Tasks for GCI

​http://code.google.com/p/google-code-in/wiki/GCIAdminMentorInformation

Code

• Fixing Bugs
  • 2 x Hard: http://eden.sahanafoundation.org/report/1
  • 2 x Easy: http://eden.sahanafoundation.org/report/18
• Enhancements
  • Hard: add EDXL-DE (distribution element) to existing Eden EDXL compliant components like: HAVE, RM, and SITREP ​http://www.oasis-open.org/standards#edxl
• Packaging
  • Easy (Fran): Windows Installer for End-Users
  • Easy (Fran): Windows Installer for Developers

Documentation

• Reviewing a chapter in the Sahana Eden Essential Guide (http://eden.sahanafoundation.org/wiki/Book) by following the specific instructions & highlighting what could be further clarified, or identifying errors
  • ​http://en.flossmanuals.net/sahana-eden/installation
  • ​http://en.flossmanuals.net/sahana-eden/configuration
  • ​http://en.flossmanuals.net/sahana-eden/customisation
  • ​http://en.flossmanuals.net/sahana-eden/installing-a-developer-environment
  • ​http://en.flossmanuals.net/sahana-eden/building-a-new-application
• Add Screen shots to ​http://en.flossmanuals.net/sahana-eden/building-a-new-application

Outreach

• Design Trac template to align with: wiki.sahanafoundation.org/doku.php/foundation:branding
• Videos
  • What is Sahana Eden (User focused)
  • How to start developing in Sahana Eden (Developer Focused - high level overview)
    • ​http://en.flossmanuals.net/sahana-eden/installation
  • How to deploy Sahana Eden (Deployer Focused - high level overview)
    • ​http://en.flossmanuals.net/sahana-eden/installing-a-developer-environment
• Give a presentation on Sahana Eden to a group (And Video) - hard
• Design an IRC Bot to automatically greet new people who join the sahana-eden channel, ping members of the PMC and keep a record of all people who join the channel.

Quality Assurance

• 2 xTesting and reporting bugs
• Using Selenium IDE create test scripts for application (easy)
• Document the data needed for a selenium test script to run from a bare (prepopulated) system (medium)
• Take a selenium script (see above) and using the test API generate a python test (hard)

Research

• 3 x Create disaster scenarios & demos with data through pre-populate
• Easy (Nuwan): Map elements between EDXL-SITREP and EDXL-RM to integrate the Situational Reporting and Resource Management components (deliverable: "table") with underlying schema
• Medium (Nuwan): Develop a blue print (deliverable: "specifications document") for adding Transliteration to text entry controls, for example with ​http://www.google.com/ime/transliteration/ engine or any other generic plug-in
• Easy (Fran): Provide UTF8 names for Locations exported from ​GADM in Vietnam, e.g. using ​Wikipedia
  • see attached spreadsheet VNM_adm4.7z (L1 has been done, focus on L2 1st, then L3, then finally L4 if you can)

Training

• 2 x Construct FAQ (From personal experience, mailing list, IRC)
• Producing Video screen casts from book chapters
  • ​http://en.flossmanuals.net/sahana-eden/configuration
  • ​http://en.flossmanuals.net/sahana-eden/customisation
  • ​http://en.flossmanuals.net/sahana-eden/building-a-new-application

Translation

• Translating key phases (from home page)
• Review code to for quality of localized strings (1 task = 3 fixes)
  • Avoid concatenation of localized strings - use %(variable_name)s instead
  • Avoid non keyboard characters (Excel doesn't handle these)
  • Try to use consistent language

User Interface

• Provide feedback on Workflows in Sahana Eden
• design a better homepage for Sahana Eden (wireframes)
• design a better GUI (deliverable: "wireframes" = moderate) for Common Alerting Protocol (CAP) with capabilities for multi-language alerting and multi-media delivery; use Agasti CAP Broker as a starting point (Nuwan)
• design a GUI (deliverable: "wireframes" = hard) for building implementation specific XSL documents that generate SMS, Email, IVR, tweet, etc multi-media delivery text outputs (Nuwan)