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

2010-04-15 Thread Asheesh Laroia
Excerpts from Matthew Jadud's message of Thu Apr 15 17:25:19 + 2010: > Hi Asheesh, > > On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 12:39, Asheesh Laroia wrote: > > We'll have a programmatic backend for checking students' work. > > Are you developing this for a specific course or instructor? If not, > then you m

Re: [TOS] Why do you care about TOS?

2010-04-15 Thread Mel Chua
On 04/15/2010 12:20 PM, Greg DeKoenigsberg wrote: > On Thu, 15 Apr 2010, Shlomi Fish wrote: > >> I don't want to discourage Teaching Open Source or other efforts, but we >> should consider whether forcing young people to get involve in FOSS >> development against their will would be beneficial in t

Re: [TOS] Summer efforts

2010-04-15 Thread Mel Chua
> way the team is prepped and maybe one or more "ambassdors" within the > team who speak standard English and willing to serve as point people > to handle tne basic noob questions and route questions that need > expertise to the experts in the teams could go a long way to > scaffolding the students

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

2010-04-15 Thread Matthew Jadud
Hi Asheesh, On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 12:39, Asheesh Laroia wrote: > We'll have a programmatic backend for checking students' work. Are you developing this for a specific course or instructor? If not, then you might discover you're solving a problem no one has. (Put another way, if you're writing

Re: [TOS] How to add a volunteer opportunity to https://openhatch.org/search/

2010-04-15 Thread Greg DeKoenigsberg
On Thu, 15 Apr 2010, Asheesh Laroia wrote: >> I'll bite. How does one get a "volunteer opportunity" listed on >> openhatch.org. > > Great question. > > We get it so often that we clearly should make a more informative > "about" page. In fact, I would argue that it should be the biggest thing o

[TOS] How to add a volunteer opportunity to https://openhatch.org/search/

2010-04-15 Thread Asheesh Laroia
Excerpts from Joel Sherrill's message of Thu Apr 15 16:47:59 + 2010: > On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 11:39 AM, Asheesh Laroia > wrote: > > 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 slee

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

2010-04-15 Thread Joel Sherrill
On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 11:39 AM, Asheesh Laroia wrote: > 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" par

Re: [TOS] Why do you care about TOS?

2010-04-15 Thread Joel Sherrill
On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 11:20 AM, Greg DeKoenigsberg wrote: > On Thu, 15 Apr 2010, Shlomi Fish wrote: > >> I don't want to discourage Teaching Open Source or other efforts, but we >> should consider whether forcing young people to get involve in FOSS >> development against their will would be bene

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

2010-04-15 Thread 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 w

Re: [TOS] Why do you care about TOS?

2010-04-15 Thread Greg DeKoenigsberg
On Thu, 15 Apr 2010, Shlomi Fish wrote: > I don't want to discourage Teaching Open Source or other efforts, but we > should consider whether forcing young people to get involve in FOSS > development against their will would be beneficial in the long run. I agree: this shouldn't be about forcing

Re: [TOS] Why do you care about TOS?

2010-04-15 Thread Shlomi Fish
On Wednesday 14 Apr 2010 10:44:04 Mel Chua wrote: > I saw this today and was reminded of why it's important to do what we're > doing - or at least what motivates me to work on it. > > http://geekfeminism.org/2010/04/09/is-requiring-open-source-experience-sexi > st/#comments > > The comments on th

Re: [TOS] Summer efforts

2010-04-15 Thread Stephen Jacobs
> My intention is to spend the summer getting to know the teams better, > and come back next term with two different groups, and more > scaffolding in place to help the students ease into the community. Really, I think this is the way to go. Identifying teams and projects that want the participa

Re: [TOS] Some Thoughts about a "How to Get Started Contributing to (and Using) FOSS" essay

2010-04-15 Thread Shlomi Fish
On Sunday 04 Apr 2010 19:04:08 Shlomi Fish wrote: > On Sunday 04 Apr 2010 18:50:02 Asheesh Laroia wrote: > > Excerpts from Shlomi Fish's message of Sun Apr 04 15:30:13 + 2010: > > > On Sunday 04 Apr 2010 05:41:25 Asheesh Laroia wrote: > > > > Excerpts from satyaakam goswami's message of Sat Apr

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

2010-04-15 Thread Joel Sherrill
On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 11:01 PM, C. Titus Brown wrote: > On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 07:43:30PM -0700, Karsten Wade wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 09:21:25PM -0400, Ralph Morelli wrote: > > > > > I think it would be great if there were resources ($$) to support more > > > summer efforts. > > > G

Re: [TOS] Textbook: Getting the Code IRC log

2010-04-15 Thread Matthew Jadud
Hi David, On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 00:03, David Nalley wrote: > I largely agree with your analysis of the conversation from the talk page. > Looking back, I have seen this exact conversation occur previously > (and similarly disastrously (and I don't have any qualms saying that > as 1. I was part