[OSDC Israel] Workshops

[Meir Kriheli]

Amir E. Aharoni wrote:
> (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.

You can write them in many languages (assuming you have the correct
bindings installed). I wrote in the past a 2 part tutorial (Hebrew)
about writing a python plug-in for the gimp:

http://whatsup.org.il/article/4374
http://whatsup.org.il/article/4416

> 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.

Cheers
--
Meir Kriheli
http://mksoft.co.il