This sounds like a great idea! On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 10:46 PM, Robert Newson <[email protected]>wrote:
> Happy to help out if time zones line up, excellent project! > > Sent from my iPad > > On 25 Nov 2011, at 22:39, Joan Touzet <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hello CouchDB Developers, > > > > Based on an informal survey of CouchDB users who are interested in > > contributing to the project, two key items tend to hold people back: > > > > 1. Knowing Erlang (and the CouchDB coding style) > > 2. Knowing the CouchDB code base > > > > So I decided to further my own grad research in Education, and > > contribute back to CouchDB, by volunteering to coordinate a class for > > 6-20 students. > > > > ** I'd like to propose an Introduction to CouchDB Programming course, > > kicking off January 5, 2012, and ask for support from the current devs > > on this list. > > > > This won't be a traditional classroom course! Students themselves will > > be shaping the direction of the course, the topics covered, and will be > > expected to lead at least one week of online discussion. (I'll be > > providing the pedagogical framework for this Collaborative Learning > > model. This is my area of active research.) > > > > The idea is that, by the end of course (10 weeks or so), participants > > will have learned enough Erlang to have basic competency, and enough > > about the CouchDB code base to contribute. The "final exam" would be > > completing and submitting some number of patches from the outstanding > > bin of bugs in JIRA. > > > > ** I NEED YOUR HELP in two ways: > > > > A. Suggestions for good reference material (e.g. learnyousomeerlang) > > B. Volunteers from the current devs to conduct a "guided tour" of > > 1 or more parts of the code > > > > The "guided tours" are the essential bits for this class to be > > successful, and I'd like them as much as possible to be accurate and > > accessible to newbs. These tours could take many forms: > > > > * A screencast of you talking about some code, e.g. ScreenFlow > > * A live walkthrough over Adobe Connect video (time donated by my > > University dep't for the class) > > * IRC-based runthrough > > * "Ask the developer" - respond to questions about code on the class > > forum > > * You fly everyone out to your house for dinner :) Etc. > > > > ** If you're willing to help out, please reply on or off list and let me > > know. Let's grow the contributor community! > > > > All the best, > > Joan Touzet (Wohali) > > > > -- > > Joan Touzet | [email protected] | wohali most other places >
