Calagator work session?

[Shawna Scott]

Hi everyone!

After the Calagator unconference session at Open Source Bridge, one of the big next steps was to have a work session Sometime Soon. (If you weren't at the unconference session, you can see the meeting notes here: http://opensourcebridge.org/wiki/2014/Calagator)

I'd like to do that! I'd like to propose Sunday, July 20th from 1-5 PM at Portland Code School (NW 18th & Pettygrove). Is anyone interested/available? Maintainer people, will that work for you?

If so, I propose that before then, some goals would be to:

• File as many issues as possible in as bite-size chunks as possible
• Tag issues according to likely experience level

At the event, it would be awesome if there were a maintainer/more senior person to do an intro session for new contributors, or more junior contributors that would go over a bit of the history of Calagator, and maybe walk through the code on a fairly in-depth level.

I freely admit that this is a new type of event for me personally, and that I'm the new kid on the block, so counter proposals are strongly encouraged. :)

[Reid Beels]

Hi Shawna, 

Thanks for proposing this! I'm tentatively available that day and would be interested in participating, answering questions, and helping people get their bearings.

I'd also like to put out a call for higher-level discussion which might make sense to have before this meeting: a kind of "state of the Calagator", if you will, to talk about where we are with the project and where we're going.

A few things I'd like to discuss:

* What were our goals when Calagator started? What does the Portland community need now?

* How can we make Calagator's UI friendly, responsive, and modern. I'm updating some mockups of my ideas and would welcome discussion and ideas.

* Some potentially-very-useful enhancements exist in divergent forks of Calagator. How can we best integrate these changes?

* How do we make Calagator easy to customize while also keeping things as easy as possible for new contributors?

* What is the current state of the knowledge that a new contributor is likely to have when approaching the project. 

Best,

Reid

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[Shawna Scott]

Sorry for late reply.

I think it would be great to have that discussion, Reid. Is that something you and/or other maintainers want to have first, or would you want others to be involved as well?

What's a good venue, date, and time for that? Maybe a group IRC chat?

I'd be happy to promote July 20th, if there's a consensus about this. If anyone is available that day, even tentatively, please respond here so we can see if there's anyone interested?

[Audrey Eschright]

I was hoping the 20th would work for me, but it turns out there's a Thorns game at 2. 

But if other people are free then, I can catch up later or meet you after. I think a mix of talking about the questions Reid suggested and pair programming or guiding people through ways to contribute could be good. 

Audrey

[Shawna Scott]

I'm also available the 19th or the 26th, if that helps. I'm more than happy to be flexible.

[Reid Beels]

The 26th would work well for me.

[Shawna Scott]

Ok, Audrey said the 26th would work better, so here's the event: http://calagator.org/events/1250466635

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