SahanaPy Workout @ FOSS.in/2009

SahanaPy is having a week-long workout at ​FOSS.in 2009

Description

SahanaPy is an example of ​HFOSS (Humanitarian FOSS). It is a RAD framework for developing Emergency Management applications. ​Sahana has been used to help support most major disasters since the Indian Ocean Tsunami including localised versions for floods in India (Bihar 2008 & Andhra Pradesh/Karnataka 2009). You can check Sahana's History ​here & ​here.

The core team will all be physically together in in one place for the week to really push our framework to the next level. We'll be extending a warm welcome to any Python/JavaScript programmers who wish to join in throughout the week. We will be polishing up our back-end REST/XSLT-driven XML/JSON controller & developing new front-end UI tools - flexible layouts with advanced widgets (based on ​ExtJS &/or ​jQuery ​dataTables/​jEditable) & Growl-like notifications generated programmatically by the easy to use, lightweight & powerful ​Web2Py. We'll also be looking at improving our GIS functionality using Javascript toolkits like ​OpenLayers & ​GeoExt/​MapFish. We'll also be fixing our Testing framework, based on ​Selenium.

How will people benefit from attending?

• Get acquainted with a new python web framework ​Web2Py
• Use advanced JavaScript functionality
• Get a sense of fulfilment from contributing to HFOSS

Audience, Pre-requisites

• Installation, Developer & Framework Guidelines
• Participants should be familiar with Web technologies such as JavaScript & Python Frameworks. ​Web2Py, ​OpenLayers/​GeoExt/​MapFish &/or ​Selenium experience a plus.
• If people can get time to familiarise with the codebase before the session then this would be extremely helpful, but isn't required.
• If there are people with skills in Usability they are welcome even without programming skills.

How to Communicate?

• ​Developer Mailing list can be used prior to & after the event.
• ​IRC allows real-time group & 1-1 communication using low-bandwidth text
• Pastebin allows people to share code snippets
  • For jQuery/HTML: ​http://pastebin.me/
  • For Python: ​http://paste.pocoo.org/
• ​GoogleDocs can be used for collaborative document authoring before copying results to this Wiki
• ​Dabbleboard provides an Online Whiteboard for sketches
• An audio channel can be added, if necessary, using ​GTalk or ​Skype
• ​Log tickets here in Trac
• Alternate options: ​Dimdim or ​CoPilot

What are we going to do?

Fran

1. GIS

• Export Features as GeoJSON (using S3XRC with an XSLT)
• Display Features
• Make Features Editable from the Map

2. Ext

• Add a new format=ext representation to the REST controller which uses ext versions of the default layouts which inherit from layout_ext.html
• Ext menu
• Ext widgets for forms