[TOS] Teaching materials sprint?

Chris Tyler chris at tylers.info
Tue Apr 14 11:50:05 UTC 2009


On Mon, 2009-04-13 at 12:09 -0400, Greg Dekoenigsberg wrote:
> Hi all.  I've got an activity that I think is trivially crowdsourced, and 
> this is my official call for help.
> 
> Take a look at:
> 
> http://teachingopensource.org/index.php/Teaching_Materials_Catalogue
> 
> After a couple of weeks of sporading work-on-it-as-I-can, I've got a small 
> catalogue of materials.  Useful as a proof of concept, but not much else 
> yet.
> 
> I'd like to get that catalogue to 100 items in the next two weeks, and I'd 
> like your help doing it.
> 
> In the fine old open source tradition, I would like to propose a sprint. 
> A bunch of people get on IRC for two hours, separate out the resources to 
> be catalogued, and everyone works together, using IRC to coordinate the 
> work.  If I can get six people to help for two hours, and everyone gets 10 
> done in those two hours, that's a lot of work done.
> 
> If you are willing to help, and can find a couple of spare hours sometime 
> in the next two weeks -- or even a spare half hour during our selected two 
> hour window -- please let me know.
> 
> --g


Hi Greg,

Sounds like a great idea, I'd like to help. I'm available Friday this
week, or pretty much anytime Mon-Wed next week.

-Chris




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