Mondays is good for me too, though sadly I won't be able to attend the IRC meeting this wed(18th May) due to an prior family commitment.
On Sun, May 15, 2016 at 10:13 PM Eli Heuer <[email protected]> wrote: > I think a weekly Google Hangouts on Air is a great Idea! Monday works for > me, I'm looking forward to it. > > My responses to dave's questions: > > > How have you found the experience so far? > > Wonderful! I'm new to free-software having primarily worked in the video > game industry previously. Being new, I've had to do lots of work/reading to > ramp up, but I feel like the learning that is happening is invaluable and > I'm looking forward to seeking out other free-software projects to work on > after this. > > > What did you like? > > I'm very interested in learning more about how font editors are built so I > couldn't be more excited about this project. I'm looking forward to testing > the software and designing some fun fonts with it! > > > What do you think can be done differently going forwards? > > I'd like it if we had a more concrete idea of what we are building, my > hope is that next week we can work on this (more mocks and critique, so we > can hit the ground running at the end of the bonding period). I'm going to > be very adamant that the UX is fun and easy to use. Also, personally I want > to do a better job sharing thoughts and ideas and asking more questions. > > I like the format of dave's three questions, I'll do my best to post these > daily. > > 1. what we did today > 2. what we'll do tomorrow > 3. any questions for the team > > 1. I'm at the wiki gardening meeting going through as much of the wiki as > I can and learning about the culture/people of SugarLabs. I also learning > more about Jekyll and wiki editing workflow. > > 2. I want to keep working on learning how to make GTK mockups for sugar, > this is going a little slow for me but I'm getting there. > > 3. Why will the font editor be fun to use and/or am I wrong to think it > should be fun?! > > > On Sun, May 15, 2016 at 12:25 AM Dave Crossland <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> Hi Yash, Eli, Harshita and sugar-devel >> >> We're well into the GSOC community bonding period, so now is a good time >> to do a review of ourselves. I guess a few quick/simple self evaluation >> questions might be, >> >> How have you found the experience so far? >> >> What did you like? >> >> What do you think can be done differently going forwards? >> >> Do you have any questions for the rest of the team? >> >> >> >> >> >> Here are my quick responses :) >> >> > How have you found the experience so far? >> >> Good! :) I think things are going a little slowly but I think its >> important to spend time reading about the existing libraries/formats and >> this takes time... :) >> >> > What did you like? >> >> I loved how you all have been really good about being present at the tri >> weekly meetings we agreed! >> >> > What do you think can be done differently going forwards? >> >> I'd like to see more questions from you all, and to see more work in >> progress, so to action that I'd like to request a short and simple blog >> post (or email to this thread) with 3 simple things (3 lines :) >> >> 1. what we did today >> 2. what we'll do tomorrow >> 3. any questions for the team >> >> Eg for me today, >> >> 1. I worked on the wiki gardening and learned a bit more about the UX >> history of Sugar directly from Walter >> >> 2. I'll work on the wiki gardening more, and hope to be online in >> #sugar-meeting 10am-3pm :) I have some more UX notes written on paper that >> I'll snap photos of and post on the blog >> >> 3. Would you each be wililng to post a 3-liner like this every day you >> work on the project as you are wrapping up the work-session? :) >> >> (I also invite you to chat about anything you feel stuck about on the >> #sugar channel, which isnt logged, or via IM (gmail chat), if you'd like to >> ask about anything you wouldn't feel totally comfortable with logging on >> #sugar-meeting :) >> >> > Do you have any questions for the rest of the team? >> >> Would you like to use Google Hangouts on Air for a weekly meeting, >> perhaps Monday? >> >> Cheers >> Dave >> >> >>
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