Re: GNOME Women's Outreach 2012 internship idea?

[Tiffany Antopolski <tiffany antopolski gmail com>]

On 2 April 2012 04:56, Taryn Fox <jewelfox fursona net> wrote:

Hello everyone!

Hi Taryn
 

I would like to apply for the 2012 GNOME Outreach Program for Women internship, to help with GNOME documentation if possible. I write for a living and have some web design experience, and would be happy to help anywhere else that those skills are needed instead.
 

I started by talking to Cosimo Cecchi about contributing to GNOME Documents, but then when I started taking the _javascript_ tutorials I noticed a lot of things that I felt could be improved. I have filed a bug report and included a patch, as the people on #docs suggested and helped with, and you can see it at https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=673338

Thank-you for your interest in the Developer Tutorials.  They are currently a work in progress.  Susanna Huhtanen and myself have been slowly chipping away at them, and help is very welcome. I had a look at your patch and accepted the fixes.  Your contribution has been committed to the master branch of gnome-devel-docs.

For a project idea, I would like to learn how to write GNOME applications and create guides that explain what I've learned. In essence, I would like to take the current material at http://developer.gnome.org/gnome-devel-demos/unstable/ and clean it up, add more tutorials, and give new developers a clear path from having only basic knowledge of a programming language to being able to write complete applications (or even help out with GNOME development). I could do this for different languages if needed. I am especially interested in _javascript_, Vala, and Python, in roughly that order.

Your idea is very welcome.  It will need some collaboration with myself, Susannah (cc'd in this e-mail) and any other interns that may be interested in working on the tutorials.

I am open to other suggestions for things that need to be done, or projects that need attention.

I would like to share our ideas with you, but it may be easier to do so on irc.  My nick is 'mimico', and I can be found on #docs, as well as #gnome-women and #gnome-love.  (I am in timezone UTC-5, so although am almost always on the channel, may not always respond right away.)
 

Thank you,

Taryn

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Tiffany Antopolski