[TOS] Summer efforts (was: Re: Textbook: Getting the Code IRC log)

[Asheesh Laroia]

I'm going to do something unusual for me: Snip out everyone's messages
and write a quick summary of my thoughts message.

(Maybe it's my lack of sleep talking.)

This summer, OpenHatch is planning to set up a "training missions" part of
the site where students who want hands-on experience playing with git, Subversion,
tar, patch, and diff can go through exercises.

We'll have a programmatic backend for checking students' work.

I guess with regard to the IRC conversation, my feeling is, "If this student
needed to understand git enough to go through a real tutorial, then that's
when you should start explaining."

I look forward to open source projects having wiki pages like this:

"To get the source code, clone this git link. (Don't know what git is?
You can learn all about how to use it by going through a git training
mission.)" And maybe we can give people a profile badge, or something...?

I'm just thinking aloud. We'll be nailing down details and the ways to integrate
this with the community in a few weeks....

We'll swing around to this list for help with the material, I'm sure....

-- Asheesh.

-- 
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