<div dir="ltr"><div><div>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. <br></div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Sun, May 15, 2016 at 10:13 PM Eli Heuer <<a href="mailto:eliheuer@gmail.com">eliheuer@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">I think a weekly Google Hangouts on Air is a great Idea! Monday works for me, I'm looking forward to it. <br><br><div style="font-family:'helvetica neue',helvetica,arial,sans-serif">My responses to dave's questions:</div></div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:'helvetica neue',helvetica,arial,sans-serif"><br></div><div style="font-family:'helvetica neue',helvetica,arial,sans-serif">> How have you found the experience so far?</div><div style="font-family:'helvetica neue',helvetica,arial,sans-serif"><br></div></div></div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:'helvetica neue',helvetica,arial,sans-serif">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. </div><div style="font-family:'helvetica neue',helvetica,arial,sans-serif"><br></div><div style="font-family:'helvetica neue',helvetica,arial,sans-serif">> What did you like?</div><div style="font-family:'helvetica neue',helvetica,arial,sans-serif"><span style="line-height:1.5"><br></span></div><div style="font-family:'helvetica neue',helvetica,arial,sans-serif"><span style="line-height:1.5">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!</span><br></div></div></div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:'helvetica neue',helvetica,arial,sans-serif"><br></div><div style="font-family:'helvetica neue',helvetica,arial,sans-serif">> What do you think can be done differently going forwards?</div><div style="font-family:'helvetica neue',helvetica,arial,sans-serif"><span style="line-height:1.5"><br></span></div></div></div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:'helvetica neue',helvetica,arial,sans-serif"><span style="line-height:1.5">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. </span></div><div style="font-family:'helvetica neue',helvetica,arial,sans-serif"><span style="line-height:1.5"><br></span></div><div style="font-family:'helvetica neue',helvetica,arial,sans-serif"><span style="line-height:1.5">I like the format of dave's three questions, I'll do my best to post these daily. </span></div></div></div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:'helvetica neue',helvetica,arial,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(33,33,33);font-size:13px;line-height:1.5"><br></span></div><div style="font-family:'helvetica neue',helvetica,arial,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(33,33,33);font-size:13px;line-height:1.5">1. what we did today</span><br></div><div style="font-family:'helvetica neue',helvetica,arial,sans-serif"><div style="color:rgb(33,33,33);font-size:13px">2. what we'll do tomorrow</div><div style="color:rgb(33,33,33);font-size:13px">3. any questions for the team</div></div><div style="font-family:'helvetica neue',helvetica,arial,sans-serif"><br></div></div></div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:'helvetica neue',helvetica,arial,sans-serif"><div style="color:rgb(33,33,33);font-size:13px">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. </div><div style="color:rgb(33,33,33);font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(33,33,33);font-size:13px">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. </div><div style="color:rgb(33,33,33);font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(33,33,33);font-size:13px">3. Why will the font editor be fun to use and/or am I wrong to think it should be fun?! </div></div></div></div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><span style="line-height:1.5"><div dir="ltr"><span style="line-height:1.5"><br></span></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="line-height:1.5"><br></span></div>On Sun, May 15, 2016 at 12:25 AM Dave Crossland <</span><a href="mailto:dave@lab6.com" style="line-height:1.5" target="_blank">dave@lab6.com</a><span style="line-height:1.5">> wrote:</span><br></div></div><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><br></div><div><div>Hi Yash, Eli, Harshita and sugar-devel</div><div><br></div><div>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, </div><div><br></div><div>How have you found the experience so far?</div><div><br></div><div>What did you like?</div><div><br></div><div>What do you think can be done differently going forwards?</div><div><br></div><div>Do you have any questions for the rest of the team?</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Here are my quick responses :) </div><div><br></div><div>> How have you found the experience so far?</div><div><br></div><div>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... :)</div><div><br></div><div>> What did you like?</div><div><br></div><div>I loved how you all have been really good about being present at the tri weekly meetings we agreed! </div><div><br></div><div>> What do you think can be done differently going forwards?</div><div><br></div><div>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 :)</div><div><br></div><div>1. what we did today</div><div>2. what we'll do tomorrow</div><div>3. any questions for the team</div><div><br></div><div>Eg for me today,</div><div><br></div><div>1. I worked on the wiki gardening and learned a bit more about the UX history of Sugar directly from Walter</div><div><br></div><div>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</div><div><br></div><div>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? :)</div><div><br></div><div>(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 :)<br></div><div><br></div><div>> Do you have any questions for the rest of the team?</div><div><br></div><div>Would you like to use Google Hangouts on Air for a weekly meeting, perhaps Monday?</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers</div></div></div><div dir="ltr"><div><div>Dave</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">
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