[QGIS-Developer] QGIS Onboarding Day?

[Raymond Nijssen]

Hi Thomas,

Good idea to also explain this for Windows. However we will need someone 
to teach that since I don't know how to compile on Windows. Could you do 
it? You seem to have managed setting it up and you could prevent other 
people to having the same frustrations you met.

Recording the workshops is also a great idea. I will try to get the 
equipment for that. The workshops might be too long though, resulting in 
long and boring videos, so maybe creating short(er) instruction videos 
would me more efficient.

Thanks for your input, hoping to see you at the hackfest!
Raymond




On 06-12-2019 14:42, Thomas Baumann wrote:
> Hi Raymond,
> I think especially getting QtCreator or Visual Studio under Windows OS 
> up and running would be a good topic if the are windows users as newbies 
> at your hackfest.
> 
> On Linux and Windows I got the debug setup with QtCreator running with 
> the help of our paid QGIS support but the setup on windows with Visual 
> Studio which i tried on my own was just a nightmare.
> 
> I'm still not sure if there are essential parts missing in the docs at 
> the moment (adding Version.lib dependency, manually creating qgis.env) 
> which were necessary for me to be able to debug in Visual studio:
> https://gis.stackexchange.com/q/340984/67477
> 
> 
> I can imagine that a "debug"-boarding directly from the QGIS devs would 
> be helpful for many users... So I was wondering if you plan to record 
> the boarding?
> 
> If I wouldn't have needed the debug environment for my work I would have 
> just given up after some frustrating hours and dismissed the idea of 
> helping bugfixing QGIS.
> 
> 
> regards,
> Thomas
> 
> Raymond Nijssen <r.nijssen at terglobo.nl <mailto:r.nijssen at terglobo.nl>> 
> schrieb am Do., 5. Dez. 2019, 13:19:
> 
>     Dear Devs,
> 
>     Making plans for the next hackfest (13-15 March 2020, The Netherlands)
>     we are thinking of a way to attract new people to the project. Quite
>     some Dutch people are interested to come over and "see" us, but of
>     course we need to help them getting up and running.
> 
>     So we are thinking on doing an "Onboarding Day" the day prior to the HF
>     (Thursday March 12) with workshops teaching:
> 
>     - How to translate?
>     - How to write documentation?
>     - How to compile?
>     etc...
> 
>     We already noticed Alessandro's offer to do a Mentor Stream on "my
>     first
>     pull request" which would also fit this idea.
> 
>     Just curious, what are your thoughts on this? And would you like to
>     arrive one day earlier in the lovely Netherland to warmly welcome new
>     contributors?
> 
>     Thanks,
>     Raymond (and Rosa and Aron)
> 
>     https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/wiki/24th-Contributor-Meeting-in-'s-Hertogenbosch
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