[OSDC Israel] Workshops

[Amir E. Aharoni]

(whoops - my last reply was sent directly to Shlomi and not to the
list. Sorry if you receive it twice)

> > My proposal: Organize workshops that show people how they can set up
> > on their computers a development environment for an open source
> > project.
>
> We can do similar demonstrations for some (existing) Mozilla Plugins, GIMP
> plugins, Web-based apps, etc. The question of course is what prior knowledge
> we should assume.

For Gimp, i can't think of any prior knowledge, because i don't have
any - i don't know Jack about graphics and nothing about Lisp either
(IIRC, Gimp's scripting language is Lisp-based). But then, a workshop
on extending Gimp to make pretty pictures prettier can serve as a fun
introduction to Lisp.

For Perl and CPAN - don't assume anything beyond knowledge of Perl
syntax. I would even go as far as to say: don't assume *any* knowledge
about packages and modules, except, maybe, the `use' keyword.

The same for Java and C. Don't assume that people are familiar with
Cygwin, GCC flags, CVS etc. One may argue that intoducing people to
GCC, for example, will take a lot of time, but that's the whole point
of the workshop - to show that open source development teams are not
ivory towers and to welcome coders into the bazaar.