[TOS] Fw: [Posse-south-africa] Sakai: 5 minutes of "experienced FOSS hacker, new project contributor" deep-diving
Jan Wildeboer
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Fri Oct 8 16:09:14 UTC 2010
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Jan
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Subject: [Posse-south-africa] Sakai: 5 minutes of "experienced FOSS hacker,
new project contributor" deep-diving
(I can't reach my RH email, so if someone could forward this to
tos at teachingopensource.org so it hits the main list, that would be great!)
I got bored while waiting for my flight out of Cape Town (to London, where
I have a lovely layover until 4am in my target timezone of EDT... I'm going
to have such awful jetlag when I get back) so I wrote up our 5-minute
improvised deep-dive from the final day of POSSE South Africa this morning,
complete with screenshots.
http://blog.melchua.com/2010/10/08/possesa-fri-5-minutes-of-improvisation/
"Today was our final day: as part of this, Tayo asked me during a coffee
break how I (as an experienced contributor) would get started with an
unfamiliar project. We called the now-caffeinated professors together,
threw my laptop on the projector, had Grant set a countdown timer for 5
minutes, and called out for a random project. “Sakai!” called Boniface.
“That’s… an open source project somehow related to education, and… that’s…
all I know about it!” I responded, and we all agreed these waters were
sufficiently unfamiliar to me to be a fair test."
Karsten, Chris, Mary, others - might someone want to turn this into an
osdc/edu article? I'm on a plane and sleeping off jetlag 'till Tuesday, at
least... need sleep/rest pretty badly at this point, but trying to pump out
content as I can.
Comments welcome; the objective of this exercise was to show a “think out
loud” from an experienced FOSS contributor, with the caveat that every
contributor thinks differently, and that every contributor comes up with
their own way of doing things as they go along.
--Mel
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