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• Launchpad Entry: ubuntutheproject-community-n-developer-advocacy

• Created: -- dholbach 2010-11-02 14:27:52

• Contributors: dholbach, persia, jml, duanedesign, czajkowski, kate.stewart

Summary

Release Note

By creating presentation material and featuring common development use-cases we make it easier to reach out to new contributors interested in Ubuntu development.

Rationale

One piece of feedback we get from new contributors at events regularly is "If I had known that it was this easy, I would have got involved much earlier!". We want to create presentation material that makes a solid impression on new contributors and gets them excited.

User stories

Rick wants to give a presentation at a local event. He browses the list of presentations, reads the notes and is up and running quickly.

Daniel wants to give a presentation at a German global jam event. He finds a German presentation, quickly reviews it and is fully prepared.

Implementation

To create the material, we

• first figure out the plot for possible presentations
• identify necessary background material that should be explained

• update the presentations again with that material (ubuntutheproject-community-n-development-outreach-resources should help with that)

• ask proof-readers to double-check
• talk to translators for feedback and translated versions

• will identify overlap between developers and LoCo people and talk to the particular developers about the presentations

• will create a screencast

Test/Demo Plan

During the UDS session we identified proof-readers for the presentations, also will we ask translators for feedback.

BoF agenda and discussion

Who is our audience?
 * Developers new to Ubuntu?
 * People new to development in general?


One suggestion:
  * what is an ideal package?
    * we need to figure out what it is; we don't really have a shared 
      understanding
    * useful to show new Ubuntu developers
    * but maybe the wrong starting point


Common use cases:
 * "I know some stuff, I want to help Ubuntu -- how do I start?"
 * "I am a l33t programmer, how can I get my software packaged?"
 * Ubuntu Development Beginnings wiki https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BeginnersTeam/FocusGroups/Development/Devbeginnings
  On this wiki, cover/link to things like:
    - How to join Launchpad
    - How to create SSH & GPG keys
      * Quickly has work-in-progress to automate this
    - How to get source
    - How to submit a patch
     * how to push back to launchpad
     * How to use Launchpad to propose merging
    - Putting these steps together to fix a bug (ie. link to https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/HowToFix), build, test, submit bug fix
    - How to use Quickly
    - How to install Eclipse (and other IDEs)

Two parts:
 * If you only had an hour to talk to someone who doesn't know *anything* about
   Ubuntu development, what would you say?
 * Actively demonstrate how to fix a bug, or how to work on a package.
  - targetted to a more technical audience, people who roughly now how a 
    distribution works.

Demos:
 - grab source
 - build & run source (without breaking your system)
 - modify the source
 - propose fix for inclusion
 - test case
 
* GNOME/KDE Applet for clicking on a window and having the source downloaded?

introduction material:
 - basically just "how to fix a bug"




 - packages
   - source & binary
 - archive?
 - command line
 - editing text files




how to reach out:
 - put introductory text on ubuntu.com/developer
 - help people get the source and instructions (menu item?, applet?, link in launchpad bug?)
 - presentation material for loco sessions
 - identify overlap between ubuntu developers and loco people

Action items:
persia and jml to work on a demonstration script + notes
dholbach to identify necessary background material
duane to work on screencast
czajkowski to set up a frontdesk for loco + developer interaction
dholbach to work on presentation material
dholbach to ask translators
kate to do neutral read of documentation

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