Re: We're a group of students at UC Berkeley looking to contribute to Django

2011-09-28 Thread Sam Whitlock
I am in the same group as Jamin. Here is some more info about the class. Berkeley has these classes called DeCal classes. They are student-taught classes about all sorts of things (Starcraft to Wheelchair Basketball). More info at the official site . We are enrolled in th

Re: We're a group of students at UC Berkeley looking to contribute to Django

2011-09-27 Thread shacker
Since you're at Berkeley, stop by the Graduate School of Journalism some time to see the Django sites we run and meet the devs (look me up). Would also be interested in campus Django meetings (any alternative to the relentless Drupal push on campus :). ./s -- You received this message because

Re: We're a group of students at UC Berkeley looking to contribute to Django

2011-09-27 Thread Jeremy Dunck
On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 3:36 AM, Paul McMillan wrote: > I'm Paul, one of the core devs for Django. I'm curious which class > you're enrolled in and what your requirements are. I'm always excited > to see new people looking to get involved in the project, and I happen > to be VERY local. Hi Paul &

Re: We're a group of students at UC Berkeley looking to contribute to Django

2011-09-27 Thread Paul McMillan
Hi Jamin, I'm Paul, one of the core devs for Django. I'm curious which class you're enrolled in and what your requirements are. I'm always excited to see new people looking to get involved in the project, and I happen to be VERY local. If you wanted to meet up some evening in one of the libraries

Re: We're a group of students at UC Berkeley looking to contribute to Django

2011-09-27 Thread Paul McMillan
Alec, I'm glad you're excited about this issue, but let's keep discussion of the installation issue on the other thread (and/or the ticket tracker). It would be best if we didn't go tasking new volunteers with big projects the community hasn't agreed on. The ticket tracker, and the issues there,

Re: We're a group of students at UC Berkeley looking to contribute to Django

2011-09-26 Thread Alec Taylor
Great to hear you're getting involved! Some things I'd like implemented in DJango involve reducing build-setup environment and expanding project uses to the CMS markets by incorporated DJango project distribution+setup. For starters, I was thinking 3 installers (exe,rpm,deb) and a shell script (s

Re: We're a group of students at UC Berkeley looking to contribute to Django

2011-09-26 Thread Alex Gaynor
On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 11:10 PM, jaminw wrote: > Hi all, > > We're a a group of students at UC Berkeley taking an open source class and > we've decided to contribute to Django. > > We looked at the bug tracker but it seems a little disorganized and some of > the easier bug reports are kinda triv

We're a group of students at UC Berkeley looking to contribute to Django

2011-09-26 Thread jaminw
Hi all, We're a a group of students at UC Berkeley taking an open source class and we've decided to contribute to Django. We looked at the bug tracker but it seems a little disorganized and some of the easier bug reports are kinda trivial. Is there any suggestions on how do we start? Thanks!