Guild Activities

What Do We Have Today?

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Tech Talks

• Devs suggest topics on guild board
• You choose a subject you'd like to learn/talk about
• We agree on a date for presentation
• Guild staff will help you to prepare & rehearse the talk

• Promoting Wix engineering brand
• Keep up with crazy evolution of frontend development
• Help people grow both technically and personally

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Open Discussions

• Anyone can suggest a topic for open discussion (#fed-guild)
• We schedule (up to) 1h discussion on the topic
• Everyone is welcome to join and contribute
• We try to finish discussion with real action items

• Many people/companies - same problems
• Get to know each other
• Sharing is caring!

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Guild Tasks

• Guild tasks are categorized to Dev tools, Core libraries & Build tasks
• You choose tasks that interest you
• Create pull request & review with Infrastructure team

• You get to learn about infrastructure & promote changes that matter for you
• Learn from code review
• You always have something to do on weekend :P

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Guild Forums

• Cross-wix team that works on Wix Style
• Talk about issues with using it
• Plan roadmap
• Promote usage in company
• FIX BUGS!!!

• Team leaders meet every 2 weeks
• Discuss management & guild issues
• Promote guild agenda in companies

New Activities!

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Production review

• One third of guild meets each week (monday?)
• Every time someone else presents their project
• What does it do? How does it work?
• New relic & Anodot status
• Interesting performance issues or exceptions
• Post mortems

• Learn about what other teams do
• Share examples of how to maintain project
• Give your project some love

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Code review

• One third of guild meets each week (wednesday?)
• Every time someone else presents some code
• Can be a new feature or small product
• Can be an interesting refactor
• People discuss the code and give comments

• Help spread best practices
• Learn how to be constructive
• Be proud of your work
• Make your code more awesome

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Guild Week

• Every week 8 feds will spend their whole week working on guild tasks
• Thursdays will have only tech talks & open discussion
• Work will be done in pairs

• Less context switch, more complex tasks
• Get some pair programming exprience
• Collaborate on tasks with server guild
• Nice week in different atmosphere

Questions?

• Tech talks
• Open discussions
• Guild forums
• Production review
• Code review
• Guild tasks / Guild week