Re: Helping newcomers get involved in Clojure projects

2014-04-16 Thread kurofune
Even a tutorial on how to read normal stack-traces would be cool to help take an eager beginner from not knowing anything at all to having a good idea. Sometimes you just need that resource to point something out to you: this is the filename. This is the line. etc. And honestly, if 4clojure

Re: Helping newcomers get involved in Clojure projects

2014-04-15 Thread kurofune
For what it's worth, I would like to see a codecademy.com type site but for Clojure that can take you from 0 to hero, in one place, with interactive tracks depending on subject (i.e. Web-Dev, core functions, key libraries, idioms, regex, encryption, etc.). Something like an interactive SICP to

Re: Helping newcomers get involved in Clojure projects

2014-04-15 Thread kurofune
For what it's worth, I would like to see a codecademy.com type site but for Clojure that can take you from 0 to hero, in one place, with interactive tracks depending on subject (i.e. Web-Dev, core functions, key libraries, idioms, regex, encryption, etc.). Something like an interactive SICP to

Re: Helping newcomers get involved in Clojure projects

2014-04-15 Thread Gary Trakhman
Is there a generalized framework we can use for such 'codeacademy' sites? The closest thing that already exists I think is 4clojure, perhaps adding a tracks-navigation sort of thing would address that specific need? Though, I think my criticism with these things, is the best way to learn really

Re: Helping newcomers get involved in Clojure projects

2014-04-15 Thread Leif
Re: tagging issues, we should probably just ask clojure library authors to add their projects to OpenHatch's issue indexers. They have them for Github issues and JIRA, which covers clojure/core (JIRA) and *most* current open source libs (Github). That way, each individual project maintainer

Re: Helping newcomers get involved in Clojure projects

2014-04-15 Thread Colin Fleming
That's interesting. I think such a database of common errors would be an extremely useful resource, not only for learning but also for development of linting tools (I think this is more or less what Dynalint does right now) and other tools. For example, I'd love to be able to flag these types of

Re: Helping newcomers get involved in Clojure projects

2014-04-14 Thread Leif
Below is a list of the top 1,000 clojure projects (by star count) from github with issues with labels that sound somewhat appropriate for newcomers. Don't worry, the final list is way less than 1,000. Considering the list, we see that: 1. The community may want to attempt to standardize

Re: Helping newcomers get involved in Clojure projects

2014-04-14 Thread Marcus Blankenship
Leif, this is really cool. Thanks for taking the time to find this. I wish there were wiki page where we could put this for safe keeping, so future n00bs could find it. Or, maybe you could release the script you used to create this, which of course would be in Clojure as well... ;-) On Apr

Re: Helping newcomers get involved in Clojure projects

2014-04-14 Thread Bridget
Wow, Leif. This is great. Thanks so much for doing this. For #1 - Proposing a label for issues appropriate to newcomers seems like something very doable to get this kickstarted. I propose bite-sized, to keep in line with what OpenHatch https://openhatch.org/wiki/Bug_trackersdoes. Does anyone

Re: Helping newcomers get involved in Clojure projects

2014-04-14 Thread Marcus Blankenship
For now we can use a github repo: https://github.com/marcuscreo/clojure-learning-resources Send me a pull request, or let me know if you want access to edit directly. I also put Leif's excellent list in the wiki portion of the repo as well.

Re: Helping newcomers get involved in Clojure projects

2014-04-11 Thread Erlis Vidal
Anyone doing something about this? I would like to start contributing to some OSS it's the only chance I'll have to use clojure in something useful, I don't have the privilege to use it at work but I really don't know where to start. On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 3:49 PM, Bridget

Re: Helping newcomers get involved in Clojure projects

2014-04-11 Thread Marcus Blankenship
+1 to this concept. Also, I don't live near a ClojureBridge workshop, or user groups. One thing I've been arranging is pair programming sessions, which may turn into something for helping folks meet each other and work on interesting stuff. But, it's a different approach. On Apr 11, 2014, at

Re: Helping newcomers get involved in Clojure projects

2014-01-29 Thread Bridget
On Monday, January 27, 2014 9:35:17 AM UTC-5, Michael Klishin wrote: Bridget: Are there any other Clojure projects that are doing this? Some ClojureWerkz [1] projects do, and eventually all key ones will. 1. http://clojurewerkz.org MK That's excellent. One thought is to create and

Re: Helping newcomers get involved in Clojure projects

2014-01-27 Thread Michael Klishin
Bridget: Are there any other Clojure projects that are doing this? Some ClojureWerkz [1] projects do, and eventually all key ones will. 1. http://clojurewerkz.org MK -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Clojure group. To post to this group, send

Re: Helping newcomers get involved in Clojure projects

2014-01-27 Thread Bart Spiers
Great initiative! I've been having the problem of not knowing what project to get into as it often seems daunting. On the one hand, there are a ton of projects, on the other hand, I have no clue where I actually might be able to help. I'm sure a lot of other people experience the same. On

Re: Helping newcomers get involved in Clojure projects

2014-01-27 Thread Tim Visher
On Sat, Jan 25, 2014 at 1:54 PM, Bridget bridget.hill...@gmail.com wrote: OpenHatch has this great initiative for encouraging newcomers to get involved with open source projects. You tag some issues in your bug tracker as newcomer or easy. This provides a gentle path into contributing. There

Re: Helping newcomers get involved in Clojure projects

2014-01-27 Thread Bridget
On Saturday, January 25, 2014 2:13:35 PM UTC-5, Jarrod Swart wrote: I have been spending a lot of time thinking about the Clojure newcomer perspective lately, and I'd like to work on some things that help smooth that path. I've been thinking about this as well, and I would love to hear

Re: Helping newcomers get involved in Clojure projects

2014-01-27 Thread Bridget
That's a great idea. Someone should do that. At the very least, remote pairing is a good idea for mentoring people to help with a project. On Saturday, January 25, 2014 2:48:06 PM UTC-5, Marcus Blankenship wrote: +1 One idea: what about doing some remote pairing and virtual hackathon

Re: Helping newcomers get involved in Clojure projects

2014-01-26 Thread Timothy Washington
Hi Marcus, Thanks for the offer of help. There's no mailing list yet. But I'll certainly set that up, if need be. Were you able to clone and start the system? The first thing I want to do is make it easy to setup. So let me know what else you could use, in addition to what's in the

Helping newcomers get involved in Clojure projects

2014-01-25 Thread Bridget
OpenHatch has this great initiativehttps://openhatch.org/wiki/Bug_trackersfor encouraging newcomers to get involved with open source projects. You tag some issues in your bug tracker as newcomer or easy. This provides a gentle path into contributing. There is some work involved with this. You

Re: Helping newcomers get involved in Clojure projects

2014-01-25 Thread Jarrod Swart
I have been spending a lot of time thinking about the Clojure newcomer perspective lately, and I'd like to work on some things that help smooth that path. I've been thinking about this as well, and I would love to hear your thoughts. Please elaborate! On Saturday, January 25, 2014

Re: Helping newcomers get involved in Clojure projects

2014-01-25 Thread Mimmo Cosenza
+1 On Jan 25, 2014, at 7:54 PM, Bridget bridget.hill...@gmail.com wrote: OpenHatch has this great initiative for encouraging newcomers to get involved with open source projects. You tag some issues in your bug tracker as newcomer or easy. This provides a gentle path into contributing. There

Re: Helping newcomers get involved in Clojure projects

2014-01-25 Thread Marcus Blankenship
+1 One idea: what about doing some remote pairing and virtual hackathon sessions which let people work together? I went to a hackathon this weekend and it seems like a great way to learn. Thanks, Marcus Marcus Blankenship 541-805-2736 On Jan 25, 2014, at 11:24 AM, Mimmo Cosenza

Re: Helping newcomers get involved in Clojure projects

2014-01-25 Thread Timothy Washington
+1 I need help building out Stefon https://github.com/stefonweblog/stefon and accompanying plugins https://github.com/stefonweblog. Tim Washington Interruptsoftware.com http://interruptsoftware.com/ On Sat, Jan 25, 2014 at 1:54 PM, Bridget bridget.hill...@gmail.com wrote: OpenHatch has

Re: Helping newcomers get involved in Clojure projects

2014-01-25 Thread Marcus Blankenship
I’d love to help with Stefon. I just forked it, and am trying to get it running. Is there a mailing list for it? On Jan 25, 2014, at 12:41 PM, Timothy Washington twash...@gmail.com wrote: +1 I need help building out Stefon and accompanying plugins. Tim Washington