[p2pu-webcraft] What are the core topics that should always have active study groups?

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2011/4/25 Parag Shah <adaptives at gmail.com>:
> Hi Pippa,
> I am actually trying to do something similar at diycomputerscience.com
> I call the 'always on' courses, 'DIY Courses', and fixed schedule courses
> are 'Study Groups'. I have some material which I have curated from what is
> available for re-use on a commercially friendly Creative Commons license. I
> am also in the process of talking to some people to create more material,
> all of which will be made public on a Creative Commons license.
> BTW I am open sourcing the software which is powering diycomputerscience.com
> as well. I am developing it using the Play Framework on Java. Here's the
> code https://github.com/adaptives/sole
> The code has been written in a hurry because I wanted to get this thing out
> before May (internship time), and is in bad shape... but I will be improving
> things over time...
>
> --
> Thanks & Regards
> Parag Shah
> http://blog.adaptivesoftware.biz
>
> On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 6:42 PM, Pippa Buchanan <Pippa.Buchanan at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> So, a group which is about choosing appropriate tools for specific jobs?
>> Perhaps comparisons of frameworks could be part of a larger goal of specing
>> out projects?
>>
>> Where would we start looking to find the best resources for this type of
>> group to use?
>>
>> P*
>>
>> On 20 April 2011 20:09, Atul Varma <avarma at mozilla.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Some kind of group that teaches you how to make sense of the innumerable
>>> server-side languages/frameworks out there would be awesome.
>>>
>>> Typed on a tiny keyboard.
>>> On Apr 20, 2011, at 8:51 AM, Pippa Buchanan <pipstar.battlecat at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> One of the great things about the new P2PU study group model is that it's
>>> flexible enough to remain active beyond a traditional course time span and
>>> can be collaboratively improved by participants.  This gives School of
>>> Webcraft the opportunity to setup core study groups and tasks for a number
>>> of topics and to work with their initial creators to keep them up to date
>>> and administered by other study group members.
>>>
>>> What are the default study groups that people should always be able to
>>> participate in?
>>> And can you suggest who'd be able to create the study group, and be the
>>> initial adminstrator.(main responsibility: accept sign-ups from
>>> participants, but also act as the initial curator of materials and tasks)?
>>>
>>> My first pass ideas are:
>>>
>>> Basic Web Publishing - Finding a webhost, FTP
>>> HTML - Web Page Structure and Semantics
>>> CSS - Styling Your Web Pages
>>> JavaScript Basics- Add interaction and complexity
>>> JQuery
>>>
>>> These have a very core, front-end focus - but pretty much cover the
>>> basics that people have to know - whether they're a professional web
>>> developer, a hobbyist, or someone who web develops as part of another job (
>>>
>>>
>>>
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> http://blog.adaptivesoftware.biz
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jquery, mootools and the other things are really cool but could be
good create study groups with some mozilla projects, ie. addons for
firefox, personas, code exposition of some projects will be nice for
the mozilla projects and the students, this is an idea from the latin
american Sow team