[Campus-morris-staff] suggestions for projects?

[Shauna Gordon-McKeon]

These sound like fantastic suggestions.  Are they being gathered somewhere?

Please let us know whether you're interested in having projects with remote
mentors, such as OpenHatch and/or Mozilla, as we'll need to prepare some
tasks and guides as well.

best
Shauna

On Mon, Sep 8, 2014 at 2:21 PM, Joe Einertson <eine0017 at morris.umn.edu>
wrote:

> Making an open source AngularJS directive sounds awesome! I can definitely
> lend some expertise in that area at the event.
>
> -Joe
>
> ----- Reply message -----
> From: "Kristin Lamberty" <lamberty at morris.umn.edu>
> To: <campus-morris-staff at lists.openhatch.org>
> Subject: [Campus-morris-staff] suggestions for projects?
> Date: Mon, Sep 8, 2014 12:59 PM
>
> I _love_ the idea of creating an open source directive for AngularJS. We
> are using the MEAN stack in software design this term! My students have
> just started working on Angular this week (we will have a pre-lab and most
> of a lab done by Saturday).
>
> Cheers,
> KK
>
> On Mon, Sep 8, 2014 at 11:59 AM, Noah Keitel <noahkeitel at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi All,
>> Benjamin and I were also thinking we’d prepare an open source javascript
>> project as well.
>>
>> Currently developers who can work with the MEAN stack (Mongo, Express,
>> Angular, Node) are in high demand and low supply.
>>
>> We were thinking we could give student’s a glimpse of AngularJS by
>> working with or creating an open source directive
>> <https://docs.angularjs.org/guide/directive>. This would provide an
>> encapsulated project which could be finished in a day, while also providing
>> the students an opportunity to have their work get used in other Angular
>> projects.
>>
>> If there are no objections, we’ll get to work on that tomorrow.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Noah
>>
>> On Monday, September 8, 2014 at 11:45 AM, Jim Hall wrote:
>>
>> For students who know PHP, I have also been thinking about cleaning up
>> the FreeDOS News page <http://www.freedos.org/news/> on our website, so
>> I can finally move off the old code, and promote the new News code as the
>> basis of the front page news feed. This will require some refactoring of
>> the existing News code, since it's a little kludgy.
>>
>> It's not very big code (it just displays a news feed, using MagpieRSS as
>> the RSS aggregator) and should be do-able within an hour. I was going to
>> put aside some time eventually to do the cleanup; may as well get help from
>> someone during this weekend's event. [?]
>>
>>
>>
>> Details:
>>
>> The FreeDOS News page should display a feed of all news items from our
>> SourceForge project news RSS, at <
>> http://sourceforge.net/p/freedos/news/feed>. The SourceForge RSS links
>> back to items in the SourceForge news system (no surprise there) but I
>> prefer to have the FreeDOS News page link back to items on the FreeDOS News
>> page. For example, rather than having a FreeDOS News item link to <
>> http://sourceforge.net/p/freedos/news/2014/09/carbonos-based-on-freedos/>
>> it should link to something like <
>> http://www.freedos.org/news/?item=2014/09/carbonos-based-on-freedos/>
>>
>> I wrote code to munge the SourceForge RSS to do this <
>> http://www.freedos.org/news/rss.php> but it was a quick effort, and I
>> never went back to completely update the FreeDOS News page to use the new
>> code. I'm still using a kludge mix of old and new code, so FreeDOS News
>> items aren't actually linking back to the FreeDOS News page.
>>
>>
>>
>> ​jh
>>
>>
>> ​
>>
>> On Sat, Sep 6, 2014 at 6:56 PM, Elena Machkasova <elenam at morris.umn.edu>
>> wrote:
>>
>> Jim,
>>
>> all of this sounds fantastic! We'll have quite a few people who would
>> like to play with cool Java, and it's great to have a documentation-based
>> project for beginners.
>>
>> I was wondering if anyone has anything along the lines of refactoring or
>> writing tests. I would've had this for my Clojure project
>> https://github.com/Clojure-Intro-Course/clojure-intro-class, but my
>> summer research students cleaned up and tested it pretty well. I will try
>> to come up with a couple of simple Clojure tasks, though, for the Racket
>> crowd.
>>
>> Elena
>>
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