A Toastmasters-inspired speech timer for online scrum meetings

Qolor Tyme

This is a Toastmasters-inspired speech timer for use during online daily scrum meeting updates.

Qolor Tyme screenshot

It is based on PyQt, which is Python API for Qt (pronounced “cute”) cross-platform GUI framework, hence the name Qolor Tyme.

I honestly don’t know why they called it PyQt instead of QtPy, which would have made it “cutie-pie” ¯_(ツ)_/¯

Installation

Use pip:

pip install qolor-tyme

Running

Run it as the package. It accepts an optional timeout interval (default is 90 seconds per Agile guidelines)

python -m qolor_tyme 120

This will configure it for 2 minutes timeout. Then, twenty seconds before the timeout the color will change to yellow, five seconds before the timeout it will change to red,

 

 

 

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