Technical Skills Share Group
Now meeting at the Acton Library each Wednesday except the 4th Wednesday when the group meets in Chelmsford

See Agenda for next meeting below

The Technical Skills Share Group meets in the Chelmsford Library's McCarthy Meeting Room on the 4th Wednesday of each month from 1:30 p.m. to 5:45 p.m. The group meets at the Acton Memorial Library on all other Wednesdays of the month. The group is led by volunteers who research and lead technical projects. The goals of the group are to help high tech professionals in job transition share their skills and impart knowledge to others. This helps participants and members to be better prepared for technical interviews.

There are various technology subgroups. These help people migrate from one technology area to another; frequently there are people attending multiple subgroup events. We have some young members who are recent college graduates who have never gone through the SDLC (Software Development Life Cycle) or other product development process so they are learning the techniques that are used in different companies for SW or HW release with a resume project we are currently working on.

The Technical Skills Share group has been meeting since the Spring of 2009. The technology training covered by the group includes: C/C++, VBA, Java, C#, Perl, Computer networking - TCP/IP, MS Access, OOD, UML, DSP, Real Time Operating Systems, Cloud computing, Six Sigma, Source control, subversion etc. Technical presentations are led by participants, as well as by external speakers, who are experts in their area.

Independently, the group is also working on a product development effort that helps members learn, upgrade and sharpen their "product development" skills. All the work is led by the volunteers who research and lead the project on a weekly basis.

Every week, the first session (1:30-3:30 p.m.) includes an open discussion about the product development effort and reports on the progress each week. The second session (4:00-5:45 p.m.) is the technical presentation by a speaker.

As an added benefit the sessions provide networking between high technology professionals.

The group has had remote sessions which allow participants to attend events online remotely from their homes using DIMDIM technology. The group is still working on improving this service, and it is not widely publicized yet.

For more information about the group, please contact: skillsshareATyahooDOTcom

The group activities are free and open to the public.

Technical Skills Share Group Meeting Agenda:

Technical Skills Share Group Meeting:
When: 1:30pm to 6:00pm
Where: Acton Memorial Library, Meeting Rooms A & B **

http://www.actonmemoriallibrary.org/LocationandHours.htm

Wednesday, February 1st, 2012 Agenda:

1:30 to 1:50pm, Intros
1:50 to 2:05pm Acton Networkers update (Jack/Andy) & designate next meeting representative
2:05 to 2:20pm Wiki maintenance (Lucy)

Java (Android) Project agenda:
2:30 to 3:30pm, Event Boss/Android Testing (all attending subgroups) -- review outstanding ticket list; and testing status.
3:30 to 3:50pm, Discuss outstanding Phase II action items (Lucy)
1. Process for new development
2. Requirements doc
3. Assignments/Volunteers

New Project Agenda:
4:00 to 5:00pm, Plan next project and associated action items (Andy).
1. Status of email to solicit ideas from a wider group;
2. Summarization of what ideas have been talked about so far
3. Continue discussion of what people have found from research since last meeting. Establish action items moving forward.
4. Consideration of short-term mini-projects to aid in understanding of what’s needed to take on a larger web development project (using HTML5). Establish action items moving forward.

5:00 to 5:15pm, Discuss next week's agenda items (Lucy/Andy). (document discussion to give to Scott if he is not here)
5:15 to 5:45pm, Group activity; each subgroup can meet and make further progress.

Our next meeting will be Wednesday, February 8th at the Acton Memorial Library; no speaker is planned.

**Meetings are every Wednesday at Acton Memorial Library, except for the 4th Wednesday of each month when the meeting is held at Chelmsford Public Library. Generally we plan to have speakers at the Chelmsford meetings.

We would like to thank:
-Acton Memorial Library for the use of their facilities, A/V, and other items.
-Chelmsford Public Library for use of facilities (as above) on the 4th Wednesday of each month.
-SourceHosting.net for outsourced source control and bug tracking services
For further information about the group please contact: lmhamnett@gmail.com