[squeakland] edu meeting notes May 27

[Rita Freudenberg]

We started talking about Squeakfest preparations, where we have work  
to do: go for funding, spread the word about the call for  
presentations, invite people, prepare flyers, think about give-aways  
etc. Since this is more business-related we will schedule another  
meeting for that topic. Everyone who wants to help with the  
preparations is invited to join us!

Next we talked about the idea of "artefacts" in Etoys, where we have  
slightly different feelings about. We agree that it is part of the job  
of the education team to look closely on new ideas to give advice and  
discuss it. With new Etoys versions, we can do "house cleaning",  
remove unused objects etc. There are things we discovered while  
writing the Etoys reference manual, we will make our notes there and  
before a new release look at them and react. To communicate this to  
the developers, we will use jira, and on next meeting spend some time  
figuring out how.

Randy gave us more feedback on Rico's work and more improtant, asked  
for feedback for his next milestone. We will invite him for our next  
meeting and talk especially about Input/Output of Data From/To Files.

Find more on the wiki:

http://wiki.squeakland.org/display/sq/2010/05/27/education+meeting+May%2C+27+2010

Rita Freudenberg

rita at isg.cs.uni-magdeburg.de