[p2pu-dev] Contributing to Lernata (code) group. previously... [p2pu-community] Working with the new site: Ideas from Dan Diebolt and I

[zuzel.vp]

Let me know how I can help :)

On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 12:50 AM, Pippa Buchanan
<Pippa.Buchanan at gmail.com> wrote:
> Jessica, that would be great - I'd love to be in a group of people learning
> how to positively hack on the new site. Can I suggest a task - "Getting your
> Python dev environment setup" as that's where I've stalled in my learning of
> Python!
>
> P*
>
> On 30 March 2011 22:02, Jessica Ledbetter <jessica at jessicaledbetter.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> +1 on Contributing to Lernata (code) group. I've been toying with the idea
>> of doing a session on contributing to open source with a focus on Python
>> code but have not had time to make up a fake project yet nor become more
>> than a novice in Python.
>> Are there enough junior tasks? Though I guess we could take a task (that
>> doesn't have an urgency) and do it a loose pair programming style project.
>> It'd show people that are interested how to get code from a repository, find
>> out how to compile it/run it locally, find a bug to work on, make the
>> necessary change, and submit.
>>
>> If Zuzel is game for a novice Python person to lead up a session, I can do
>> it.  How about a 3-4 week one?
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 2:18 PM, Stian Håklev <shaklev at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> I very much agree with the idea of involving more learners in design of
>>> the platform. I would love for someone to run a course on how to hack
>>> Lernanta. It could be more of an open study group of people who want to try
>>> to play with the code together, try to do some of the junior tasks etc. I
>>> mentioned this to Philipp, and he said it would be great, as long as Zuzel
>>> isn't the one leading the course - we want her cranking out high quality
>>> code :) So if anyone else wanted to step up to the table, I think it would
>>> be great. I'd love to participate.
>>> Stian
>>>
>>> On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 12:05, Pippa Buchanan <Pippa.Buchanan at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Dan and I had a conversation earlier today about how we can work with
>>>> the new site.
>>>>
>>>> One of Dan's ideas which I strongly agree with was for Webcraft to
>>>> encourage more study groups that engage learners in developing practical
>>>> skills while helping on the P2PU site and project. This idea has been
>>>> present in the Webcraft community for a while, but it was important that a
>>>> new platform was in development before we put too much energy into improving
>>>> a system about to be retired. I'll engage more strongly with the Webcraft
>>>> community about this but some initial ideas were:
>>>>
>>>> technical documentation and technical writing
>>>> screencasting ***
>>>> HTML5 video - P2PU promotional video / Get Involved info****
>>>> using the ticketing system ****
>>>>
>>>> We also discussed
>>>>
>>>> how to encourage peer feedback to study group task responses. (less the
>>>> organiser's responsibility >  more of a peer effort)
>>>> how to best link in work produced on sites outside of p2pu.org.
>>>> how to encourage Webcraft organisers to use really good tools like
>>>> JSFiddle
>>>>
>>>> We recognised that these are problems shared by many other developers
>>>> exploring Personal Learning Environments.
>>>>
>>>> Pippa
>>>>
>>>
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