flock2016
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#fedora-flock-picasso: Lightning Talks - Flock 2016

Meeting started by jflory7 at 07:28:31 UTC (full logs).

Meeting summary

  1. Intro (jflory7, 07:28:35)
    1. First three talks before the meeting started not logged (jflory7, 07:28:39)

  2. Loopabull - Adam Miller (jflory7, 07:28:41)
    1. https://github.com/maxamillion/loopabull (jflory7, 07:28:43)

  3. dgplug summer training - Kushal Das (jflory7, 07:28:45)
    1. dgplug = Durgapur Linux User Group (jflory7, 07:29:13)
    2. https://dgplug.org/ (jflory7, 07:29:15)
    3. Since 2008, summer training for moving students from users to becoming leaders (jflory7, 07:29:35)
    4. Around 10 people who become full-time contributors (jflory7, 07:29:53)
    5. Free and online training (jflory7, 07:30:13)
    6. Guest lectures: Contributors like pfrields/stickster talked about docs, lawyers about licensing, other Fedora contributors about developing in Fedora (jflory7, 07:32:20)
    7. HELP: We'd love to have some assistance, check out #dgplug on freenode (jflory7, 07:32:31)

  4. Trends in Docs - Milan Navratil (jflory7, 07:32:46)
    1. Milan is a tech writer @ Red Hat for many years (jflory7, 07:32:59)
    2. Legos: Buying them you get many bricks. They provide guidance/instructions. "Follow these steps, this is what you will achieve." You can alter it on completion and make it different. Lego guide makers would be great technical writers. Instructions from somewhere like IKEA, a little more difficult (jflory7, 07:34:07)
    3. Traditional documentation focused on features and availability (jflory7, 07:34:29)
    4. New documentation focuses on what the user is trying to do, what problem is the user trying to solve (jflory7, 07:34:56)
    5. Show what can be done by focusing on specific user cases (jflory7, 07:35:25)
    6. === Minimalism === (jflory7, 07:35:32)
    7. Limiting amount of text you need to read to solve problem (jflory7, 07:35:39)

  5. Getting started in the kernel - Laura Abbott (jflory7, 07:37:00)
    1. kernelnewbies is a great site for getting started and is what the kernel Outreachy group uses for getting started (jflory7, 07:37:52)
    2. https://kernelnewbies.org (jflory7, 07:38:04)
    3. Think about what your purpose is when wanting to contribute - what do you want to focus on in the project? (jflory7, 07:38:17)
    4. Understanding error messages from the kernel is powerful and helps you deduce problems and figure out a problem (jflory7, 07:39:07)
    5. If you can patch it, try it; if you report it, read the fix for it later on and understand how it was fixed / changed (jflory7, 07:39:24)
    6. Learn how PCI interfaces work - on laptops, lots of quirks for variety of hardware and PCI is ever-present in PCI (jflory7, 07:39:54)
    7. Come contribute to the kernel! (jflory7, 07:40:14)
    8. http://eudyptula-challenge.org/ (jflory7, 07:40:51)

  6. Translation pain - Jean-Baptiste Holcroft (jflory7, 07:41:23)
    1. "Battling" with Marketing for title of non-technical contributor - like to bring more exposure to translating (jflory7, 07:42:09)
    2. Goal of localization team is update the user experience for a local language (jflory7, 07:43:06)

  7. Two-sided platforms and Fedora - Pravin Satpute (jflory7, 07:47:16)
    1. Thinking of credit card companies: one side is merchants, another side is users (jflory7, 07:48:18)
    2. Thinking of online merchants, e.g. Amazon: one side is companies selling product, another side is users / customers (jflory7, 07:48:39)
    3. Many companies that have become successful by using the two-sided approach to targeting different audiences (jflory7, 07:48:52)
    4. Gaming: As a user, cannot buy games without a console; developers need to write games for platforms (jflory7, 07:50:02)
    5. In two-sided platform, becomes difficult for others to join / compete (jflory7, 07:51:02)
    6. Think of Fedora as a platform: one side are developers, another side are users (jflory7, 07:51:17)
    7. Different Fedora editions now: Workstation, Server, Cloud (jflory7, 07:51:27)
    8. More developers and communications results in benefits to the other side (jflory7, 07:51:45)
    9. HELP: Consider thinking of this two-sided approach when addressing marketing and other parts of Fedora (jflory7, 07:52:43)

  8. Haskell SIG Update - Jens Petersen (jflory7, 07:52:55)
    1. Haskell is attractive for its mathematical applications and uses; more formal, but helpful for variety of projects / uses (jflory7, 07:53:43)
    2. Fedora released 7.8 of Haskell recently (?) (jflory7, 07:54:12)
    3. Very tight dependency-tracking, avoid updating too many libraries at once (jflory7, 07:54:54)

  9. Conclusion (jflory7, 07:56:49)
    1. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Flock/Lightning_Talks_2016 (jflory7, 07:56:56)


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