Darren + Matt - possibly a bit wordy, but all the info I wanted to convey is in there... feel free to cleanup/rearrange/annotate/send to the class. Cc'ing the Design and Marketing lists so folks can see what's going on. Allegheny students, if you're reading this, anything your professors say or send to the list supersedes anything you read or see on these lists - this is a draft I'm sending out to keep Fedora community members in the loop. --- The third "Allegheny Meets Fedora" class just finished (Fedora people, see http://blog.melchua.com/2010/04/06/fedora-hat-fleisige-helfer/ for more context). Thanks to ke4qqq, rbergeron, sdziallas, and mizmo (David Nalley, Robyn Bergeron, Sebastian Dziallas, and Mo Duffy) for helping us out today! The remainder of this email is written for the class. There's a link to the IRC log from today somewhere in there. A few notes: 0. You all did an *extremely* good job today - we're throwing you into the deep end of something that's moving fast, and you're doing a great job of asking questions and keeping up. Remember our mantra: Productively Lost. Sometimes, the best thing you can do is ask questions and tell us exactly why you're confused - it helps us fix things better for the next people who come around. A good target before our next class on Thursday morning might be to have your team write an introduction email explaining your project, introducing yourselves, describing your current plans, and asking any questions you might currently have to the mailing list of the team you're working with (there is a link to the mailing list subscription page at the bottom of this email). You don't have to do this - it's just a suggestion - but it's what I'll suggest to any team that asks me "we're not sure what to do, what should we do?" between now and Thursday. 1. My email is mchua AT fedoraproject DOT org if you need *anything.* You can always start by emailing me; if we need to move to another list or an IRC channel or something, I'll let you know. 2. I am on campus between Wednesday morning and Friday night, and I would like to spend as much time as possible in those 3 days working with teams on their projects. Just email me and let me know a time and place (I'm unfamiliar with campus, so will need directions) to come out and work with you/your team. Note that I have a flexible schedule all day, and that my usual bedtime is somewhere between 1am-4am. So if I'm awake, I will come out to campus. If I'm asleep, I won't reply until I wake up. ;) 3. Information about the class is at https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Allegheny_Activism:_Team_Assignments, and each of your teams has an information page on https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Allegheny_Activism:_Team_Assignments with some resources that members of the Fedora community have tried to pull together to help you get started. 4. I've heard that some people would like alternate images burned - for instance, it may help the Sugar on a Stick webpage folks to have one of those sticks to play with, and the Design Suite people may want a Design Suite liveCD... if you'd like one of these things (Darren and Matt included), please email me and let me know and we'll figure out a way to take care of it. We have CDs available for those who want CDs, but you're going to have to bring your own (2GB+) stick to burn (make sure it's got nothing on it that you want to keep - but you can always wipe it and reuse it afterwards). 5. A log of today's chat is available at https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Allegheny_Activism:_2010-04-06_log. 6. Some of you may have been asked to join other mailing lists and channels by the Fedora folks you were talking to today. This is a good idea. The lists you may have been invited to join are likely: * https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/design-team (design) * https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing (marketing) * https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/websites (websites) And the channels may be: * #allegheny * #fedora-design * #fedora-mktg * #fedora-websites The last two channels require a special sort of registration with IRC; if you need to get into one of those channels and need help figuring out how to register, email me. Thanks again --Mel PS: ADDENDUM! You folks have just made the lives of future contributors easier - after class there was a bit of discussion on IRC about people not being able to get into the #fedora-mktg channel to help out because of registration issues. Bob Jensen saw this, popped in and changed the settings... and you should be able to just join that channel now. Thanks, Bob! (And thanks to the class for pointing this out to us!) _______________________________________________ design-team mailing list design-team@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/design-team
