On Friday Morning, I presented the Open Source Development process to the Rochester Institute of Technology Honors Seminar working on the Math4Team project [1] with FAmNA, Sugar Labs and OLPC.
After gaining insight from GDK, Mel Chua and Dave Nalley, I covered the following topics (in no particular order): * Order of operations for question asking - search first, then ask, but don't be afraid to ask. * The joy that is IRC and the mailing list * release early and release often * Document, Document, Document. Wiki, Mailing list etc, just be sure it's somewhere searchable. * And finally, GIT, repos and such. The rest will come by doing and interacting with the community. Some may have felt I was throwing them to the wolves, but there's only so much I can convey in 30 minutes. I did assure the class that no one would treat them badly because of they might be new. In fact, Mel Chua was very welcoming while teaching some of the students IRC basics. ~Karlie Robinson [1] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Math4Team _______________________________________________ FourthGradeMath mailing list [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/fourthgrademath
