

I attended Refresh Savannah last night. I wasn’t exactly sure what to expect but Rad Harrell from Talent Soup told me I should check it out, so I did. Refresh Savannah is,
” …a community of web designers, developers, and other new media professionals working together to refresh the creative, technical, and professional aspects of their trades in the Savannah area.” -quote courtesy of www.refreshsavannah.com
We all went around telling everybody what we did. It went like this. “Hi, I’m so and so, I’m a graphic designer”, “Hi, I’m so and so, I’m a product software engineer specializing in some absurdly complicated computer thing”, “Hi, I’m James, I roast coffee”.
The topic of the night was on agile and the death of waterfall or something like that. As the talk started, I thought This is all well above and beyond anything I’ll ever hope to understand. But surprisingly, it wasn’t. The talk continued on to something called SCRUM. SCRUM is basically a system of managing product development. Listening to how it was described, I could begin to see how it could be utilized very easily outside of the software engineering world. Everything from Restaurant management, to business development, to running a church. It was very cool.
All that to say, I had a thoroughly enjoyable time attending. Thanks to Rad for telling me about it. Thanks to Thincspace for hosting, and thanks to Kevin Lawver for starting Refresh here in Savannah!
A little video from my time in Guatemala. This is a coffee drying patio where coffee is spread out to … dry. At this point in the process, the coffee cherry has been picked and the mucilage has been removed. The seed (bean) is then set out to dry with the farmers periodically walking through and turning the beans to speed up the process. The outer husk (pergamino) is still on the bean, which is why it has a hay-like color to it. The pergamino is removed after the beans have fully dried.
Or not figuring this out. Supposedly I have this set up to post directly to our facebook page when I post here. But it hasn’t done that yet. Hmmm.
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