Can everybody sit back and have a tasty beverage of their choice to celebrate?
On the surface, this email might seem simple. Below the surface this is a turning point in the project. "Actually I'm more interested in what a good dev environment would be in order to contribute." This is exactly what we have been targeting for that last year. A busy deployment support person who doesn't really can about the School Server or its technology. He just cares about how to build on XSCE to meet his specific deployment needs. If, and this is a very big if, we have done a good job designing the XSCE project and the XSCE product, Sebastian will find that it is more effective to do his work as an plug-in-service on XSCE rather than head off in his own. The open source theory behind this the notion of creating a modular and collaborative base which others use to solve their own specific problems. The business theory is that of Lead Users. ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lead_user ) As an upstream, we don't have a complete understanding of users needs and priorities. Working with lead users, enables us to understand and meet their individual needs while gather information to create abstract solutions which apply to other users as well. It looks like 0.5 is coming along nicely. There is a lot of green in the task matrix at http://wiki.laptop.org/go/XS_Community_Edition/0.5/Ansible_Progress . While there are several interesting features at http://wiki.laptop.org/go/XS_Community_Edition/Features for 0.6, there is no cohesive theme to 'unite' us together as a project. I would like to suggest that the theme for 0.6 is making XSCE as easy and desirable as possible for lead users like Sebastian. Much like the initial statement, "Actually I'm more interested in what a good dev environment would be in order to contribute." which seems simple, but is actually a tipping point for the project. Engaging lead users seems simple, yet is rather subtle. On first glace there is: 1. Documentation about the the project and it's technologies. 2. Simple ways to install,test, and develop XSCE. 3. Simple ways to interact with the community and transfer knowledge and technology. More subtly, there are decisions about encapsulation. What does a new developer need to know to get started? What complexity should be hidden and what should be exposed to new developers.... via best practices, APIs, and community processes. The challenge is to create an on-ramp to engage a broader audience at a pace which enables them to use XSCE to meet their needs while avoiding the tendency to create a wall between 'us' them 'them.' On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 11:24 PM, Sebastian Silva <sebast...@fuentelibre.org> wrote: > Thanks that will be simpler. Actually I'm more interested in what a good dev > environment would be in order to contribute. > Do I need to make a fedora chroot? > > Regards, > Sebastian > > El 19/11/13 09:51, Anish Mangal escribió: > > I tried uploading it to xsce.activitycentral.com, but I ran out of space in > my user dir. Normally the appliance is 1.3G, but this also has 400mb of IIAB > test dataset. > > I'll give it another shot in another area where there is some free space, > and get back. > > > On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 7:24 PM, Sebastian Silva <sebast...@fuentelibre.org> > wrote: >> >> Hi >> I tried this but google drive problematic to download from as it requires >> to download from a browser. Not adequate for 1.6gb. Let me know if I can >> pick it up from a regular download place. Why is it so big? >> >> Regards, >> Sebastian >> >> El 17/11/13 20:48, Anish Mangal escribió: >> >>> Download the XSCE Virtualbox appliance from here >>> https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B3eW2YPe6koIVXRVbDhSR0xXQ1U (approx 1.6 GB) >> >> > > > > _______________________________________________ > Server-devel mailing list > Server-devel@lists.laptop.org > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel > -- David Farning Activity Central: http://www.activitycentral.com _______________________________________________ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel