Etherpad FAD preparation

[Mel Chua]

(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.

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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