Etherpad FAD preparation

[Colin Zwiebel]

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 at 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
>
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