User:Ezimmer

Latest revision as of 10:08, 7 February 2017

Ellen Zimmer is a faculty member in the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science at Edinboro University in Pennsylvania. She is actively involved in Computer Science curriculum development and assessment, chairing the department Computer Science Curriculum Committee. The courses she generally teaches include: the three semester programming sequence, Operating Systems and Web Development. In addition to teaching and curriculum development she is also the Computer Science Internship Coordinator for the department.

Outside university activities include spending time with her children, Alyssa (22), Kim (18), and Cole (11). She also loves fishing, hiking and household renovation projects.

Project Anatomy Activity:

Sugar Labs Project

Teams:

- all three teams have an IRC channel & coordinators.

- other related contacts are listed either as contributors, people, or editors

- Only the activity and doc. team have mailing lists

Bug Tracker:

- Types: defect or enhancement

- Category is determined by the type, component milestone, and OS distribution (I think)

Repository:

- Gitorious.com: git hosting at your company (I am not sure what is meant by web-based vs local)

Release Cycle:

- roadmap is updated at the end of each release cycle

Sahana Eden Project

Community:

- I actually liked this set up better. For developers they had specific step by step guide, for testers it was a bit more confusing but given some time I am sure it would make more sense. Designers was simply organized into User Interface Tasks & Project Tasks. The Sugar Labs Project was much more poluted with information and links. I like the simplier organization.

Bug Tracker:

- The tickets are organized by report instead of by severity as they seemed to be at the Sugar Labs project - tickets have a summary, component,version, priority, type, owner, status, creation date

Repository:

- Web2Py is a python webframework. I am not sure I understand the significance of local vs. web repos.

BLOG Activity (incorporates answers to FOSS FIELD TRIP activity):my blog

FOSS Use in Course Activity #1: Project: GNOME Accessibility Project Course: Open Source Software Development - 1 credit course

topics: ideas for additions to GCompris (an educational software for children 2 to 10)- somehow connected to GNOME?

topics: projects for Project possibility (Software collaboration for users with disabilities) - somehow connected to GNOME?

topic: GNOME system monitor (GNOME process viewer and system monitor) - C++ primarily

topic: GNOME Grilo (framework that provides access to different sources of multimedia content) - C primarily

topic: ATK - Accessibility (interfaces, accessibility tools have full access to view and control running applications) - C primarily

GNOME Accessibility - roadmap is a year old, under "posted opportunities" - there are none.

 - I spent more than 7 hours traversing, reading, re-reading, accessing, following up on, looking up projects
 - Could not seem to find anything that worked - either language, scope, not related to accessibility or humanities (in my opinion)
 - Very frustrated with this so far
 - Spending an extremely large amount of time when estimate is 60 minutes!

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