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

[Yash Agarwal]

Mondays is good for me too, though sadly I won't be able to attend the IRC
meeting this wed(18th May) due to an prior family commitment.

On Sun, May 15, 2016 at 10:13 PM Eli Heuer <eliheuer at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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