[Bf-committers] meetings for new developers

[Campbell Barton]

this was discussed at bconf and one of the meetings after, with
general approval.
We can communicate that they can to log into #blendercoders any time.
I'm willing to give this a try, if it doesn't work - so be it.

On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 10:21 AM, joe <joeedh at gmail.com> wrote:
> I dunno.  What's wrong with just asking people to pop into IRC and bug
> people every couple of hours until someone who knows shows up? :)
>
> This seems too over-structured to work.  Getting people to show up for
> the premeeting will be a pain.  Personally, I'd prefer people felt
> comfortable asking questions in IRC anytime, or emailing the mailing
> list.  With this, people may get the impression they should only ask
> their questions in the once-a-month new-developers meeting.
>
> Perhaps it'd be better to have a mailing list dedicated to asking
> questions about the code?
>
> Joe
>
> On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 1:17 AM, Campbell Barton <ideasman42 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Recently it was suggested that we could have meetings for new
>> developers involved, heres some suggestions as to how I think it can
>> work.
>>
>> - not too frequently, this takes energy from developers and time to
>> set the topic and communicate whats going on.
>> - each meeting have a topic - this can at least be a starting point.
>> 2.5/BGE/MeshEditing/Modifiers/Sculpting/Rendering/Sequencer/Physics....
>> etc.
>> - Need at least 1 dev experienced in this area to show up.
>> - Would be great if blender nation would post a week or so before the
>> meeting, can show on blender.org also.
>> - Having someone to take notes and post would be good too.
>>
>> * Who might be interested *
>> - technical users who want to know more about blenders internals
>> - people who are interested in how blender is developed
>> - anyone afraid to ask 'stupid' questions on the ML or normally on IRC.
>>
>> * Please don't *
>> - use this as an excuse to bombard others with feature requests
>> - complain about blender only to 'motivate' others to fix ;)
>> - expect to learn specific areas eg: OpenGL, Python, C... there are
>> plenty of online resources.
>>
>> (this should be worded more nicely)
>>
>> ----------------
>>
>> Proposal
>> - First Sunday of every month, 1 or 2 hr's before the normal developer meeting.
>> - start the first meeting after beta0 release
>> - first topic can be 2.5 - (macro's operators, rna, python etc),
>> further topics can be set on the ML.
>> - post on b.org, maybe blendernation too.
>>
>> Who does what?
>> - me: arrange to have this posted on b.org assign topic, try make sure
>> specific devs can be online.
>> - (anyone?): run the meeting, keep on topic.
>> - (anyone?): record meeting log.
>>
>> --
>> - Campbell
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- Campbell