Wednesday 26 February 2014

Events are now grouped into a series on Lanyrd!

http://lanyrd.com/series/gibraltartg/

should be a lot easier to manage & communicate to gatherers...

Thursday 6 February 2014

Event #2 is booked!

Go on, get yourself signed up for the 2nd Gibraltar Tester Gathering

Don't forget to submit your ideas as well!


We want your ideas!

We have set up a suggestion box for potential gatherers to submit ideas they'd either like to listen to or present themselves.
  • Do you have something you need to get off your chest?
  • Have you read or heard something in the testing community you'd like to discuss or know more about?
  • Have you completed an interesting project recently that people might want to hear about?
  • Want a practice run of your conference proposal for feedback?
  • Is there a particular game you want to play on the simulators?
Let us know - the Gathering can only grow if we feed it ideas!

Its free, takes seconds & completely anonymous.

Suggestion box

Wednesday 5 February 2014

GibTest #1

The 1st Gibraltar Tester Gathering got underway with 10 enthusiastic Testers, Managers, Developers, Marketing & Project Management gatherers!

Gav Winter (@jedi_tester) kicked off proceedings with great talk on what Tester Gatherings are all about.

This gave the gatherers a great idea about what to expect from the gatherings & what they might be able to contribute.

Slides from Gavs talk can be found here.

The tone was set & the crowd loosened for some formalities from Duncan Nisbet (@duncnisbet).

Through the power of a futurespective, the gatherers got a chance to have their say in what & how the Gibraltar Tester Gathering could become.

The ideas were free flowing & numerous - it seems that these gatherers know what they want & how to get it.

This was the output from the futurespective:



After a short beer reprieve, we moved onto the slightly more dull topic of what we didn't want the gathering to become. These will help form the ground rules to the gathering & empower the gatherers to challenge a situation which may breach the ground rules.

Again, some great ideas came in, some of which were duplicates (great minds & all that...) - this is what we got for starters (ground rules will be published on a separate page):


Finally, with the formalities over it was time for the simulators & the food. So. Much. Food. Let it be known that the Golf Box does not do small portions! This is HALF of the food for 10 people:


(We hardly made a dint in that pile of sausages & jackets)

This last section of the evening was a chance to get to know each other & discuss the futurespective & the fledging ground rules.

Overall, a great night had by all (for some the night lasted longer than for the others ;-)) with some ideas for talks for future gatherings already being planned!

Roll on the 2nd event - we hope to see you there!

Enjoying the food, footy & light banter

The racing didn't get too competitive...