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\nAnother Open Spaces event<\/a> today. This time it was officially not organized by the ALT.NET community because some of the people behind the ALT.NET movement have had a bit of a disagreement (“the movement is stagnating”<\/a>, “don’t be so elitist”<\/a>) about what ALT.NET is and should be. And since Scott Bellware<\/a>, who’s on the “ALT.NET has degraded and we need a fresh start” side of the battle, joined our discussions, we were officially using his preferred name, which was “progressive software development”. In the discussions we kept slipping back to using ALT.NET since most of us, I think, never felt that we are part of any movement, and knew very little about the controversy. We just want to meet developers who think like we do and work with the same technologies, and really don’t care what they call it.\n<\/p>\n \nToday’s event was a bit different from the previous one. The presence of Scott Bellware (who’s not exactly a superstar in the developer world but still rather well-known in the .NET circles) changed the character and the focus of our discussions. Scott’s got a forceful personality (as revolutionaries and firebrands tend to) so some of the sessions veered from discussion into lecture. But they were good lectures, inspiring and interesting. A lot of talk about the meaning of quality, and what is needed to change the world of software development to focus more on quality and learning. I came home with a whole reading list about lean thinking and lean development, and a renewed desire to improve myself and my work. I’ve sort of relaxed for the last half-year and stagnated, not learned as much as I could. Time to pick up the pace again.\n<\/p>\n