Bug#727644: ITP: snap-byob -- ITP: snap-byob -- A block-based drag-and-drop programming environment
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Nicolas Guilbert * Package name: snap-byob Version : 4.0 Upstream Author : Jens Mönig * URL : http://snap.berkeley.edu * License : AGPL Programming Lang: Javascript Description : ITP: snap-byob -- A block-based drag-and-drop programming environment Snap! (formerly BYOB) is a visual drag-and-drop programming language designed for the creation of interactive stories, animations, games, music, and art. It is an extended reimplementation of Scratch (a project of the Lifelong Kindergarten Group at the MIT Media Lab) that allows you to Build Your Own Blocks. . Snap! is designed to help young people develop 21st century learning skills. As they create Snap! projects, they learn important mathematical and computational ideas, while also gaining a deeper understanding of the process of design. . It also features first class lists, first class procedures, and continuations. These added capabilities make it suitable for a serious introduction to computer science for high school or college students. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20131024204738.2381.70215.reportbug@ikulrir
Re: Requesting DDs who want to help greet new contributors
On Tuesday, July 30, 2013 12:00:18 PM Asheesh Laroia wrote: > Hi all Debianites, > > I've been inspired by the "Developer Advisory Team" in another project > [1], and so I want to create a similar team within Debian. In this email, > first I'll summarize what the concept of Developer Advisory Team is, and > second I'll request help. > > The stated goals are: > > * Reach out to new contributors, thank them for their work and get > feedback. > > * Reach out to people who might be ready to apply for upload rights and > help them. > > * Reach out to contributors that went inactive and get feedback from them > and offer help. > This sounds like means rather than goals to me. My guess is that the goal would be something like "create a feel-good atmosphere around and within Debian" or "get more people engaged in the development of Debian". If the latter is what we want, how about also involving some other leverages: * promoting the mentoring principle as the official Debian way of building the community's skill pool. Mentoring is known to be the by far most efficient pedagogy [citation pending] - a perfect match for the best distribution :) * the mentoring principle holds the promise of exponential growth, which is interesting if you can get the coefficient sufficiently far above 0 (one mentor can teach "two", who can teach "two" etc.). Pushing up the coefficient could also be achieved by contributors to the project acting increasingly as advocates for it. This advocacy could be built around narratives such as "Contributing to a project like Debian is something one can be proud of - tell that you do, what you do, why you do it and encourage others to do it." Social engineering can also be quite efficient :) Thanks for a fine initiative, Nicolas -- Nicolas Guilbert "Intelligence: property of a lifeform capable of outliving its planet of origin" -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4185618.VxLhrfubq3@ikulrir
Bug#698384: ITP: libmindstorms -- A C++ library to control a Lego Mindstorms brick
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Nicolas Guilbert * Package name: libmindstorms Version : 0.0.1 Upstream Author : Nicolas Guilbert * URL : https://gitorious.org/mindstorms/libmindstorms * License : LGPL Programming Lang: C++ Description : A C++ library to control a Lego Mindstorms brick A C++ library to control a Lego Mindstorms NXT brick via bluetooth. Some third party sensors are supported and support for further sensors can easily be included. Orginal code by and...@mindstorms.dk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20130117193147.20746.81327.reportbug@ikulrir
