wonderful! unfortunately I will be traveling, but I'm sure it will be a great experience. Hugs
Medrado ==================== Em Seg, 2015-11-09 às 13:21 -0800, Dan Roberts escreveu: > Hi Everyone, > As I mentioned on IRC, I want to finish drafting the Hackathon > announcement ASAP so I can get it to my uni's ACM (along with a short > "what is freenet?"). > > We started a piratepad about a week ago for the announcement (which > I'd like to get up on freenetproject.org when it's complete): > http://piratepad.net/lhsiYf5m5Q and I believe I've implemented > Prometheas' changes. Does anyone have further changes they'd like to > add? I believe in the process I also addressed Steve's concern about > not over-specifying what people should work on. > > The announcement links to here: https://wiki.freenetproject.org/Wiki/ > Hackathon > > Does anyone have any additions, corrections, or subtractions they > want > to apply there? > > Thanks everyone. > > Cheers, > Dan > > On Sun, Nov 1, 2015 at 6:20 PM, Dan Roberts <ademan...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > Hi Everyone, > > It's been a week without any objections to the dates. > > > > Therefore, the hackathon will be December 19-20th. > > > > The topic remains an open discussion, however. > > > > Arne proposed Winterface, which I am interested in. However, I do > > have > > some questions: > > > > - How many people really know the Winterface code base well enough > > to > > help us newbies keep moving? > > - Is it more useful to work on FProxy's UI or Winterface in the > > medium term? > > * Can anyone comment about the merits of working on Winterface > > versus removing warts from FProxy's UI from a "utility" > > perspective? > > In other words, is the core team open to "blessing" Winterface in > > some > > fashion if it became polished enough? If Winterface, for one reason > > or > > another, is doomed to remain an experimental plugin for the > > foreseeable future, perhaps it's more useful to shave warts off of > > FProxy's UI? > > > > It sounds like there are a number of veterans interested in hacking > > on > > various projects that interest them. So long as there are veterans > > around who are knowledgeable about the code us newbies will be > > touching, I'm just happy that people will be hacking. > > > > Announcement Wording > > =========== > > > > I'd like to advertise the hackathon on freenetproject.org. Assuming > > the appropriate project leaders approve of this, my first pass of > > the > > text is: > > > > The Freenet Project is holding a hackathon the weekend of December > > 19th and 20th. > > The hackathon is open to developers of all skill levels, and will > > be held > > remotely over [IRC](help.html#irc) as well as on Freenet's > > anonymous IRC > > system, FLIP (link?). > > > > If you would like to participate, please let us know (HOW?), and > > suggest a topic to > > hack on. On Friday, December 18th, we would like for all > > participants to > > sign up on the Bug Tracker (?), have Freenet installed, and be > > ready > > for the hackathon! > > > > Of course, feel free to join us on our [Mailing > > List](https://emu.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl) > > or > > on [IRC](help.html#irc) any time and introduce yourself. > > > > ----- > > > > Problems with the above: > > > > - General wording is awkward > > - What contact methods should be listed for RSVP? (Contact on ML > > only?) > > - If Winterface ends up being the topic, should anyone sign up for > > the > > bug tracker? > > > > > > Finally, should phrasing this announcement be coordinated off-list? > > > > Thanks everyone and cheers, > > Dan > > > > On Sun, Oct 25, 2015 at 2:09 PM, Dan Roberts <ademan...@gmail.com> > > wrote: > > > I can commit to December 19-20th. If anybody has a strong > > > objection to > > > those dates please speak up soon, otherwise I'd like to consider > > > those > > > dates fixed. > > > > > > Regardless of date, does anyone have an opinion on topics? > > > - Steve made a good point that UI code is probably a good topic > > > for > > > newbies, as it generally shouldn't require deep knowledge of > > > Freenet. > > > - Dean also mentioned just generally "bug squashing", I think I'd > > > prefer to be slightly more focused but it could work well. > > > - I don't believe localization should be a primary focus of this > > > hackathon, but it might be a good secondary topic, or topic of a > > > future hackathon. > > > - If the veteran-to-newbie ratio is high, perhaps some deeper > > > topics > > > could be attempted. We'll know closer to the date what to expect. > > > If > > > that were the situation, do any veterans have some particular > > > bugs > > > they'd want to attempt? > > > > > > Any other suggestions? > > > > > > Thanks, > > > Dan > > > > > > On Fri, Oct 23, 2015 at 3:14 PM, xor <x...@freenetproject.org> > > > wrote: > > > > On Friday, October 23, 2015 08:26:39 AM Dan Roberts wrote: > > > > > Hi Steve, > > > > > Thanks for proposing a date, unfortunately I actually > > > > > have final > > > > > exams the week of December 14th so I have very limited > > > > > availability > > > > > that weekend. I was also hoping to try to rally some people > > > > > from my > > > > > university, so the weekend before finals week is doubly > > > > > difficult. > > > > > However, realistically, I think I'd be lucky to attract more > > > > > than 2-3 > > > > > interested students anyways, so that may not really matter, > > > > > especially > > > > > if Dec 12-13 works best for others. > > > > > > > > I would be unhappy if you didn't participate! :) You've done > > > > very good at > > > > acquiring lots of knowledge during the IRC discussions, and you > > > > should get > > > > your chance to be able to finally hit the keyboard with code :) > > > > > > > > What about Dec 19 & 20? > > > > People are anyway more likely to have vacation then than the > > > > weekend before, > > > > so it might be a better date for everyone? > > > > > > > > Greetings > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > Devl mailing list > > > > Devl@freenetproject.org > > > > https://emu.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl > _______________________________________________ > Devl mailing list > Devl@freenetproject.org > https://emu.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl _______________________________________________ Devl mailing list Devl@freenetproject.org https://emu.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl
