Thanks to everyone who showed up at our last meeting. Please visit us at the regular time (3rd Wednesday), will be this Wednesday, August 15th at 6:30 PM.

Bring your coworkers! Pass this link around, invite anyone who would benefit from attending this group.

We’re trying to better plan food this time, but we need to know how many people are going to attend.

Please RSVP to me directly (andrew@clockwork.net), and let me know if you have any dietary restrictions.

Details:

What:

• Hunt Bugs Club

When:

• Wednesday, August 15
• 6:30 PM

Where:

• Clockwork
  1501 East Hennepin Ave
  Minneapolis, MN 55414
  http://g.co/maps/eu9tt

Agenda:

• Bring a topic to discuss.

If you have something you want to talk about, bring it with, we’ll fit you in. Just show up.

We had a small group tonight and we decided to talk about more meta topics. here are some quick notes:

Pick a topic for a meeting
Web QA Manifesto
- What does Web QA encompass
- What does Web QA do
- What does it mean to be a web qa
- why not just sqa
Q&A sessions added to the itinerary
- What’s your biggest challenge
- Discuss with timelimit (tbd) after lightning talks
- Undiscussed topics will go first on the google groups
- Discussed topics will get put up with notes
- Topics can become blog posts on huntbugs.com
The popcorn analogy (alex)
Definition of a presentation
- Context of a presentation being somehow presentable from a QA perspective
Tips on keeping discussions in a non-NDA-required context

Location: Clockwork Headquarters

Notes:

Announcements:
- Udacity Software Testing Course (253)
- International Software Testing conference (UofM)
- Job Opportunities
- Local development company looking to hire tester (update site when available)

Lightning Talks:
- Dez: Communication with departments during deadline pressure
- Jason Hsu: Upgrade Your Cereal Android App Demonstration

Discussions:
- Android Apps vs. iOS app development and testing difficulties

Thanks to everyone who showed up at our last meeting. Please visit us at the regular time (3rd Wednesday), will be this Wednesday, June 20th at 7 PM.

Bring your coworkers! Pass this email around, invite anyone who would benefit from attending this group.

We’re trying to better plan food this time, but we need to know how many people are going to attend.

Please RSVP to me directly (andrew@clockwork.net), and let me know if you have any dietary restrictions.

Details:

What:

• Hunt Bugs Club

When:

• Wednesday, June 20
• 7 PM

Where:

• Clockwork
  1501 East Hennepin Ave
  Minneapolis, MN 55414
  http://g.co/maps/eu9tt

Agenda:

• We’ll do some lightning talks. Bring a topic to discuss.

More here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lightning_talk

If you have something you want to talk about, bring it with, we’ll fit you in. Just show up.

First of all, thank you for joining us last night for the first meetup of the Hunt Bugs Club, and hopefully the last fully meta meeting about future meetings.

We decided to have the group meet on the 3rd Wednesday of each month starting on May 16, 2012. This has been submitted to the Tech.MN calendar.

Here’s the rundown of what we covered:

Venue: Clockwork Active Media Systems
Time: 7pm – 8:30pm

Agenda

• Networking
• Introductions
• Brainstorming
• Scheduling
• Topics
• Presentations
• Content

Networking / Introductions

There were 11 attendees to the initial Hunt Bugs Club meeting. Attendees were from:

• Clockwork
• IB
• Digital River
• The Nerdery
• Quantum Retail
• Code42
• swiftlinux

Brainstorming

Scheduling

Attendee availability was evaluated, and Wednesday was chosen as the day of the week going forward to meet, with a frequency of once a month. The specific Wednesday will be established, and we will update the Tech.mn calendar.

Topics

Potential topics for content, such as ‘Lightning Talks’ were discussed. These topics will be turned into tags on the Hunt Bugs Club website. Thirty-five topics in total were recorded. From automated testing, browser compatibility to inter-department communication and release process management.

Presentations

For the next meeting, several short presentations will be made based on the listed topics. Presenters and the topics they volunteered for:

Leaf – Bookmarklets
Breon – Run Test Run
Dez – Inter-department Communication
Countryman – how to write a good bug
Adam – QA in an agile environment

Content

The opportunity to write for huntbugs.com was presented, and attendees were encouraged to follow up with Dez if there is interest in writing for the site.

Follow Up Tasks

I’ve created the Google Group and invited those that included their email and marked “Yes” on the Mailing List option. I also created a category on this site for most of the topics that were brainstormed last night.

We were pleased to be able to participate in The Nerdery’s first User Group Fair during the Overnight Website Challenge.

We met some people interested in what we were about and hopefully we were able to convey our purpose and intent well enough.

We look forward to any future user group fairs or places that we can get the name & purpose out as well as bringing together web testers in the area.

photo courtesy: Nerdery Overnight Website Challenge

We have scheduled our first meeting for April 3, 2012 hosted by Clockwork Active Media Systems. Being that this is our first meetup for this group we’ll have plenty of things to talk about and people to meet.

Google Maps link

Some possible items for discussion:

• topics
• content authoring
• scheduling
• other ideas that are brought up that night

Facebook Event link

Thank you for stopping by. We’re a group out of the Twin Cities that is focused on topics concerning web application testing and mobile application testing.

While we agree that software testing has a lot of consistencies with web application testing there are important differences to consider. That’s what this club* is meant for. To explore the differences and to talk about the issues that affect our jobs.

*Club/Community/Hangout/Reference/Etc