Drumbeat/p2pu/Summit2010brainstorm

P2PU School of Webcraft Session

Suggestions – Google Summer of Code (what do they look for) also to encourage SoW participants to apply
Internships – as above – ask the Mozilla internship program

How to be credible and respected as an accreditation provider?

Present: Gunner, Adam Hyde, Richard , Gregorio?. Nathan, Pedro

• Tell Stories showing success (eg employment offers, projects begun, internships, contracts received, use as prior learning in formal edu environments)
  
• Be clear about how assessment works
  
• Luddites within institutions – beware of these.
  
• Admin / non teaching staff will be most resistant
  
• Teachers will be supportive
  
• Organise for formal mentoring (i.e. a dedicated mentor)
  
• look at how Red Hat provide cert.
  
• Primary target audience should be employers
  
• Easy to show results with project based work, how to assess theory based learning??
  
• Track people as a way of finding stories
  
• extension of community of practice (community of success)
  
• Look at Comptia?
  
• Try to organise a jobs fair
  
• Mozilla needs to hire alumni  or Redhat – google, major company  (eating the pudding we made)
  
• Look at External Testers and proctor services
  
• LPI.NET (dave sefry)
  
• infrastructure
  
• linux sys admin
  
• Look at Free software – is the freeness of this going to affect our credibility?
  
• Quality
  
• economic transformation (focus on Nathan's audienc)
  
• Need to be able to update their credentials
  
• How do we encourage quality facilitators
  
• measurement? Metrics?
  
• Evaluation help?
  
• Students need to be active about recording what they learn – reflective based practice
  
• blog about it – hash tags
  
  

Soft and personal attributes of rockstar developers

present:
Xander, Noelle, Carlos?, Guillermo

• Delegation
  
• Community Engagement
  
• Communication Skills
  
• Bedside Manners
  
• “onramping”
  
• Managing the politics of a project
  
• negotiation
  
• tie breaking (moving out of deadlock)
  
• Team building - ie the right people at the right place
  
• Asynchronous tasking and communication (*SoW relies on this – they'll drop out otherwise*)
  
• Blogging – evangalism and documentation
  
• Passionate
  
• Able to mentor others.
  

big takeaways:

• If someone has begun and run an open source project (with more than two people contributing) of their own they'll have done all of this
  
• perhaps this can be a “graduate” course – something longer than 6 weeks which is mentored over 6 months or a year?
  

What Technical skills and theory?

participants:  Paul Osman, Tantek Çelik, (Didn't catch the names of other attendees, add yourself!)

• HTML
  
• Microformats
  
• Javascript (jquery, prototype)
  
• CSS
  
• Text Editors
• Server management
• ­Updating a server
• basic server administration (minimal)
  • .htaccess (HTTP)
  • Database Theory – to admin level
• Categories
  • Client side
  • Server Side
• UI Design
• ux / accessibility/ usability
• SVG
• Canvas
• OOP / Functional / Procedural / Layering Best practices
• Web Services
• Adaptive Media (Mobile and Print)
  

Takeaways

The most important thing I took away from this was to filter courses that were based on dying technologies / poorly supported tech. eg SOAP, RSS

Course Ideas

participants: Daniela, Austin... who else (hopefully they use the website) Atul

• Web Service Dev w Python
  • Entry level python – basic HTTP, request response
  • REST!
• How to make cool stuff on the web if you never programmed
  • no complications
  • big deal for nondev who need to know it
• Open Software Ethics
  • Community Driven Process
  • Openness all around
  • Be Open Minded
• How to Design the Web – changing websites with stuff you create
  • Photoshop
  • Web Style
• User Experience / Interface
  • The user is important!
  • Happy Users
  • More Users
  • Wise
• Dive Deep into JS Jquery, Jetpack SDK
  • Show what we (mozilla) can do
  • powerful tech
  • developers
  • How to communicate with your manager about technical issues
  • Effective change, less trouble at work
  • Willing to collaborate