CCSF OSCC notes

Saturday, June 29, 2013

Broken links

http://www.smogon.com/irc/xchat_tutorial

 from https://openhatch.org/wiki/Open_Source_Comes_to_Campus/CCSF/Laptop_setup/Windows_IRC
 changed to http://web.archive.org/web/20080704192501/http://www.smogon.com/irc/xchat_tutorial

http://www.smogon.com/irc/colloquy_tutorial

 from https://openhatch.org/wiki/Open_Source_Comes_to_Campus/CCSF/Laptop_setup/OSX_IRC -- "getting started with Colloquy"
 changed to http://web.archive.org/web/20120608000741/http://www.smogon.com/irc/colloquy_tutorial

10am-ish - git session (tlevine/tom)

while sorting males and weeping floors, presenter tried to say "look at this link on irc" and then discovered that about a fourth of the people weren't on IRC yet. we all paused to make sure everyone was on irc.

make a patch, use diff -u
- "separate people made these two changes. they both sent them to the developer (the main committer on the todo list)."

code.google.com , showed us some bugs he submitted and told us little stories

IRC fun - /nick. /help doesn't work in webchat. /join #sunlightlabs and talking to people (hi jeremyb). and /part. and /msg.

10:45ish - git session (marktraceur/mark)

right before it, i got everyone to stand up and eat a donut to give mark time to switch out his computer, but then he switched out his computer really fast and everybody kept talking for a while. the break seemed to be good, and got participants to talk to each other.
how do you keep track of changes in a distributed software editing community? talked a bit about wikipedia as an example.
showed a diff for the wikipedia page in ccsf
- question: if you delete it, can you get it back? great question because this illustrates why version control is great -- you can always get stuff back
mentioned gitorious, svn, github, mercurial, and more ... then independent code hosting sites (wikimedia has our own) ...
talked about differences between editing on wikipedia and using something like git (being online.... same edits...)
german legislature example. white house open data stuff. city of chicago.