#teachingopensource Meeting

Meeting started by mchua at 11:12:46 UTC (full logs).

Meeting summary

  1. IRC/wiki lab exercise (mchua, 11:13:02)
    1. http://teachingopensource.org/index.php/POSSE_South_Africa#Monday_deliverables (mchua, 11:13:04)
    2. http://teachingopensource.org/index.php/User:Jadudm (mchua, 11:13:55)
    3. http://teachingopensource.org/index.php/User:Jwildeboer (mchua, 11:14:40)
    4. http://teachingopensource.org/index.php/User:Kpalmer (mchua, 11:14:54)
    5. http://teachingopensource.org/index.php/User:Fardad (mchua, 11:14:59)
    6. http://teachingopensource.org/index.php/User:Kwurst (mchua, 11:15:05)
    7. http://teachingopensource.org/index.php?title=User:Kpalmer&action=edit (mchua, 11:19:06)
    8. http://teachingopensource.org/index.php/Special:Contributions/Mchua (mchua, 11:22:56)
    9. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Mchua (mchua, 11:23:01)
    10. http://fedoraproject.org/w/index.php?title=FAmSCo_report_2010-07&diff=prev&oldid=192055 (mchua, 11:23:22)
    11. You can look at an individual's contributions, as well as what one of their edits did. (mchua, 11:23:49)
    12. You can also look at the history of an individual page. (mchua, 11:24:05)
    13. https://fedoraproject.org/w/index.php?title=FAmSCo_report_2010-07&action=history (mchua, 11:24:12)
    14. http://http://teachingopensource.org/index.php/User:Gruntus (gruntus, 11:25:43)
    15. http://teachingopensource.org/index.php/User:Michaelgraaf (michaelgraaf, 11:32:26)
    16. http://teachingopensource.org/index.php?title=User:Boniface (boniface, 11:32:51)
    17. http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Formatting (mchua, 11:49:07)
    18. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:How_to_edit_a_page (mchua, 11:49:13)
    19. http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMDOC/Cheatsheet (mchua, 11:49:27)
    20. http://teachingopensource.org/index.php/Special:Contributions/Mchua (mchua, 11:55:34)
    21. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Mchua (mchua, 11:55:53)
    22. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netiquette (jwildeboer, 12:07:54)
    23. http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1855 (jwildeboer, 12:08:03)
    24. Asynchronous and synchronous communication tools are *both* important. (mchua, 12:17:11)
    25. Don't top-post - start your reply *under* the email you're quoting, not above. (mchua, 12:19:09)
    26. http://planet.fedoraproject.org (mchua, 12:22:50)
    27. http://zenit.senecac.on.ca/~chris.tyler/planet/ (mchua, 12:23:15)
    28. http://teachingopensource.org/index.php/Planet (mchua, 12:23:26)
    29. http://www.planetplanet.org/ (jwildeboer, 12:24:24)
    30. Hackergotchis are pictures of people who post on a Planet, so people can put faces to names. (mchua, 12:25:41)
    31. If you want a hackergotchi, email Pierros your picture. (mchua, 12:25:58)

  2. search strategies (mchua, 12:31:09)
    1. Google is your friend. (mchua, 12:31:14)
    2. Look at mailing list archives, meeting (IRC) logs, wiki pages for a project. (mchua, 12:31:28)
    3. When you ask people for further info, point them to the things you've already found and tell them what you've already looked at. (mchua, 12:31:54)
    4. Oftentimes, asking "where should I ask this question?" will point you to the right place. (mchua, 12:32:13)
    5. Asking in the right place is just as important as asking the right question! (mchua, 12:32:58)

  3. Mission (mchua, 12:33:03)
    1. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Overview (mchua, 12:33:07)
    2. "The mission is the community." (mchua, 12:33:16)
    3. Communities of Practice - people coming together because they work on/towards the same, or similar, things. (mchua, 12:33:37)

  4. Anatomy of a FOSS project (mchua, 12:38:04)
    1. this means 2 things - first, what's the governance model? (mchua, 12:38:10)
    2. second, how's the actual artifact structured? (mchua, 12:38:17)

  5. asking good questions (mchua, 12:41:24)
    1. * What doesn't work? (mchua, 12:41:57)
    2. * What do you want to happen? (mchua, 12:42:01)
    3. * Prove to me that it doesn't work. (mchua, 12:42:11)
    4. * What have you tried so far and what has happened? (mchua, 12:42:25)

  6. Feedback round (mchua, 12:45:27)
    1. Answer 2 questions: (mchua, 12:45:32)
    2. * Are we going in the right direction? (mchua, 12:45:37)
    3. * Is it different from what you expected? (mchua, 12:45:44)
    4. Jan: Yes, we're going in the right direction. This is chaotic, and it will get worse, but I think we're going to have a good time together. (mchua, 12:46:08)
    5. Pierros: Yes, we're going in the right direction. I was prepared to deal with crazy things this week, watch people learning how to learn. (mchua, 12:47:04)
    6. Michael A: I think we're on the right track, We got exposed to tools we can use later on, while teaching. Are we getting productively lost? Oh yeah. (mchua, 12:48:10)
    7. Boniface: We're going in the right direction. It's surprising how many ways you can use these tools to interact with students, i'm used to lecturing. (mchua, 12:48:59)
    8. Michael G: We're in the right direction, At the abstract level this is what I expected, but the details are unexpected. (mchua, 12:49:58)
    9. Grant: Laziness - I will say what everyone else did! Steep learning curve. (mchua, 12:52:42)

  7. closing (mchua, 12:59:10)
    1. We'll be on this IRC channel tonight, feel free to come back and ask questions. (mchua, 12:59:40)
    2. Please email your first blog posts to the mailing list. (mchua, 12:59:57)


Meeting ended at 13:00:18 UTC (full logs).

Action items

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People present (lines said)

  1. mchua (112)
  2. liknus (38)
  3. jwildeboer (20)
  4. micadeyeye (11)
  5. gruntus (6)
  6. boniface (4)
  7. michaelgraaf (4)
  8. zodbot (2)


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