I have only ever used WordPress before (that someone else set up) so I had to do some HTML tutorials and try to learn about Git. This was in my first round in 2016. I started off using LibreOffice but it kept changing the code, e.g. margins and embedding the photo. So I'll improve this step by step.
UPDATE. Because I'm a bit locked into how LibreOffice set up the styles, I'm still figuring out how things get placed on a webpage, especially images, and I haven't yet created a separate css folder for the stylesheet. I am trying to figure out how to get the two Preferences screenshots to the right side by side but no luck yet. UPDATE again. I managed it but I'm not sure how. The images are linked to the paragraphs, but moving them is still trial and error for me. And captions will be a future challenge. UPDATE again. Now I have managed to move the photos to where I want them.
Then I was trying to use Mac's TextEdit as the text editor, but it was set as Rich Text Format default so everything got messed up. Now I have TextEdit preferences set as Plain text and it will open HTML files as code instead of formatted text. Charlie said he prefers Atom, but I'll use TextEdit for now. One thing I am sure I will trip over in future is the fact that all these files are titled index.html and I need to make sure I'm writing in the right one.
I'm writing this in week 4 2016 and have paid attention to others' webpages. Neil has emphasized constant documentation, also of little steps and learnings, so I'm trying to adopt that routine. Actually I've always had the habit in Mac of using Grab to do screenshots and screen selections but Charlie reminded me of the shortcuts which do indeed make things easier and faster. Command Shift 3 for a screenshot and Command Shift 4 for selection.
I didn't have any problems with the basic git routine as long as I followed my cheat sheet (hand-written notes in my notebook). Charlie also developed a super way to explain the procedure and made a post about it on his page. (Photo above, aka: Git for gits.)
Now when I am back to the exercises in 2017 (writing this in March), I seem to have a problem with git push. I was able to clone the new repo and I was also able to push an update to the 2016 repo so we think it is not a problem with the SSH key. I'm using the same laptop as last year. The Terminal tells me that 'You are not allowed to push code to protected branches on this project.' We'll hopefully find the problem on Monday. Charlie helped me via Skype and then we contacted Bas. (I don't have a local instructor this year, unfortunately.) I also hope to copy Charlie's original Aalto Fablab Fab Academy 2016 page.
I also tried to get links to open in a new tab, but then I read here that this can be a security problem. Is this right? I removed the target="_blank" attributes then.
UPDATE. Now I have successfully managed to create separate CSS stylesheets and have learned how to centre the photos and have them separate without the text wrapping. Next step is to learn how to put two or three photos together, centred and without the text wrapping. UPDATE again. This page helped.
A few years ago, when Massimo Menichinelli still lived in Finland, I attended one of his Open P2P Design workshops. We were using Subversion then. I did achieve some vague understanding of version control then but technical details are still lost on me. As a researcher I focus more on how these things affect what people do, how participation actually 'happens' in practice, what 'governance' and 'access' means in p2p work. I'll try to understand these procedures technically as much as I can in order to inform my understanding of them as social interactions. I presume a lot of people are also concerned about how these procedures, which began as a way for FLOSS developers to collaborate, translate when people are collaborating on tangible objects and designs.
To be continued. See my FINAL PROJECT page.
This was the recitation for the first week in 2016. I would still like to revisit that talk and so notes and reflections are to come. (There was no recitation in 2017 this week.)