10:19 a.m.
(Now sending from the right email address so I can actually post to
logistics...)
For people new to this conversation - the context is that a team at Olin
College is preparing for the Etherpad FAD (an activity day dedicated to
getting Etherpad deployed within Fedora, which implies building up a lot
of software engineering infrastructure and possibly hacking its code
along the way; it's close to abandonware at the moment) and I'm helping
them make sure they're ready for the event, because it includes an
unusually high percentage and large number of brand-new FOSS
contributors who'll need a lot of scaffolding and guidance.
Ccing the logistics list because this may make a useful way to think
about preparing for FADs in the future - Fedora people, see the link at
the end of this email. Also Ccing TOS, because I'm curious if this is a
useful way to think about preparing hackathons for students and vice versa.
--
All right, folks (meaning the Olin team). You have homework to do before
our meeting.
Make these things as best you can. I've tried to spec in deliverables as
best I could, and explain the results I'm trying to accomplish by each
one (if you can think of an alternative thing that accomplishes the same
results, feel free to do that instead!)
You should ''finish'' these, but not ''polish'' them (get
all the
content in, but don't worry about typesetting or putting stuff in a
shiny pdf yet). You should try to complete them, but also know they
won't be done before our meeting - they won't be final, they'll still
need tweaking. Think of it as bringing your complete first draft in for
review. We'll spend our conversation time hacking on the rest of this
and making sure things are clear to you on how to get them the rest of
the way ready before the event.
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Etherpad_FAD#Resources
If you can send me links to the completed resources (you can make them
right in there on the wiki page) at least an hour before our meeting
time, that would be excellent, because then I'll have a chance to review
them and queue up commentary ahead of time, and we'll be able to get a
lot more done during our actual call.
Feel free to send questions about this stuff at any time, and to push
back if things don't make sense or if I'm being an overbearing dictator.
:) These are all suggestions you can choose whether or not to take - I
won't be offended if you think you've come up with a better way to do
things (heck, I'll want to learn!) I'm here to help you make the FAD the
kickass success you want it to be, so *you* tell me how I can help
you... this is just my initial offer.
Send me a ping letting me know you've read this message and whether the
instructions in the "Resources" page make sense - enough for you to
start working on it, at least.
--Mel
11:31 p.m.
New subject: Etherpad FAD preparation
Embarrassingly, just read your message (I knew I didn't have the bandwidth
to work on it, so decided to let Schrodingers cat remain in flux a little
longer). I've edited the page a bit. Will keep working tomorrow. Should be a
great meeting!
Colin
On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 11:19 AM, Mel Chua <mel(a)redhat.com> wrote:
(Now sending from the right email address so I can actually post to
logistics...)
For people new to this conversation - the context is that a team at Olin
College is preparing for the Etherpad FAD (an activity day dedicated to
getting Etherpad deployed within Fedora, which implies building up a lot of
software engineering infrastructure and possibly hacking its code along the
way; it's close to abandonware at the moment) and I'm helping them make sure
they're ready for the event, because it includes an unusually high
percentage and large number of brand-new FOSS contributors who'll need a lot
of scaffolding and guidance.
Ccing the logistics list because this may make a useful way to think about
preparing for FADs in the future - Fedora people, see the link at the end of
this email. Also Ccing TOS, because I'm curious if this is a useful way to
think about preparing hackathons for students and vice versa.
--
All right, folks (meaning the Olin team). You have homework to do before
our meeting.
Make these things as best you can. I've tried to spec in deliverables as
best I could, and explain the results I'm trying to accomplish by each one
(if you can think of an alternative thing that accomplishes the same
results, feel free to do that instead!)
You should ''finish'' these, but not ''polish'' them (get
all the content
in, but don't worry about typesetting or putting stuff in a shiny pdf yet).
You should try to complete them, but also know they won't be done before our
meeting - they won't be final, they'll still need tweaking. Think of it as
bringing your complete first draft in for review. We'll spend our
conversation time hacking on the rest of this and making sure things are
clear to you on how to get them the rest of the way ready before the event.
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Etherpad_FAD#Resources
If you can send me links to the completed resources (you can make them
right in there on the wiki page) at least an hour before our meeting time,
that would be excellent, because then I'll have a chance to review them and
queue up commentary ahead of time, and we'll be able to get a lot more done
during our actual call.
Feel free to send questions about this stuff at any time, and to push back
if things don't make sense or if I'm being an overbearing dictator. :) These
are all suggestions you can choose whether or not to take - I won't be
offended if you think you've come up with a better way to do things (heck,
I'll want to learn!) I'm here to help you make the FAD the kickass success
you want it to be, so *you* tell me how I can help you... this is just my
initial offer.
Send me a ping letting me know you've read this message and whether the
instructions in the "Resources" page make sense - enough for you to start
working on it, at least.
--Mel
10:23 a.m.
New subject: Etherpad FAD preparation
On 09/24/2010 12:31 AM, Colin Zwiebel wrote:
Embarrassingly, just read your message (I knew I didn't have the
bandwidth to work on it, so decided to let Schrodingers cat remain in
flux a little longer). I've edited the page a bit. Will keep working
tomorrow. Should be a great meeting!
Keep going! (That goes for all of you who look at this and have some
time to spare between now and our meeting this afternoon. ;-) Plenty to
be filled in there; if you're wondering whether to make a comment or an
edit, make an edit. It's a wiki, and it's easier for us to edit from
concrete artifacts than it is to start from scratch. Be bold!
I'll see you folks right at 4; my Skype username is mel_chua, for
whoever's going to be calling. I've got a hard cutoff at 5pm, so we'll
have to be pretty efficient today. :)
--Mel
10:37 a.m.
New subject: Etherpad FAD preparation
Just as a heads-up, since it turns out that Olin is an hour away from my
house, I'm not going to need the dorm room space. My wife convinced me
in the merit of sleeping in my own bed, no matter how late I drag in. :)
~spot
3:10 p.m.
New subject: Etherpad FAD preparation
Cool. Jon, you no longer have to share a room. Hooray!
Colin
On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 11:37 AM, Tom "spot" Callaway
<tcallawa(a)redhat.com>wrote:
Just as a heads-up, since it turns out that Olin is an hour away from
my
house, I'm not going to need the dorm room space. My wife convinced me
in the merit of sleeping in my own bed, no matter how late I drag in. :)
~spot
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