Thanks. I'm in the middle of finals week here (two big courses - one with 60 students and one with 80), but late next week I need to get serious about putting material up for my open source source. So let me know as soon as anything is ready and I'll give it a trial run next term. --tim budd
Quoting Greg DeKoenigsberg <[email protected]>: > > We've got a lot of pieces here. We're very close. That's good. > > What we don't yet have is a textbook. That's bad. It's bad because we've > got a trial customer -- Tim Budd, Oregon State -- and no completed > deliverable yet. And we've got two weeks before Tim's class starts. > > I believe that next week will be a crucial week for the textbook effort. > I believe that we should seek to accomplish the following things by the > end of next week: > > 1. Get every chapter to 100% status. Having all exercises completed will > be of particular importance. > > 2. Move this document off of the wiki and into DocBook. > > 3. Get it into version control. > > 4. Make a "release". I'd say this would be release 0.8 or so. :) > > I think we can get it done, but I'll need some help. In particular, these > are the things I'm worried about: > > 1. The "beginner's mind" chapters. Dave and Chris, I think that these are > crucially important -- even if they aren't complete and perfect, we need > something here. I've seen blog posts from both of you that would do in a > pinch. If we want one chapter instead of two, that's fine -- but I think > we need *something*. Need your guidance here -- can we have something > next week? At least something to start from? > > 2. The infrastructure for the basic version control exercises. I know > that Chris set it up, but I honestly haven't even looked at it yet -- but > it'll take some time to make sure that we've got what we need. > > 3. I need DocBook help. I don't know the first thing about it. I know > we've got some folks here who can help with this -- Jared, Sebastian, > Karsten -- and now is the time when your help will be deeply appreciated. > > 4. I'm worried that the whole thing will kinda suck and won't hold > together well -- but I'm always worried about that, and it's certainly no > reason not to finish strong. Besides, that's what we're testing here: can > we build a text like we build software, with alpha and beta releases that > are useful, if imperfect? And we won't know until we do it. > > I'm pretty proud of what we've accomplished so far, but if we don't finish > strong for Tim, I'm worried that we'll miss our first big opportunity for > feedback, and I want to make sure that we do everything we can to capture > this opportunity. > > If you have time to spare next week, send a note to the list reporting for > duty, and let's figure it out. I'll be on #teachingopensource all week > long, looking to complete the push to Glorious Victory. > > --g > > -- > Educational materials should be high-quality, collaborative, and free. > Visit http://opensource.com/education and join the conversation. > _______________________________________________ > tos mailing list > [email protected] > http://teachingopensource.org/mailman/listinfo/tos > Timothy Budd, [email protected], http://www.eecs.oregonstate.edu/~budd _______________________________________________ tos mailing list [email protected] http://teachingopensource.org/mailman/listinfo/tos
