Hi there,

Sage Days 16 is coming up next week in Barcelona. On Tuesday, I will give a 
talk on how to get started developing Sage. At SD16 many people are attending 
who never attended a Sage Days before and thus we figured it would be nice to 
provide some hand holding to get into it. 

My outline so far is:

Motivation:
- a brief motivation (shouldn't be needed at this point anyway)

Overview:
- a brief comment on Python and Cython
- the pre-parser (i.e. library vs. command line)
- SPKGs and the Sage Library
- directory structure
- finding the source file for a function
- $SAGE_LOCAL/lib/site-packages/python vs. $SAGE_ROOT/devel
  i.e. explain what sage -b does

Revision Control
- basically the MQ stuff from the dev guide
- how to repair your installation after you've broken it (i.e: "you can't 
really mess up badly, we have MQ!")

The Sage Development Process
- Trac/Reviews: the process
- How to Review Patches

The Sage Community
- Where to ask, where are the resources etc.

So my question is:

What do people think? 

If you are a developer, what do you think must be added, what are the things a 
newbie should know? 

If you didn't contribute code so far, what would you like to see in such a 
talk?

Cheers,
Martin

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