[Events] GNOME newcomers tutorial

[Marina Zhurakhinskaya]

Hi all,

Asheesh suggested that I e-mail the list about the newcomers tutorial
I created for the GNOME Boston Summit newcomers events last weekend.

https://live.gnome.org/NewcomersTutorial

This tutorial was very much inspired by the OpenHatch setup
instructions, missions and workshops!

The goal of the tutorial is to walk someone through the process of
contributing a patch to GNOME. It has setup instructions for the tools
used during the tutorial and, thanks to Owen Taylor, instructions for
setting up a virtual machine with a provided Fedora 18 image in case
people don't have a recent system with GNOME. Matthias Clasen created
a dedicated newcomers-tutorial module in GNOME git and product in
Bugzilla. The code is a simple JavaScript program that, when you run
it, has a few obvious bugs. Then the tutorial walks you through
cloning the git repository, running the program, fixing a bug in the
code, creating a patch, uploading it to Bugzilla, and applying and
reviewing someone else's patch.

You can see the bugs that were filed and reviewed by the attendees here:
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/buglist.cgi?product=newcomers-tutorial

It'd be great if we can integrate that tutorial in OpenHatch or use it
at the workshops where participants learn to contribute to various
FOSS projects (particularly in cities where we can have a few GNOME
volunteers come to the event).

Thanks and ideas welcome :)!
Marina