Guilds: growing and sharing knowledge

This second group of “Video Production” enthusiasts followed a similar path to the other guild. During the meetings, all stages of the production process were explored: from planning and scriptwriting in pre-production to filming in production, using technical equipment for image, sound, and lighting. In post-production, the team focused on professional editing, enhancing the videos with special effects, audio editing, and music using Movavi software.

All team members acquired fundamental skills to work independently on video projects. During the guild conference at the camp on October 2, a training video on ISO 27001 regulations was presented, in which guild participants recreated three potentially dangerous office situations that violated the regulation. For the unconference at the Intré Camp on October 2, the guild hosted a practical workshop on creating and editing a video using Movavi.

During this philosophical guild, participants followed a journey guided by lecturer Elisa Belotti, exploring the views of great thinkers such as Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Kant, Schopenhauer, Hegel, Heidegger, and Popper. They tackled complex topics such as science, ethics, freedom, and bioethics.

Each meeting focused on dialectical discussions among participants, aiming to develop critical thinking and argumentative skills. The journey concluded with a debate, prepared in August, on the topic: “Is democracy still the best form of government?”, in which two teams defended opposing positions.

The same debate on democracy was later presented as an unconference session during the company camp, held on October 2 at the Diocesan Museum of Brescia.

This second iteration of the Guild has continued the work started by the previous one in the first quarter, developing a Flutter application to manage desk reservations and attendance tracking in the office. In addition to the existing features (authentication, attendance tracking, and reporting), a new functionality has been introduced, allowing users to book desks through a dynamic SVG map, also built in Flutter. The team has also adapted the mobile version’s pages to be accessible via a browser, optimizing the code to ensure compatibility with both web and mobile environments.

The Guild will continue with a third session, aiming to:

• complete the web adaptation of the application;
• verify the correct functioning of operational workflows (such as booking a desk);
• add an administration panel for desk management.

The Guild was created with the goal of acquiring essential skills for using various service providers for application hosting.

During the meetings, participants practiced with Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud Platform, and Microsoft Azure to learn how to manage different environments, such as testing and production, for deploying and updating an application (the repository is available internally).

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With this guild, the development of a Flutter application began for managing desk bookings and recording office attendance.

Throughout the meetings, the group gained various insights:

• best practices for developing efficient and responsive Flutter applications;
• the key steps for publishing an app in stores (Google Play Store and Apple App Store);
• understanding the technical and administrative requirements for publication.

This first version of the application includes essential features such as authentication, attendance registration, and reporting. The i3Presence project will continue next quarter with another guild.

The guild aimed to learn how to design and implement an online game that is short, fun, and suitable for team-building events.

Team members, both designers and developers, used their UX/UI and programming knowledge to create a project in React and C#.

The game “Guess it!”, available internally, involves interaction where one person must make others guess what they’re thinking through a chat, providing a series of hints represented by fun icons. The web app includes a login form and a general leaderboard.

A guild dedicated to studying Java using the book “OCP Oracle Certified Professional Java SE 17 Developer: Exam 1Z0-829“, which thoroughly covers the language from basic concepts (operators, types, etc.) to more complex topics like Functional Interfaces and Streams.

Each chapter of the book includes exercises, so during each meeting, the group dedicated part of the time to theoretical study and the remaining time to solving exercises.

The return of the guild dedicated to the famous fantasy role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons, first organized in the third quarter of 2022.

Participants were divided into two groups (Monza and Seriate) to experience different adventures in each guild session.

The activity required effort to achieve hidden individual objectives and common goals unknown in advance, encouraging improvisation skills and testing agile abilities in responding to change, such as:

• learning to work together despite the diversity of team members;
• providing valuable and appropriate feedback;
• adopting the Scrum framework for campaign creation, meaning story development. Based on collected feedback, the Dungeon Master refined the campaign according to new specifications.

A Guild dedicated to the world of music.

The band members (bass, vocals, vocals, guitar, guitar, drums) spent hours in the rehearsal room, working both individually and as a group to improve:

• listening skills;
• musical knowledge;
• non-verbal listening to stay synchronized.

At the Intré Camp on June 24-25, the band performed, presenting a mix of musical pieces studied during this Guild.

One year later, the Guild focused on “Artificial Intelligence and its impact on software development work” returns.

The group started from ChatDev, a public project on GitHub, extending the experiment in an agile context. The STAAS (Scrum Team As A Service) project consists of three specialized agents with their own roles and personalities (PO, DEV, and QA) collaborating to create a software product from a textual intent. Tests and the process leading to a built output in a Docker image are also included.

The project repository is available on the company’s GitLab.