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I'm a professor at Meredith College in Raleigh. We do a real CS major, but there's only two of us teaching, so I wear many hats.

I'm not happy with the Evaluating Mifos assignment yet. I wrote a big whiny entry here, then I erased it. My general complaint is that, the noobie-access material/instructions is not noobie enough. I don't know the buzzwords, the tools. I get on SourceForge and there's 100 things to click on, and 100 things from each of those, and I'm lost. I guess that's what this workshop is for ... we'll plow through that initial barrier, hopefully, and get to a point where I can find a few hooks to get into a project.

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 of us teaching, so I wear many hats.
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+I'm not happy with the Evaluating Mifos assignment yet.  I wrote a big whiny entry here, then I erased it.  My general complaint is that, the noobie-access material/instructions is not noobie enough.  I don't know the buzzwords, the tools.  I get on SourceForge and there's 100 things to click on, and 100 things from each of those, and I'm lost.  I guess that's what this workshop is for ... we'll plow through that initial barrier, hopefully, and get to a point where I can find a few hooks to get into a project.
-I worked through this once, but the spreadsheet is set up so the box is fixed and if you type too much, you can't see it.  So I have comments like "project too big", but I didn't have space to write anything that would help me know WHY I thought that later.  In that case, the target size from the video is not lines of code, but contributor count, 6 contributors per year (and I'm glad I took notes, because THAT criteria isn't written where I've been able to find it).  This project had 25 per month at one point so I think it's too big.  Lately the contributor count is down, but only because of waning activity (another thing not helpful for students joining in).  Some of the more recent material, like the 14 Ways to Contribute to FOSS article, tell about ways to contribute that this project might benefit from.  One of the code widgets reports that the comment level is low.  Testing and all that little picky long-tail stuff might be good.
-Anyway, most of the stuff I was looking for I haven't figure out how to find you.  I'm reluctant to claim that the project has no documentation, instructions for noobies, friendliness, etc., just because *I* can't find any of this stuff.  I see that people downloading from SourceForge and presumably using this thing, so I know it's not dead.  But the developers are on Ohioh, I think, so ... I'm mostly looking there.  Having pounded on this for a while, I may go look at some of my comrads pages and perhaps see what I'm missing.