#teachingopensource Meeting

Meeting started by mchua at 14:05:36 UTC (full logs).

Meeting summary

    1. our tech guru is Luke "lewk/lmacken" Macken, Python ninja of TEH AWESUM (mchua, 14:06:10)
    2. http://teachingopensource.org/index.php/POSSE_RIT#Topic_Schedule (mchua, 14:06:20)
    3. We have 12 attendees confirmed, 2 more likely to come, for a total class size of 14; all are RIT profs except for 1. (mchua, 14:06:51)
    4. We have a few non-technical professors, mostly from the publishing/journalism/writing-related side of things, and willing to dive in. (mchua, 14:07:08)

  2. Monday (mchua, 14:11:21)
    1. AGREED: repeat of 2D sticky note skillz tracker (mchua, 14:18:34)

  3. Tuesday (ctyler, 14:18:41)
    1. AGREED: rose-thorn-bud wrap-up feedback on Friday (mchua, 14:18:43)
    2. ACTION: mchua to fork day pages (ctyler, 14:20:03)
    3. AGREED: our VCS of choice is git (mchua, 14:22:59)
    4. Getting source: make sure to teach tarball, RPM, versions as well (mchua, 14:23:42)
    5. remember: we have a textbook this time, if we want! (mchua, 14:23:50)
    6. Tuesday morning: tarballs, RPMs, fetching from git repo (vcs 101) (mchua, 14:24:30)
    7. AGREED: Publican will be the build system we teach to non-developers (mchua, 14:26:45)
    8. Tuesday afternoon: download code for a Sugar Activity, Chris talks about packaging (and spins/remixes: this is where lmacken brings up the RIT Remix if applicable), then download docbook xml for SoaS Creation Kit docs and Mel will walk through building them (mchua, 14:33:03)
    9. ACTION: mchua make sure dev tools (eclipse, docbook/python plugins) part of POSSE remix (mchua, 14:36:46)
    10. Tuesday's homework: burn yourself a working SoaS stick; if you want to do more, install whatever Activity you want to work on (mchua, 14:38:56)
    11. http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/SoaS_Activity_Criteria is the current draft, we'll solidify the criteria after May 18 (mchua, 14:42:17)

  4. Wednesday (ctyler, 14:54:48)
    1. Wednesday afternoon get into Activity/Doc mods, homework is to complete that, get into review on Thursday morning (mchua, 15:07:24)
    2. Wednesday morning: Chris leads bz overview, Mel leads Trac overview (mchua, 15:07:37)
    3. Wednesday afternoon part 1: liveusb-creator mod (mchua, 15:13:04)
    4. ACTION: lmacken prepare for liveusb-creator mod exercise (mchua, 15:13:13)
    5. Wednesday afternoon part 2: get started on your Activity mods (mchua, 15:13:41)
    6. Wednesday homework: finish your Activity mods (mchua, 15:13:50)
    7. Wednesday: learn how to make a patch (mchua, 15:14:34)
    8. ACTION: mchua fork pages and incorporate schedule changes so far (mchua, 15:17:26)
    9. we want smoeone who isn't Luke to drive the liveusb-creator stuff, goal is "how do you navigate unfamiliar giant blob o' code?" (mchua, 15:18:17)
    10. ACTION: mchua send out "finishing RIT POSSE curriculum Thursday at 1pm in #teachingopensource" email (mchua, 15:18:55)
    11. begin Thursday's meeting with a review of Wednesday afternoon, think about Wednesday in the meantime (mchua, 15:20:09)


Meeting ended at 15:20:24 UTC (full logs).

Action items

  1. mchua to fork day pages
  2. mchua make sure dev tools (eclipse, docbook/python plugins) part of POSSE remix
  3. lmacken prepare for liveusb-creator mod exercise
  4. mchua fork pages and incorporate schedule changes so far
  5. mchua send out "finishing RIT POSSE curriculum Thursday at 1pm in #teachingopensource" email


Action items, by person

  1. mchua
    1. mchua to fork day pages
    2. mchua make sure dev tools (eclipse, docbook/python plugins) part of POSSE remix
    3. mchua fork pages and incorporate schedule changes so far
    4. mchua send out "finishing RIT POSSE curriculum Thursday at 1pm in #teachingopensource" email


People present (lines said)

  1. mchua (154)
  2. ctyler (109)
  3. zodbot (4)


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