef partial tutorial as an interactive document[4] and will end
 with the combination the twitter scrapper (not made on Pharo) with data
 visualization on Roassal and making some changes on the visualization of
 this info.

 The only annoying thing was that cut/paste was not working uniformly on all
 Linux machines. On some they worked with Ctrl c / Ctrl c on some others it
 didn't work with Ctrl or Alt keys and we didn't know why.

 I will keep you posted, but was a really good experience.

 Cheers,

 Offray

 Links:
 ------

 [1]
 http://www.ted.com/talks/clay_shirky_how_the_internet_will_one_day_transform_government

 [2]
 http://mutabit.com/deltas/repos.fossil/grafoscopio/doc/tip/Docs/Es/Presentaciones/grafoscopio-mapa.png

 [3]
 http://mutabit.com/deltas/repos.fossil/grafoscopio/doc/tip/Docs/En/Books/AgileVisualization/agile-visualization.ston

 [4]
 http://mutabit.com/deltas/repos.fossil/grafoscopio/doc/tip/Docs/Es/Tutoriales/prof-stef-camiloh.ston

 El 01/05/15 a las 11:24, Alexandre Bergel escribió:

     Excellente!!
     Let us know how we can help

     Alexandre

         Le 1 mai 2015 à 10:29, Offray Vladimir Luna Cárdenas
         <offray@riseup.net <mailto:offray@riseup.net>> a écrit :

         Hi all,

         Today and tomorrow, a small group of persons will be doing a
         workshop/hackathon about Pharo and Agile Visualization at our local
         hackerspace. Details on the event are on:

         http://hackbo.co/hackboweb/eventos/evento/375

         I will be sharing teaching materials, first impressions and
         questions with you about the experience, while is happening and
         after that.

         Thanks,

         Offray
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