I've spoken with Josh K of the Drupal Dojo group (which, if you don't know about it, definitely go check it out -- it's like interactive peer-tutoring but so much cooler ;)). He's given me permission to hijack the Sunday, May 27 session slot to do a Q&A session for the Summer of Code students, to answer any questions you folks have before Summer of Code officially kicks off the next day!
The session will start at 11am PDT (California), which is (apparently) 2PM in NYC, 8PM in Hungary, 10PM in Moscow, and 11:30 PM in Sri Lanka (sorry :). It will go on for about 2 hours (or until we run out of steam). The session will also be recorded (both audio and screen) for those who can't make it. Others are more than welcome to show up too (I'm sure the information discussed will be valuable to a lot of folks), but I'd like this to be a session specifically geared toward getting our GSoCers up to speed.
So, what I need to know from folks is a list of questions/clarifications/general topics they'd like covered in this session. Long ago, in a kingdom far away, we came up with an outline as follows: http://docs.drupaldojo.org/getting-started-with-drupal-development ... anything in particular here (or that you've come across in the last few weeks) that grabs your fancy? We can walk you through parts of core, talk about higher-level API stuff, get into community history, explain how to use CVS, or just about anything else you can think of. :)
I'd like to hammer out a tentative agenda sometime towards the end of next week, so please comment and let me know what you'd like to see covered! Also, if as many mentors/students as possible could make it to this session, we could have a nice little introduction thing at the beginning. :)
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Thanks to webchick for posting this. I really hope the Drupal Dojo can be of help to the SoC participants. We are building a sustainable community of learning around the platform, so feel free to join us in #drupal-dojo anytime and cross post to the drupal-dojo group as appropriate.
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Awesome initiative, Angie
Yes, the Drupal Dojo is a great thing, and I can highly recommend everyone check it out. This session will probably be interesting for non-GSoC'ers too, so if you're a dojo addict, make sure to join us.
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this would be an all-in skype conference? or like a usual dojo session, we asking questions via IRC? Should we suggest topics here, or to you directly?
I'm thinking like a normal dojo session...
so that we can screencast things as we're going through as opposed to just talking about it. So Skype + VNC + IRC.
And for topics, here is fine, or else if you don't feel comfortable, you can e-mail me directly too. But don't be shy. ;) Better to suggest topics now than to determine too late that you don't know something you need to know. :)
suggestions, what im interested in
Me shy? Never :)
A suggestion: because of these idiot timezones, and that bloody gas ball up there the students from the right-hand half of the world will be tired. so maybe we could start discussing questions they are interested in first, so they dont drop off in the middle of the session still waiting for their questions to be answered.
Since I am going to write an API contrib module, i would like to know more about the programming philosophy, approach behind such a module. I saw that there is a dedicated chapter for this on the dojo page, but its .. well not entirelly finished.
Also to be honest I am not a master of OOP, nor PHP. I navigate myself around fairly well, but bleeding edge features of PHP5 are not my area of experise. I read someone mentioning good xml parsing features present in PHP5, I would like to hear a professional on that if possible. This might fall into the category of RTFM, if i get forwarded towards good literature thats fine too (though even the drupal pro book got probably sucked by the black hole of our national post :().
Maybe some introduction how GD is now used?
PHP5 is cool!
I suppose I could talk about PHP5 some. I really enjoy using it and it has some awesome features.
cool
a chairde,
that would be really great!
Awesome, thanks!
And yes, the later it is where you are, the sooner your topics should be covered, imo. :)
I don't know much (read: anything ;)) about GD, so I'll try and hunt down another person to be there who could give an intro/answer questions.
I can host skype for this SOC lesson
I will be available to host this week's Skypecast. I have a setup which reads IRC questions directly over the 'cast so they get heard by everyone and recorded into the video as well.
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