[OPA-devel] RE: HELP WANTED: Someone to demo SourceForge.net forsomeGovernment folk

[Joseph P. <Jos...@pw...>]

Thanks Peter, I'm informing the others in my original request in the =
event they may wish to participate, or at least, for their info.  I'm =
also c.c.ing key or prospective OPA dev team members to get this out =
immediately, given the short notice.  A more formal invitation and =
agenda will follow, which will be the better one to forward to your =
colleagues. Note: If any of you have specific preferences what to =
include in this informal tutorial, please advise asap.

Andr=E9e, can you arrange for us to do this under KES in the same room =
we used for the ZOPE & PostNUKE presentations earlier this month for =
GoL?  7 Feb, 10am-12noon.

Re:  Question: are you using WinCVS or command-line CVS on Linux?
We'll take your advice, but the team should be aware of the advantages =
and limitations of WinCVS.

~Joseph=20

-----Original Message-----
From: Peter Bojanic [mailto:pe...@bo...]
Sent: Thursday, January 30, 2003 3:11 PM
To: Joseph Potvin
Cc: Russell McOrmond
Subject: RE: HELP WANTED: Someone to demo SourceForge.net
forsomeGovernment folk


On Thu, 2003-01-30 at 14:56, Joseph Potvin wrote:
> Peter -- First, I did consciously mean to include you in the original
> email request, but got side-tracked prior to clicking "send".  Your
> help would be great -- and your clear public speaking style that I saw
> at the OSW would be excellent!  =20

I'm glad to be able to support another Open Source project team. It's
especially cool that you're also in the same geographic community.

> Re: Do you already have a presenter or are you looking for one?=20
> Yes we need one, somebody who is quite familiar with the project
> management side of SF, and can orient would-be OPA collaborators to
> get up and running as bona fide GoC open source hackers in a short
> time.=20

OK. I can take the lead. As you mentioned, there may be other
experienced SF developers present, which will round out our discussion
nicely.

> Re:  Let me know what is required.
> The core attendees are "technical".  We'll need to structure the
> roles, however. An administrator's tour of the Back-End project site
> would be great.  Mark Faul, Sara Kerr are the technial leads on the
> OPA dev team, I'm lead architect, so it would be great if you could
> show us (using the OPA site itself, perhaps) what we need to do to use
> the SF features.=20

Sounds good.

> A careful stepthrough of how developes and administrators use the
> version manager CVS at SF is useful.

Question: are you using WinCVS or command-line CVS on Linux? I'm more
familiar with the latter, but can probably win it if you've got WinCVS
available.

> I'm thinking a two-hour tutorial.  A conventional slide presentation
> is not needed.  Just start off by talking informally about your
> experience with SF, what you like and may not like about it.  Then
> give us a tour.  It need not be complete, as there's probably more
> functionality in SF than we need to engage for now, no?

OK. That makes it pretty easy because I won't have to prepare much.

>=20
> Other experienced SF people might be there to offer additional
> insights.
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> Do you think this would work?  Would you handle it differently? =20

Sounds good, Joseph. If it's a small group we can keep it very informal
and handle Q&A as we go along.

Fri, Feb 7 at 10am? Where shall I meet you?

Cheers,
Peter

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Peter Bojanic <pe...@bo...>      |  Phone: (613) 762-5376
Open Source Consulting & Development  |  Ottawa, Ontario CANADA=20