in reply to RE: Community Teaching Project
in thread Community Teaching Project

I don't see hosting as being an real issue. With the event of DSL, Cable, et al, I am sure that many project members would be willing to setup a staging area and a production area at home. I would gladly do it on my own machines, but if you try tracerouting any site in Brazil, you'll see that the backbone just makes in inviable. :o/ The offer still stands though. I can spare some space on my P200 (currently running SuSE Linux 6.4 and serving as a firewall / gateway).

What would we need? A dedicated box or just the usual Apache/FTP/SSH/MySQL combo?

What I find hard is pointing out (a) project manager(s). The manager job alone would probably be harder than the coding work.

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RE: RE: RE: Community Teaching Project
by Ozymandias (Hermit) on Jun 15, 2000 at 20:46 UTC
    That's the point of the project. There are, I think, several project managers who hang out here; I am one, I just don't manage development projects much. The idea is to teach developers how project management works, and what it's like to be a part of a "professional" project. Not just a CD and book organizer, although I do kind of like the idea for a number of reasons.

    What I like about this is the possibility for really getting some of the people here involved. We have our fair share of Saints and Gurus; vroom, merlyn, quite a few others who do this for a living or are stars in the Perl community. We also have quite a few who only code for fun, and we have still more who really WANT to work as a developer, but they've never been able to really get started. IRL I like to hire entry-level people for jobs and then actually bring them along to better positions; I've even hired high-school kids as low-end technicians and helpdesk support. This is a chance to do the same in the Perl community.

    - Ozymandias

RE: RE: RE: Community Teaching Project
by xeh007 (Sexton) on Jun 15, 2000 at 21:13 UTC
    As far as organization goes, we could probably go with something as simple as a restrictive CVS setup. Everyone would have an assigned section, and could only do a write lock for code from that section.

    My school has about 5 linux boxes that arent going to be in use at all this summer. It might take a little work, but we could get permission to use one as a dedicated box.

    -Jules Kongslie

    xeh007@yahoo.com

      Hardware's not the problem, I think I can swing that and free bandwidth, besides.

      If anybody's interested, /msg me or jcwren. Let's see who's interested.

      - Ozymandias