On 06/09/2013 08:45 AM, Kaustav Das Modak wrote: > On Sunday 09 June 2013 11:59 AM, Satabdi Das wrote: >> As suggested by Sumana earlier, we are trying out a dry run of the >> online git workshop today 2:30pm-4:30pm iST (UTC+5:30). >> >> Joyoti, a friend of mine, volunteered to act as a participant. She is >> interested to learn git and is on M$. >> >> Please join on #wfs-india if you are interested. >> >> Thanks, >> Satabdi >> > > The demo run began at 2:40pm IST and ended at 4:43m IST. Satabdi, > Tarashish and me conducted the demo run. Thanks Joyoti, Sweta and Nikita > for volunteering for this demo run. All volunteer participants today > were on MS Windows. > > We could cover only till "git log" and skip to "git clone". See > https://wfs-india.etherpad.mozilla.org/8 for the steps. > > > Here is my report: > > 0. Mentors: > Step 1, 2, 3 -> Kaustav > Step 4 -> Satabdi > Step 5, 6, 8 (partially) -> Kaustav > > 1. Timings: > Step 1: estimated 15 mins | took 19 minutes > Step 2+3: estimated 25 mins | took 23 minutes > Step 4: estimated 10 mins | took 38 minutes > Step 5: estimated 10 mins | took 19 minutes > Step 6: estimated 5 mins | took 5 minutes > Step 8 (git clone only): estimated ~ 10 mins | took 8 mins > > 2. The biggest time-crunch we faced was in helping participants to > install and configure git. We will need a documentation which will help > participants, particularly those on MS Windows to effectively install > and configure git before the attend the workshop. Msysgit is a good > client with a mini-bash shell for Windows. > > 3. Further time lag was a result of participants arriving late, and > mentors having to recap what had already been discussed, including > installing git. This will certainly not be the case of the actual workshop. > > 4. Participants were not "muted". They did not use the classbot, but > seemed more comfortable in using the #wfs-india-questions room to ask > their questions. Tarashish actively helped participants with their setup > related issues on #wfs-india-questions. Not muting the channel resulted > in a more-interactive session, but we could not progress much with the > syllabi. > > 5. Mentors will need to study basics of msysgit to aid participants on > MS Windows. > > 6. Step 4 took almost 4 times the time allotted, but I think it can be > fine tuned heavily if the mentor writes out each step of the commands, > including text editor options, and describes what each command does > immediately after asking participants to type it in. However, time > allotment for Step 4 needs to be 20 minutes at least, so that first time > users get to wrap their head around the commandline and using a text > editor from the commandline. The default editor in msysgit is vi, which > needs a good deal of help for the uninitiated. > > Thanks. >
I thank the mentors and planners of this workshop strongly for doing the dry run, learning lessons from it, and iterating! Much appreciated! -- Sumana Harihareswara Engineering Community Manager Wikimedia Foundation _______________________________________________ WFS-India mailing list [email protected] Message archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Unsubscribe: To unsubscribe, please login to your account at http://www.wfs-india.org/ and unsubscribe to the WFS-India list from your account settings. -- WFS-India - http://www.wfs-india.org
