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== Goal #2: practice navigating from the command line ==
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Goal #1: install an IRC client
IRC is a real-time chat protocol that open source projects often use to talk about the project and as a medium for users and developers to help each other.
Note from within CCSF wireless, IRC is blocked by the network administrators. So you should use http://webchat.freenode.net/ instead.
Many of the tools of open source development are primarily used via the command line. Let's get some practice with navigating the computer from the command line.
Goal #3: install git
Git is a popular revision control system that is used by many open source projects. We'll use it during this workshop.
Goal #4: practice using a plain text editor
Make sure you know how to use a plain text editor. We have some text editors that we recommend.
Our suggestions:
Goal #5: (optional) Practice the command line by learning about tar
In this step, you can work through a training mission intended to teach you about how open source projects use the tool tar to create and decompress collections of files.
To work through that, visit:
Success!
You are done with laptop setup!
Take a break, stretch, meet some neighbors, and ask the staff if you have any questions about this material.
Bonus material
Here are some things you can do once laptop setup is over:
- Find and join an IRC channel for something you are interested in.
- on Freenode, try #ubuntu (the Linux distribution), #web (web development), #gsoc (Google Summer of Code)
- You can get a full list of Freenode's channels here
- Learn about Google Summer of Code and look at last year's accepted mentor projects.