2013-08-29: In-class participation

Objective

By the end of class today you will have:

Created accounts on services required for this course:
- Github
- Stackoverflow
- Feedly
- Freenode IRC
Installed and configured applications required to connect to those services:
- Github client
- IRC client (Pidgin or Adium)
Become part of the Open Source community by
- Subscribing to blog feeds
- Joining freenode IRC channels
Documented your process so that someone else can reproduce what you've done today without you being there to help:
- Verbatim instructions
- Identify roadblocks
- Anticipate breakdowns

Sign-up for a Github account
Fork https://github.com/stat157/homework-01
Add your name to homework-01/README.md using the Github web interface
Install the Github client for your platform - Mac: https://help.github.com/articles/set-up-git#platform-mac - Windows: https://help.github.com/articles/set-up-git#platform-windows - Linux: https://help.github.com/articles/set-up-git#platform-linux http://git-scm.com/downloads/guis
Clone initial version of homework-01 repository to your machine
Follow http://twitter.com/githubstatus and create/add it to a Stat157 twitter list
Sign-up for a Feedly account
Add blog.feedly.com to your Feedly subscriptions
Add github.com/blog to your Feedly subscriptions
Install Pidgin (Windows/Linux) or Adium (Mac) http://www.pidgin.im/ https://adium.im/
Add planet.pidgin.im and adium.im/blog to your Feedly subscriptions (even if you installed only one, you should be aware of news and updates that may affect your collaborators).
Configure Pidgin/Adium to connect to freenode.net IRC
/join #stat157 and say hello to everyone
Follow https://twitter.com/freenodestaff and add it to your Stat157 list
Add blog.freenode.net to your Feedly subscriptions
/join #ipython and just lurk... for now!