[Campus-morris-staff] suggestions for projects?

[Elena Machkasova]

Shauna,

yes, I agree, awesome suggestions, with variety of levels and languages.
Currently we are just collecting ideas here, but mid-week we will put
together a list on a wiki page or some such so that participants and
mentors can choose a project.

We haven't worked with remote projects, and given that we are pretty new at
organizing this event as it is, I would prefer not to step out of our
semi-comfort zone quite yet. We can be more adventurous next year.

BTW, we have 29 students signed up, of various levels (from no background
to seniors).I will send more details about the participants stats later. We
also have 12 mentors. Yay!

Elena

On Mon, Sep 8, 2014 at 2:35 PM, Shauna Gordon-McKeon <shaunagm at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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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