Hi Scott, Thanks for the introduction! A couple of things...
We have an irc channel at #opencast on irc.freenode.net. I saw you joined, great! You should create an account on our JIRA issue tracker at opencast.jira.com. This is where we track all of our issues and their status. It's good practice to put all of your tasks in here, and when you have finished a task you can attach a patch file to it and assign the task to a committer to review (myself, or someone else on the project who is knowledgeable in the area). There are a couple of good activities you should start with to learn how Matterhorn works. First, our wiki has alot of info on it, but I recommend checking out the work practices in particular (http://opencast.jira.com/wiki/display/MH/Work+Practices) as well as the release docs that we make available to end users (http://opencast.jira.com/wiki/display/MH/Trunk). This will give you an idea of how to setup a dev environment and what end users are expecting. Your project has both user facing portions and back end, and a consistent user interface is important to us. We're growing in this area as a team, but you might find the balsamiq mockup tool on our wiki particularly helpful. And last but not least, we have developer meetings every tuesday at 9:00 gmt-6. We host them online in big blue button: matterhorn.bigbluebutton.org/matterhorn (the password is "welcome"). It would be great to have you join, I'll be missing the next but the whole team is very friendly so please pop in and say hi. If you want to start putting tasks in jira with respect to your project I'd be happy to review them and leave some comments. Regards, Chris > Hi all, > > cab938 said to introduce myself on list, so here I am. My name's > Scott, I'm at 2nd yr. MSc student at the U of S. I'll be working on > an HTML5 student data visualizer, with Chris as a mentor. > > Here's to a good, productive summer, > -Scott -- Christopher Brooks, BSc, MSc ARIES Laboratory, University of Saskatchewan Web: http://www.cs.usask.ca/~cab938 Phone: 1.306.966.1442 Mail: Advanced Research in Intelligent Educational Systems Laboratory Department of Computer Science University of Saskatchewan 176 Thorvaldson Building 110 Science Place Saskatoon, SK S7N 5C9 _______________________________________________ Matterhorn mailing list [email protected] http://lists.opencastproject.org/mailman/listinfo/matterhorn To unsubscribe please email [email protected] _______________________________________________
