#teachingopensource Meeting
Meeting started by mchua at 19:57:46 UTC
(full logs).
Meeting summary
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- http://teachingopensource.org/index.php/POSSE_2009#Topic_Schedule
(mchua,
19:59:05)
- ACTION: mchua check
with gregdek on whether we're providing VMs from cloud-magic-fu or
otherwise, or whether we'll have to find a way to spin up stuff
locally (mchua,
20:04:38)
- IDEA: get attendees usb
sticks pre-flashed with SoaS (mchua,
20:20:27)
- Monday (mchua, 20:26:35)
- Goal: Learn how to use the communication tools
the community uses. (mchua,
20:28:33)
- accounts to create: SL trac, gitorious, FAS,
RHBZ, aslo, freenode nick registration, SL wiki (mchua,
20:31:01)
- each attendee should be set up with a
blog (mchua,
20:33:51)
- ACTION: mchua make
account-creation instructions and send them out beforehand so
professors can arrive with accounts already made (and then just
learn to use them) (mchua,
20:34:13)
- Tuesday (mchua, 20:38:34)
- Goal: Learn how to find what code is available,
get that code, and begin modifying it (mchua,
20:40:33)
- tools: git, some sort of editor/IDE
(mchua,
20:40:59)
- social: asking questions and finding people on
IRC, mailing lists, wikis - scoping a project (mchua,
20:41:15)
- IDEA: Goal for the
week: get an Activity that isn't included in SoaS, up to standards
and included in SoaS. (mchua,
20:46:52)
- IDEA: RPM packaging
will be the extra-evening-bonus-sessions, in the evenings in the
hotel lobby (mchua,
20:47:23)
- ACTION: mchua
finalize SoaS inclusion criteria, get general community consensus on
them for v.4.0 (mchua,
20:47:47)
- ACTION: sdziallas
gear up for "how to package Activities" sessions (make resources,
etc.) (mchua,
20:48:15)
- AGREED: no jhbuild!
but tell them what it is and how to learn more if they're interested
after POSSE week. (mchua,
20:50:51)
- IDEA: SoaS Activity
reviews can be done by Sebastian, Peter, and Mel for v.4.0 (for
inclusion in SoaS, separate from packaging in Fedora - though that's
one of the criteria) (mchua,
20:53:42)
- Activity: pick an Activity (mchua,
20:54:36)
- Activity: learn about inclusion criteria
(mchua,
20:54:43)
- Activity: use stick to download and install
Activity from aslo to test it (mchua,
20:54:58)
- make sure we have "intro to SoaS" time on
Monday (for basic Sugar usage) (mchua,
20:55:30)
- ACTION: mchua make
sure all attendees have a computer that can boot a stick (bring
extra netbooks if possible) (mchua,
20:55:49)
- Activity: intro to git/gitorious (check out
Activity code) (mchua,
20:57:28)
- Activity: python 101 (mchua,
20:57:38)
- Activity: modifying an Activity (perhaps
changing a toolbar icon temporarily) - tools to learn: some IDE,
code search tools/strategies like ack/grep (mchua,
20:58:25)
- Activity: finding active bugs for an Activity -
tools to learn: trac (mchua,
20:58:43)
- make sure attendees know what RPM packaging is
and how they could learn it (evening sessions, etc) but it will
*not* be part of the day's curriculum (mchua,
21:03:40)
- packaging party (optional) Tuesday night
(mchua,
21:05:48)
- Wednesday (mchua, 21:05:51)
- Activity: Answer questions from the previous
day, ask people who in the community they've been engaging
with (mchua,
21:08:18)
- Activity: working with bug reports - how to
read them, how to write them, how to get your bug fixed (mchua,
21:08:34)
- Activity: creating and submitting
patches (mchua,
21:08:47)
- Activity: merge requests - basically, "getting
your code upstream" (mchua,
21:09:17)
- Bug Reports:
http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/BugSquad/Bug_Report (sdziallas,
21:09:29)
- Activity: "talking about the work you're doing"
- everyone should be blogging, posting to lists, etc (mchua,
21:09:30)
- to be continued tomorrow - we left off partway
through Wednesday's curriculum (mchua,
21:57:48)
Meeting ended at 21:57:51 UTC
(full logs).
Action items
- mchua check with gregdek on whether we're providing VMs from cloud-magic-fu or otherwise, or whether we'll have to find a way to spin up stuff locally
- mchua make account-creation instructions and send them out beforehand so professors can arrive with accounts already made (and then just learn to use them)
- mchua finalize SoaS inclusion criteria, get general community consensus on them for v.4.0
- sdziallas gear up for "how to package Activities" sessions (make resources, etc.)
- mchua make sure all attendees have a computer that can boot a stick (bring extra netbooks if possible)
Action items, by person
- mchua
- mchua check with gregdek on whether we're providing VMs from cloud-magic-fu or otherwise, or whether we'll have to find a way to spin up stuff locally
- mchua make account-creation instructions and send them out beforehand so professors can arrive with accounts already made (and then just learn to use them)
- mchua finalize SoaS inclusion criteria, get general community consensus on them for v.4.0
- mchua make sure all attendees have a computer that can boot a stick (bring extra netbooks if possible)
- sdziallas
- sdziallas gear up for "how to package Activities" sessions (make resources, etc.)
People present (lines said)
- mchua (151)
- sdziallas (97)
- zodbot (4)
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