Re: [SoaS] Heads-up: POSSE folks hacking in Fedora/Sugar this week and next
by Thomas Gilliard
Mel Chua wrote:
> Some of you may have noticed some new faces in #sugar - we (Walter
> Bender, Peter Robinson, and I) are hanging out with a group of
> professors (mostly from the Worcester area) who are in town this week
> for http://teachingopensource.org/index.php/POSSE, a workshop for
> learning how to get their students involved contributing to open source
> projects. (In this case, Sugar, with Fedora as a dev platform.)
>
> They've been learning to hack Sugar all week, and are in fact in #sugar
> at this very moment tinkering away on the Measure Activity. Their feeds
> haven't yet been added to Planet Sugar Labs (those requests are still
> pending), but you can read some of their (great!) reflections so far at
> http://teachingopensource.org/index.php/Planet.
>
> So if you have a moment, pop in and say hello to:
>
> * Peter Froehlich (Johns Hopkins) - pgf
> * Karl Wurst (Worcester State College) - kwurst
> * Nadimpalli Mahadev (Fitchburg State College) - Mahadev
> * Kristina Striegnitz (Union College, Schenectady, NY) - kis
> * Jerry Breecher (Clark University, Worcester MA) - diamond
> * Mihaela Sabin (University of New Hampshire) - mihaela
> * Gary Pollice (Worcester Polytechnic Institute) - gpollice
> * Aparna Mahadev (Worcester State College) - aparna
>
> Next week we'll have another - slightly larger - batch from RIT doing
> the same thing, with myself, Chris Tyler, and Luke Macken focusing more
> on how to make Fedora a better environment for
> running/deploying/developing Sugar - if you have any thoughts in this
> direction, please send comments our way! (Things we've come up with so
> far: general Python development stuff, liveusb-creator hacks, SVG
> rendering working strangely in different recent versions of Fedora... we
> need to turn this into a proper ticket queue.)
>
Fix the autojoin checkbox on right click of IRC tabs, so it remembers
joined channels on next start up?
Tom Gilliard
> Just wanted to let y'all know. I'll blog this to Planet in a moment.
>
> --Mel
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