Campus-ambassadors September 2010

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Re: Oct 8th - Etherpad FAD at Olin College! (Outside Boston, MA)
by Colin Zwiebel 13 Sep '10

13 Sep '10

Hey logistics, marketing, ambassadors, college ambassadors. The Olin College FAD is ON! I'd like to open this invitation to the the wider Fedora community. New to the Fedora community, java-devel is about the only list I can spam, so kindly send this to relevant parties. You have my permission to modify as appropriate. On the Boston side, I would especially like to reach other colleges (MIT? BU? BC? Wellesley? North-Eastern? etc.) Part of those communities or know someone who is, tell me about it! And always, would love to hear thoughts, praise, complaints, hopes and dreams. Cheers, Colin ---------- ---------- [image: ep_fad_poster_x500.png] Oct 8th starting 5pm - Oct 9th We're holding a Hackathon / Fedora Activity Day at Olin College in Needham, MA! Etherpad is open source software for teams to type together on the same document. Join a team of students, alumni, and Fedora Linux hackers as we improve Etherpad for ourselves and the world! Cut to the chase: *http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Etherpad_FAD* == What is EtherPad? == Etherpad is pretty much the pinnacle of online, collaborative text editing. If you're not familiar with EtherPad, take a look at this video<http://www.viddler.com/explore/aaroniba/videos/1/> . == Backstory == EtherPad was acquired by Google in 2008 and the code was open-sourced (yay!). Buuut the EtherPad code-base isn't exactly in a packageable state, as demonstrated by SDZ, here <https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Etherpad>. (SDZ is an Olin student!) Thus we plan to: * Repackage EtherPad in a consistent, portable way, more best-practice form * Create compliant, Fedora packages for EtherPad * Setup EtherPad instance on Fedora Infrastructure (infrastructure managers, sorry, quietly stop choking and shoot me an email so I can explain Fud + EtherPad = awesome and discuss how to go about that) * Teach non-Propeller-heads about OSS development and the technologies used == When? == ** *Friday, October 8th - Saturday, October 9th* ** (and maybe early Sunday if we get some of the no-sleep crowd). Dinner on Friday. Dinner and lunch Saturday. Can attend in person? Remotely join us! See the wiki<https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Etherpad_FAD#I.27m_far_away_.2F_can.27t_phys…> . == Us ? == Andy, Sebastian and I are Olin College students and long-time linux users, and total EtherPad fanboy. We would love to give back to all three of these communities and help people get involved in open source software. Finally, there is generally just a lot of cool technical stuff inside EtherPad? Server-side-JS? Scala? Comet? Collaborative diffing? Web-service architecture? Your totally welcome to come and geek out on these topics, and maybe learn a thing or two about how EtherPad works. Check us out on the wiki and twitter: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Etherpad_FAD http://twitter.com/olinetherpadfad Cheers, Colin, Sebastian, Andy P.S. You've probably never heard of Olin College, but you should totally look at the crazy higher-ed experiment we're running: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olin_college

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Organizing FAD outside Boston -- October 8th -- Thoughts on
by Colin Zwiebel 02 Sep '10

02 Sep '10

Ambassadors, I'm organizing a FAD on EtherPad for October. This totally uncharted territory, so its exciting and kinda crazy. Planning is going on here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Etherpad_FAD Why am I writing you? I need to find some more serious Java/build system/packaging people for the event. The FAD purpose is going to require some Ant/Maven work, some Java project refactoring, some best-practices Java-fedora packaging. I've emailed java-devel, but no luck so far. Do you have skillz? Do you live near Boston? Are you that awesome propeller head person I need? Do you /know/ that awesome Java person I need? Contact me! Its gonna be great! Campus people, Anyone from BC, BU, MIT, Harvard, Wellesley? Know some Fedora hackers or J2EE people. The event in general is totally open, and I'd love have students from all surrounding colleges come (so we should talk more). But for now, I'm really looking to pull in some strong Java/Ant/Maven/packaging people for organizational purposes. Know someone? Any LUGs I should be pinging? Colin P.S. You've probably never heard of Olin College, but you should totally look at the crazy higher-ed experiment we're running: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olin_college

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