[fedora-classroom] Proposal: Learn To Package Week

[Kevin Fenzi]

On Tue, 29 Dec 2009 03:08:16 -0500
Mel Chua <mel at redhat.com> wrote:

> On 12/28/2009 03:38 PM, Kevin Fenzi wrote:
> > On Wed, 16 Dec 2009 00:06:50 -0500
> > Mel Chua<mel at redhat.com>  wrote:
> >
> >> Dear Classroom list: Aaron Clark had an idea at this past FUDCon.
> >>
> >> http://iwrotecode.blogspot.com/2009/12/future-fudcon-hackfest-request.html
> >>
> >> Proposal: Learn To Package Week (New Years' Resolution Special
> >> Edition), January 4-10, 2010.
> >
> > Any further news on this? We are getting close to this timeframe...
> >
> > Let me know if there is anything further we can do from the
> > classroom side of things.
> 
> Thanks for the ping, Kevin - in retrospect, right before the holiday 
> season may not have been the best time to start planning this. We've
> got interested people but no firm commitments for doing specific
> things at specific times on specific days.

Yeah... might be wise to push it out a bit and try and firm out the
schedule?

> What we need are people to step up to be the point person for
> arranging a class and "lab hours" on each of those 5 days. This
> doesn't require any packaging knowledge (you can be a student
> organizing a class you want to take) and involves 2 things:
> 
> 1. find a teacher - someone who can walk people (on gobby and IRC) 
> through the collaborative construction of a single working spec file
> for something that needs to be packaged; arrange a time for class,
> announce it, publicize it, and get people to come, and make sure the
> class is documented afterwards ("link to logs from the wiki page").
>
> 2. schedule "lab hours" - at least 2 consecutive hours of time after 
> class with at least 1 experienced packager in an IRC channel able to 
> field questions from new packagers, and a list of packages that new 
> packagers can pick up and start working on.
> 
> If you want, you can pick a theme for your day - one could imagine
> Fonts Day, Blogs And Associated Plugins Day, Cloud Day, etc.
> 
> Holler if there's anything I can do to explain this better, or if 
> someone has a better logistics-wrangling arrangement to propose, or 
> wants to get together a day, or knows a packager who'd be willing to 
> teach one of these days.

Well, I would be happy to hang around and help with lab hours as time
permits, but I am working at dayjob, so I might be busy. 

kevin
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