[Sugar-devel] [GSOC] Font Editor Next Steps

[Eli Heuer]

I think a weekly Google Hangouts on Air is a great Idea! Monday works for
me, I'm looking forward to it.

My responses to dave's questions:

> How have you found the experience so far?

Wonderful! I'm new to free-software having primarily worked in the video
game industry previously. Being new, I've had to do lots of work/reading to
ramp up, but I feel like the learning that is happening is invaluable and
I'm looking forward to seeking out other free-software projects to work on
after this.

> What did you like?

I'm very interested in learning more about how font editors are built so I
couldn't be more excited about this project. I'm looking forward to testing
the software and designing some fun fonts with it!

> What do you think can be done differently going forwards?

I'd like it if we had a more concrete idea of what we are building, my hope
is that next week we can work on this (more mocks and critique, so we can
hit the ground running at the end of the bonding period). I'm going to be
very adamant that the UX is fun and easy to use. Also, personally I want to
do a better job sharing thoughts and ideas and asking more questions.

I like the format of dave's three questions, I'll do my best to post these
daily.

1. what we did today
2. what we'll do tomorrow
3. any questions for the team

1. I'm at the wiki gardening meeting going through as much of the wiki as I
can and learning about the culture/people of SugarLabs. I also learning
more about Jekyll and wiki editing workflow.

2. I want to keep working on learning how to make GTK mockups for sugar,
this is going a little slow for me but I'm getting there.

3.  Why will the font editor be fun to use and/or am I wrong to think it
should be fun?!


On Sun, May 15, 2016 at 12:25 AM Dave Crossland <dave at lab6.com> wrote:

>
> Hi Yash, Eli, Harshita and sugar-devel
>
> We're well into the GSOC community bonding period, so now is a good time
> to do a review of ourselves. I guess a few quick/simple self evaluation
> questions might be,
>
> How have you found the experience so far?
>
> What did you like?
>
> What do you think can be done differently going forwards?
>
> Do you have any questions for the rest of the team?
>
>
>
>
>
> Here are my quick responses :)
>
> > How have you found the experience so far?
>
> Good! :) I think things are going a little slowly but I think its
> important to spend time reading about the existing libraries/formats and
> this takes time... :)
>
> > What did you like?
>
> I loved how you all have been really good about being present at the tri
> weekly meetings we agreed!
>
> > What do you think can be done differently going forwards?
>
> I'd like to see more questions from you all, and to see more work in
> progress, so to action that I'd like to request a short and simple blog
> post (or email to this thread) with 3 simple things (3 lines :)
>
> 1. what we did today
> 2. what we'll do tomorrow
> 3. any questions for the team
>
> Eg for me today,
>
> 1. I worked on the wiki gardening and learned a bit more about the UX
> history of Sugar directly from Walter
>
> 2. I'll work on the wiki gardening more, and hope to be online in
> #sugar-meeting 10am-3pm :) I have some more UX notes written on paper that
> I'll snap photos of and post on the blog
>
> 3. Would you each be wililng to post a 3-liner like this every day you
> work on the project as you are wrapping up the work-session? :)
>
> (I also invite you to chat about anything you feel stuck about on the
> #sugar channel, which isnt logged, or via IM (gmail chat), if you'd like to
> ask about anything you wouldn't feel totally comfortable with logging on
> #sugar-meeting :)
>
> > Do you have any questions for the rest of the team?
>
> Would you like to use Google Hangouts on Air for a weekly meeting, perhaps
> Monday?
>
> Cheers
> Dave
>
>
>
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