On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 7:24 AM, Joan Touzet <jo...@atypical.net> wrote:
> Hello CouchDB Developers, > > Based on an informal survey of CouchDB users who are interested in > contributing to the project, two key items tend to hold people back: > > 1. Knowing Erlang (and the CouchDB coding style) > 2. Knowing the CouchDB code base > > So I decided to further my own grad research in Education, and > contribute back to CouchDB, by volunteering to coordinate a class for > 6-20 students. > > ** I'd like to propose an Introduction to CouchDB Programming course, > kicking off January 5, 2012, and ask for support from the current devs > on this list. > > This won't be a traditional classroom course! Students themselves will > be shaping the direction of the course, the topics covered, and will be > expected to lead at least one week of online discussion. (I'll be > providing the pedagogical framework for this Collaborative Learning > model. This is my area of active research.) > > The idea is that, by the end of course (10 weeks or so), participants > will have learned enough Erlang to have basic competency, and enough > about the CouchDB code base to contribute. The "final exam" would be > completing and submitting some number of patches from the outstanding > bin of bugs in JIRA. > > ** I NEED YOUR HELP in two ways: > > A. Suggestions for good reference material (e.g. learnyousomeerlang) > B. Volunteers from the current devs to conduct a "guided tour" of > 1 or more parts of the code > > The "guided tours" are the essential bits for this class to be > successful, and I'd like them as much as possible to be accurate and > accessible to newbs. These tours could take many forms: > > * A screencast of you talking about some code, e.g. ScreenFlow > * A live walkthrough over Adobe Connect video (time donated by my > University dep't for the class) > * IRC-based runthrough > * "Ask the developer" - respond to questions about code on the class > forum > * You fly everyone out to your house for dinner :) Etc. > > ** If you're willing to help out, please reply on or off list and let me > know. Let's grow the contributor community! > > All the best, > -- > Joan Touzet | jo...@atypical.net | wohali most other places > +1 . count for me as well. - benoit
