Talk:Etherpad FAD

The Pitch

Oliners (who don't know Java/Scala/OSS)

Etherpad. You know it, you love it, you miss it. Why don't you come work on it? Thats right, EtherPad is now Open Source software, and it needs some work.

October 8-10th we're hosting a Fedora Activity Day centered around EtherPad. We'll be working on packaging of the software. That covers technologies like J2EE, Scala, server-side-javascript, javascript, release engineering, and more. If any of those sound exciting, we'd like you to learn about it! We invite you to our hacking and to a few "intro sessions" throughout the weekend:

• Friday, October 8th @8pm - Intro to OSS development for Olin Students
• Saturday, October 9th @5pm - Q&A on how EtherPad works; technologies it uses

Java / Scala / JS / Release Engineers

Etherpad is the pinnacle of online, collaborative text editing. If you're not familiar with EtherPad, take a look at this video. Buuut the EtherPad code-base isn't exactly in a packageable state, as demonstrated by SDZ, here. We would like to package EtherPad and package it correctly.

October 8-9th(plus sleepless, greet the 10th nigh session), join us as we dissect EtherPad and mold it into a happy, best-practices following package. We'll get our hands dirty with Scala, build systems, server-side-javascript, and a whole host of other fun technologies. We'll hack along-side European EtherPad contributors, enjoy a delicious Indian brunch, and learn/teach fascinating stuff.

Date

computercolin: Some conflicts:

• Weekend of 15th is family weekend
• Weekend of 22th is admissions open-house
• Weekend of 22th also Ontario Linux Fest
  • 25th is my birthday and I intend to be... busy ;)

computercolin: If we want pre-Ontario, gotta be weekend of Oct 1st or Oct 8th