[Inkscape-board] [RESULTS] Developer Education Book Campaign 2013

a. YES - Johan On 13-1-2014 9:46, Bryce Harrington wrote: > A majority Board vote is required for the following proposal. > > > Proposal: > > 1. Purchase and distribute a programming book to the top 10 Inkscape > contributors for the past 12 months, as calculated by Ohloh.net: > http://www.ohloh.net/p/inkscape/contributors?query=&sort=commits_12_mo > > 2. The contributors can choose from one of the following books: > a) Effective C++, 3rd Ed. > by Scott Meyers > b) Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code > by Martin Fowler > c) A Tour of C++ > by Bjarne Stroustrup > > 3. The campaign proposer (Johan Engelen, or their designee) will be > empowered to officially announce and introduce the campaign to the > larger community. > > 4. The board chairperson (or their designee) will be empowered to > i) Identify the qualified contributors as per (1), ii) Contact the > qualified book recipients to collect their address and choice of book > from (2), iii) Purchase and disseminiate the books to the provided > addresses, iv) Collect reimbursement from SFC for expenses incurred. > > > [ ] a. Yes, conduct this campaign as defined above > [ ] b. No, we should not conduct this campaign > [ ] c. Maybe, but I disagree with some definition of the campaign > > > Background: > > """ > Lately, I've become obsessed with code quality. I've been reading > Bjourne Stroustrup's "bible" on C++11, watched all videos of the > "Going Native" conferences, started using clang, ..., and it has made > me much more aware of the language's facilities for preventing bugs. I > regularly browse over Inkscape's code and try to fix things I think > can be improved (janitorial); our source is a pretty big mess > I really do think Inkscape can use some love to improve logic and to > decrease some amount of spaghetti. > > I just saw the book "Effective C++", which I believe is a great resource > to inspire thought and learn how to write better code, and is meant for > experienced programmers. In general: how do you guys feel about > donating something [like this book] to our top committers for their > "education"? We would need some metric of what "top committers" means, > we could use ohloh.net's numbers. > > *For example*, we have 10 people that committed more than 50 times in > the past 12 months. So that'd be 10 books = 10 x 31 euro = 310 euro > cost --- shipping and whatnot --> 400 euro cost. > > (After we release 0.91, I will become very active in pushing for C++11 > (i.e., upgrading our compiler dependencies to more modern versions so > we can start using part of C++11 features), and general maintenance / > refactoring / cleaning up. It's pretty rewarding I find, and very > low-key in terms of long-time brain-investment.) > > Johan > """ > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > CenturyLink Cloud: The Leader in Enterprise Cloud Services. > Learn Why More Businesses Are Choosing CenturyLink Cloud For > Critical Workloads, Development Environments & Everything In Between. > Get a Quote or Start a Free Trial Today. > http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=119420431&iu=/4140/ostg... > _______________________________________________ > Inkscape-board mailing list > Inkscape-board(a)lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-board > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ CenturyLink Cloud: The Leader in Enterprise Cloud Services. Learn Why More Businesses Are Choosing CenturyLink Cloud For Critical Workloads, Development Environments & Everything In Between. Get a Quote or Start a Free Trial Today. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=119420431&iu=/4140/ostg... _______________________________________________ Inkscape-board mailing list Inkscape-board(a)lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-board