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

[Tomeu Vizoso]

On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 20:26, Brenda Wallace <brenda at coffee.geek.nz> wrote:
> I've got a book on python for sugar somewhere. My memory of attempts
> was lotsa watching git darcs and svk pulls followed by days of
> watching builds and then a error. Then trying again the next day
> hoping it was fixed in trunk/head

That sounds horrible, I really trust we have improved a lot since those days ;)

Regards,

Tomeu

> On 27/01/2009, at 6:03, Gabriel Eirea <geirea at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> We are planning a Documentation Jam in Uruguay for late February. I
>> think Wade's page is an excellent starting point but we want to do it
>> in Spanish and to write it from our own experience. Many of us started
>> almost from scratch and we want to reflect on the learning curve and
>> get to the essentials so new people can join in with less effort.
>>
>> We have very little experience with Sugar itself. We want to focus at
>> this stage on activities, so we plan to cover things like Python,
>> PyGtk, Cairo, Pango, Pygame, bundling, using git, using trac, using
>> pot files, collaboration, datastore, etc.
>>
>> If you have any new materials or comments, they would be much
>> apprecited.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Gabriel
>>
>> 2009/1/26 Wade Brainerd <wadetb at gmail.com>:
>>> I've been doing my best to collect information on getting started
>>> here.
>>> http://sugarlabs.org/go/ActivityTeam/Resources
>>>
>>> Note that it's focused on activity development.
>>> -Wade
>>> On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 9:50 PM, 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. The welly testers get together once a week,
>>>> for
>>>> ~4hs -- so that limits the format in this case.
>>>>
>>>> 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.
>>>>
>>>> There's an active python UG in Welly, so maybe they want to be
>>>> part of it
>>>> too.
>>>>
>>>> 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
>>>>
>>>> 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.
>>>>
>>>> cheers,
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> m
>>>> --
>>>> martin.langhoff at gmail.com
>>>> martin at laptop.org -- School Server Architect
>>>> - ask interesting questions
>>>> - don't get distracted with shiny stuff  - working code first
>>>> - http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Martinlanghoff
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