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Posted to dev@mynewt.apache.org by Jacob Rosenthal <ja...@gmail.com> on 2017/03/02 09:04:48 UTC

Re: Hackillinois this weekend in Urbana IL

Hey all,

As is obvious from lack of commits and prs, I talked up mynewt a bit, but
it wasnt what I was able to focus my mentees on. Next time!

On Wed, Feb 22, 2017 at 6:16 PM, Alan Graves <ag...@deltacontrols.com>
wrote:

> Very cool of you to do that. I think I should be attending that event ...
>
> ALan
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: will sanfilippo [mailto:wills@runtime.io]
> Sent: Wednesday, February 22, 2017 2:19 PM
> To: dev@mynewt.incubator.apache.org
> Subject: Re: Hackillinois this weekend in Urbana IL
>
> Do not know how helpful this will be and it is just my own two cents so
> take it for what it is worth :-)
>
> First, this is more of a favor/ask: if you have folks going through the
> installation process and the documentation, any feedback you can provide on
> what was easy/good/hard/bad/confusing would be great to know.
>
> As far as contributions go I just have a couple of thoughts. Not sure if
> these will be a tall order or not. The first is adding a BLE profile. There
> are a number of defined profiles and some might be implementable in a short
> time. Another idea could be to add a driver for a sensor (or sensors).
>
> Let us know how it goes!
>
> > On Feb 22, 2017, at 1:34 PM, Jacob Rosenthal <ja...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > Hey newt folks,
> >
> > Im mentoring at https://hackillinois.org/ this weekend on bluetooth
> > and embedded in general
> >
> > ~1000 Students will create and contribute to open source projects all
> > weekend starting friday. Im not sure what skill levels and languages
> > Ill have available to me, but if anyone has ideas for mynewt contribs
> > Im definitely going to tell them about mynewt and bring some targets
> > for them to play with.
> >
> > --Jacob
>
>

Re: Hackillinois this weekend in Urbana IL

Posted by Jacob Rosenthal <ja...@gmail.com>.
College

On Thu, Mar 2, 2017 at 10:15 AM, aditi hilbert <ad...@runtime.io> wrote:

> Hi Jacob,
>
> Thanks for spreading the word about Mynewt. It will fall on the right ears
> some times.
> Just curious - were they high school or college students?
>
> thanks,
> aditi
>
> > On Mar 2, 2017, at 1:04 AM, Jacob Rosenthal <ja...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > Hey all,
> >
> > As is obvious from lack of commits and prs, I talked up mynewt a bit, but
> > it wasnt what I was able to focus my mentees on. Next time!
> >
> > On Wed, Feb 22, 2017 at 6:16 PM, Alan Graves <ag...@deltacontrols.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> >> Very cool of you to do that. I think I should be attending that event
> ...
> >>
> >> ALan
> >>
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: will sanfilippo [mailto:wills@runtime.io]
> >> Sent: Wednesday, February 22, 2017 2:19 PM
> >> To: dev@mynewt.incubator.apache.org
> >> Subject: Re: Hackillinois this weekend in Urbana IL
> >>
> >> Do not know how helpful this will be and it is just my own two cents so
> >> take it for what it is worth :-)
> >>
> >> First, this is more of a favor/ask: if you have folks going through the
> >> installation process and the documentation, any feedback you can
> provide on
> >> what was easy/good/hard/bad/confusing would be great to know.
> >>
> >> As far as contributions go I just have a couple of thoughts. Not sure if
> >> these will be a tall order or not. The first is adding a BLE profile.
> There
> >> are a number of defined profiles and some might be implementable in a
> short
> >> time. Another idea could be to add a driver for a sensor (or sensors).
> >>
> >> Let us know how it goes!
> >>
> >>> On Feb 22, 2017, at 1:34 PM, Jacob Rosenthal <ja...@gmail.com>
> >> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Hey newt folks,
> >>>
> >>> Im mentoring at https://hackillinois.org/ this weekend on bluetooth
> >>> and embedded in general
> >>>
> >>> ~1000 Students will create and contribute to open source projects all
> >>> weekend starting friday. Im not sure what skill levels and languages
> >>> Ill have available to me, but if anyone has ideas for mynewt contribs
> >>> Im definitely going to tell them about mynewt and bring some targets
> >>> for them to play with.
> >>>
> >>> --Jacob
> >>
> >>
>
>

Re: Hackillinois this weekend in Urbana IL

Posted by aditi hilbert <ad...@runtime.io>.
Hi Jacob,

Thanks for spreading the word about Mynewt. It will fall on the right ears some times.
Just curious - were they high school or college students?

thanks,
aditi

> On Mar 2, 2017, at 1:04 AM, Jacob Rosenthal <ja...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hey all,
> 
> As is obvious from lack of commits and prs, I talked up mynewt a bit, but
> it wasnt what I was able to focus my mentees on. Next time!
> 
> On Wed, Feb 22, 2017 at 6:16 PM, Alan Graves <ag...@deltacontrols.com>
> wrote:
> 
>> Very cool of you to do that. I think I should be attending that event ...
>> 
>> ALan
>> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: will sanfilippo [mailto:wills@runtime.io]
>> Sent: Wednesday, February 22, 2017 2:19 PM
>> To: dev@mynewt.incubator.apache.org
>> Subject: Re: Hackillinois this weekend in Urbana IL
>> 
>> Do not know how helpful this will be and it is just my own two cents so
>> take it for what it is worth :-)
>> 
>> First, this is more of a favor/ask: if you have folks going through the
>> installation process and the documentation, any feedback you can provide on
>> what was easy/good/hard/bad/confusing would be great to know.
>> 
>> As far as contributions go I just have a couple of thoughts. Not sure if
>> these will be a tall order or not. The first is adding a BLE profile. There
>> are a number of defined profiles and some might be implementable in a short
>> time. Another idea could be to add a driver for a sensor (or sensors).
>> 
>> Let us know how it goes!
>> 
>>> On Feb 22, 2017, at 1:34 PM, Jacob Rosenthal <ja...@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Hey newt folks,
>>> 
>>> Im mentoring at https://hackillinois.org/ this weekend on bluetooth
>>> and embedded in general
>>> 
>>> ~1000 Students will create and contribute to open source projects all
>>> weekend starting friday. Im not sure what skill levels and languages
>>> Ill have available to me, but if anyone has ideas for mynewt contribs
>>> Im definitely going to tell them about mynewt and bring some targets
>>> for them to play with.
>>> 
>>> --Jacob
>> 
>>