=========================== #teachingopensource Meeting =========================== Meeting started by mchua at 19:57:46 UTC. The full logs are available at http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/teachingopensource/2010-04-21/posse_worcester_curriculum_brainstorming.2010-04-21-19.57.log.html . Meeting summary --------------- * LINK: 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) * LINK: 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. 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.) * **UNASSIGNED** * (none) People Present (lines said) --------------------------- * mchua (151) * sdziallas (97) * zodbot (4) Generated by `MeetBot`_ 0.1.4 .. _`MeetBot`: http://wiki.debian.org/MeetBot