[Sugar-devel] Hints for a Sugar dev intro?

[Tomeu Vizoso]

On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 03:50, Martin Langhoff
<martin.langhoff at gmail.com> wrote:
> The Wellington Testers team has been asking me for an intro to
> programming Sugar. So far, my strategy was to flee the country, but
> that trick's getting old...
>
> So I've been wondering - what materials would you suggest for a
> "fast-track into Sugar development" workshop. I am thinking of 2
> half-day sessions, one focused on the Sugar stack and the second one
> on activity creation.

What about starting with 1 hour presentation on what Sugar is, why
some things are different from other desktops and a general
introduction to what activities are, the journal, collaboration model,
etc. Then spend some hours going through a basic Hello World activity,
then put people to work in groups or separate on their starter
activities?

Also, I think that these sessions would be much more productive if
attendants could have gone through the pygtk tutorial before, sections
1-6 + 10: http://www.pygtk.org/pygtk2tutorial/index.html

> The welly testers get together once a week, for
> ~4hs -- so that limits the format in this case.

I think that's pretty good.

> I won't be the best guy to deliver it, but I'll try. I understand the
> XO stack fairly well, but I'm not a Sugar dev, so patchy in some
> areas.

Everybody can be a Sugar dev! :p

> There's an active python UG in Welly, so maybe they want to be part of it too.

That sounds worth trying.

> Outcomes
> • more devs knowing Sugar stack and activities ==> more patches, more
> activities?
> • more expert testers...
> • resulting materials and sliderware
> • video of the session - also freely licensed

Yeah, something like this needs to happen, the sooner the better.
Thanks a lot for pushing for it yourself.

> Now that I think of it, it'd be great to do it in Spanish, and
> circulate it in Uy. Sadly, I don't have a spanish-speaking audience in
> Welly.

Yeah, maybe after you share your experiences other people can
replicate in their countries?

Thanks again,

Tomeu