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| * Monday, November 17, 2008 | | * Monday, November 17, 2008 |
− | * Evening (starting at perhaps 6:30 with dinner, and continuing until 10 or however late the space we get is open) | + | * 6:30pm - 10pm (we will order food together at the beginning; bring your own $ for dinner) |
− | * We're still looking for a space. Can you host? Email mel at laptop dot org! | + | * One Broadway, Cambridge MA 02142 (at the corner of Broadway and 3rd, by the Kendall T stop) |
| + | * Call [[User:Mchua|Mel Chua]] to be let in when you arrive - 847.970.8484 |
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| == About == | | == About == |
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| + | === For developers === |
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| This is a "new Sugar coders hackfest" evening, where people can come to learn about making Activities - bring a project you want to work on, and we'll have people from the core Sugar team around to help, teach, answer questions, run impromptu tutorials, and make tools/patches as needed to ease the entry route for new coders. | | This is a "new Sugar coders hackfest" evening, where people can come to learn about making Activities - bring a project you want to work on, and we'll have people from the core Sugar team around to help, teach, answer questions, run impromptu tutorials, and make tools/patches as needed to ease the entry route for new coders. |
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| + | === For non-developers === |
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| + | We're also looking for people who ''won't'' be coding that night to sprint with David Farning on community infrastructure setup. Problems to tackle include building a Newbie Welcome Wagon package, handling [http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/8630 licensing] of both content and Activity bundles, documentation and testing systems, and more. |
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| == Attendees == | | == Attendees == |
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| Sign up if you're coming, so we know how many to expect- tentatives and drop-ins are ok, but make things much harder to plan for. Also let us know (in parentheses) what you'll be doing! | | Sign up if you're coming, so we know how many to expect- tentatives and drop-ins are ok, but make things much harder to plan for. Also let us know (in parentheses) what you'll be doing! |
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− | * Marco (on-site mentor) | + | * Marco (on-site mentor, Sugar Activity development) |
− | * Tomeu (on-site mentor) | + | * Tomeu (on-site mentor, Sugar Activity development) |
| + | * [[User:Dfarning|Dfarning]] (on-site mentor, infrastructure and documentation) |
| * [[User:Mchua|Mchua]] (hackathon coordinator, working on Larry, a language-learning Activity) | | * [[User:Mchua|Mchua]] (hackathon coordinator, working on Larry, a language-learning Activity) |
| * Yifan + others from Olin, may drop by to check things out | | * Yifan + others from Olin, may drop by to check things out |
| + | * Owen Williams (PenguinTV, may be a little late) |
| + | * Tom Boyle (StarChart, focusing on localization) |
| + | * [[User:Wade|Wade]] (Sugar Activity development) |
| + | * Brian Jordan (Sugar Activity development, Pippy love) |
| + | * Amanda Peyton (MIT Sloan project looking at the SugarLabs organizational structure) |
| + | * Ryan Kabir (new development contributor to Sugar, looking for a place to start) |
| + | * Brendan Powers (new contributor,looking for something simple to get used to the project) |
| + | * Chris Ball (from 7:30) |
| + | * Erik Blankinship (updating the Map Activity) |
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| + | == Stuff to hack on == |
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| + | * Spreadsheet activity: http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/sugar/2008-February/004225.html |
| + | * Mind mapping activity: http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/olpc-sur/2008-November/001173.html |
| + | * Make the Sugar shell react to changes in the ~/Activities dir using inotify. |
| + | * A quiz game with competitive collaboration (cjb) -- e.g. generate arithmetic problems, have a shared countdown, and then the first person to answer correctly gets the most points. Generalizable to quizes about non-math stuff too. |
| + | * A simple searching game: "hot/cold" where the XO is hiding somewhere on the screen (not displayed) and as the cursor moves closer or farther from the XO, the computer responds warmer/colder or hot/cold. |
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| == To do == | | == To do == |
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| Let [[User:Mchua|Mchua]] (mel at laptop dot org) know if you can help! | | Let [[User:Mchua|Mchua]] (mel at laptop dot org) know if you can help! |
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− | * Get a location with wifi, projectors, and ready access to food (which probably means "order pizza, then ask everyone if they can chip in a few dollars when it comes). | + | * <s>Get a location with wifi, projectors, and ready access to food (which probably means "order pizza, then ask everyone if they can chip in a few dollars when it comes).</s> |
− | * make invitations and send them out | + | * <s>make invitations and send them out</s> |
− | * find some way to make nametags for everybody | + | * <s>find some way to make nametags for everybody</s> (Actually, we probably won't need these - we're small enough.) |
| * make sure that the location gets set up (chairs, tables, etc.) and taken down/cleaned-up afterwards | | * make sure that the location gets set up (chairs, tables, etc.) and taken down/cleaned-up afterwards |
| * send thank-you follow up emails after the event encouraging people to come to the rest of Sugarcamp | | * send thank-you follow up emails after the event encouraging people to come to the rest of Sugarcamp |