posse_rit_tuesday
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#teachingopensource Meeting

Meeting started by mchua at 12:20:24 UTC (full logs).

Meeting summary

    1. http://teachingopensource.org/index.php/POSSE_RIT#Tuesday (mchua, 12:20:46)
    2. http://teachingopensource.org/index.php/Planet (mchua, 12:50:09)
    3. http://planet.fedoraproject.org/ # Fedora Planet (ctyler, 12:54:53)
    4. http://betterexplained.com/articles/a-visual-guide-to-version-control/ (posse_projector, 13:04:50)
    5. http://betterexplained.com/articles/intro-to-distributed-version-control-illustrated/ (posse_projector, 13:05:05)
    6. http://righteouspictures.com/web/ (ganderson, 13:06:04)

  2. OLPC impact video (mchua, 13:08:31)
    1. http://righteouspictures.com/web/ (mchua, 13:08:58)
    2. We're watching the trailer right now, as a scene-setting thing for why we're doing what we're doing here. (mchua, 13:09:14)

  3. Fun With Publican (mchua, 13:24:07)
    1. http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_on_a_Stick/Documentation_SOP#Viewing_the_Documentation (mchua, 13:29:51)
    2. http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_on_a_Stick/Documentation_SOP (ctyler, 13:33:23)
    3. Step 1: Start the Fedora environment and log in (ctyler, 13:38:48)
    4. Step 2: Start a terminal by selecting the menu option: Applications>System Tools>Terminal (ctyler, 13:39:33)
    5. Step 3: Type this command: git clone git://git.sugarlabs.org/soas-docs/mainline.git soas-docs (ctyler, 13:40:33)
    6. http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_on_a_Stick/Documentation_SOP (mchua, 13:44:11)
    7. Step 4: type "ls" (list files) -- you should see a list of folders, including one named "soas-docs" (alternately, you can use the "liveuser's Home" icon on the desktop to browse the soas-docs directory) (ctyler, 13:47:00)
    8. Step 5: If you want to take a look at the files, you can open one of the XML files by clicking on it in the graphical viewer, or opening an editor from the command line (ctyler, 13:48:20)
    9. http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_on_a_Stick/Documentation_SOP (ctyler, 13:49:51)
    10. In the graphical view, you may need to right-click and open it with GEdit (ctyler, 13:50:25)
    11. Step 6: In the terminal, change into the directory containing the document we want to build: cd "soas-docs/Creation Kit" (ctyler, 13:52:26)
    12. Step 7: build the PDF of the US English version of the documentation: publican build --format=pdf --lang=en-US (ctyler, 13:54:18)
    13. http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_on_a_Stick/Documentation_SOP (mchua, 13:58:37)
    14. Step 7: find and open the pdf: evince tmp/en-US/*pdf -- or use the graphical viewer (ctyler, 14:00:16)
    15. Step 7: CORRECTION: find and open the pdf: evince tmp/en-US/pdf/*pdf -- or use the graphical viewer (ctyler, 14:02:55)
    16. Step 8: you can create a "patch" containing your changes: git diff >creation-kit-patch.patch (ctyler, 14:05:21)
    17. Step 9: exchange patches with a partner (ctyler, 14:19:11)
    18. Step 10: apply your partner's patch: patch -p0 <nameOfPatchFile (ctyler, 14:20:26)
    19. Karsten's on the phone! (mchua, 14:46:53)
    20. http://translate.fedoraproject.org (quaid, 15:12:27)
    21. http://transifex.net (quaid, 15:12:33)
    22. Chris is now demoing Sugar (mchua, 15:30:41)
    23. http://activities.sugarlabs.org (mchua, 15:42:40)

  4. Teaching moment: getting Bao to ask for help (mchua, 17:04:06)
    1. https://sites.google.com/a/lv5.org/bvworks/home/working-with-sugarlabs/journalimplementationtoxoirc (mchua, 17:05:05)
    2. http://bugs.sugarlabs.org/ticket/581#comment:3 (mchua, 17:05:22)
    3. http://sync.in/ep/pad/view/tEc56sE3Uv/latest (posse_projector, 17:05:43)
    4. http://lists.sugarlabs.org/archive/sugar-devel/2010-June/024716.html (posse_projector, 17:05:53)
    5. Bao is a high school student in Virginia trying to work on Sugar Activities this month, for a co-op like program that his high school has. (mchua, 17:06:19)
    6. He found a ticket to tackle - and then got stuck. I'm going to go through how we got him unstuck. (I should point out here that I actually did *not* know how to write the code he needed - what I was teaching him here was how to ask for help... the community skills you're all learning this week.) (mchua, 17:07:04)
    7. Dave asks whether there's a guide on how to write those sorts of emails, mchua suggests that someone at POSSE RIT try drafting what they think one might look like for their blog post tonight ;) (mchua, 17:35:06)
    8. (if it hits Planet, multiple professors who've guided students in this way before will see it, and they'll likely comment and improve it) (mchua, 17:35:22)
    9. (same process by which Bao wrote code and got help with code - you can do the same thing to get help writing these sorts of guides) (mchua, 17:35:41)
    10. Chris talks about spins and the release cycle (mchua, 17:37:57)
    11. step 1: get the code. (posse_projector, 18:08:33)
    12. http://git.sugarlabs.org/projects/abacus (posse_projector, 18:09:16)
    13. http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Activities/Abacus (posse_projector, 18:10:53)
    14. http://git.sugarlabs.org/projects/abacus/repos/posse-mainline (posse_projector, 18:11:54)
    15. In Terminal: cd Activities (posse_projector, 18:13:17)
    16. You're now in the activities directory. Get the code: git://git.sugarlabs.org/abacus/mainline.git (ctyler, 18:14:48)
    17. in terminal: git clone git://git.sugarlabs.org/abacus/posse-mainline.git Abacus.activity (mchua, 18:15:06)
    18. If there is no Activities directory, you can create it (in your home directory) (ctyler, 18:15:43)
    19. Ctyler explaining ssh keys (mchua, 18:40:11)
    20. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public-key_cryptography (mchua, 18:40:14)
    21. To create an ssh key, the command is "ssh-keygen" (mchua, 18:46:13)
    22. Default values for everything will work (mchua, 18:46:22)
    23. http://bugs.sugarlabs.org/query?status=accepted&status=assigned&status=new&status=reopened&component=Measure&order=priority&col=id&col=summary&col=status&col=type&col=priority&col=milestone&col=component (posse_projector, 18:57:43)
    24. http://bugs.sugarlabs.org/query (posse_projector, 18:57:55)
    25. http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/SoaS_Activity_Criteria (posse_projector, 18:58:58)
    26. Project idea 1: RIT Remix (and remix documentation/process cleanup) (mchua, 19:07:05)
    27. Project idea 2: Measure hacking (the only coding project we've got, actually) (mchua, 19:07:21)
    28. Project idea 3: Get a Sugar Activity through the SoaS inclusion/feature process (release management, documentation) (mchua, 19:07:49)
    29. Question: What do you do if you're starting a FOSS project from scratch? (mchua, 19:08:37)
    30. Answer: Read Karl Fogel's book. (mchua, 19:10:18)
    31. http://producingoss.com/ (mchua, 19:10:22)
    32. End of the day, thanks all! (posse_projector, 19:14:03)


Meeting ended at 19:14:05 UTC (full logs).

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