= FOSSkriti Workshop =

There will be a hackfest for !SahanaPy at [http://techkriti.org/#/fosskriti-events/ FOSSkriti] on Feb 14th at 15:30 UTC

This will include a number of people - some will be skilled programmers, some may be new to this technology.

Ajay will be on site.
Remote support will be provided by Fran, Massimo & Satya (Chamindra & Dominic [nursix] will also be around)

== Introduction ==
 * Introductory Presentation: Ajay Kumar [ajuonline]
  * http://trac.sahanapy.org/Sahana_at_FOSSkriti_2009.pdf
 * Brief Skype Videocall on the tracks we will cover: Fran Boon [flavour]
=== Getting Started ===
 * InstallationGuidelinesDeveloper
 * Using Transconnect for full Internet access (iitk network + bzr workaround): 
  * Start up a terminal and run the following command
  * {{{export LD_PRELOAD=~/.tconn/tconn.so}}}
  * Verify that it works with {{{wget www.google.com}}}
  * Run all bzr commands from the same terminal. If you want to change terminals, repeat the export in the new one. 
 * Using Bzr to work on the hackfest tree:
  * Note for Windows Users: DeveloperGuidelinesBzrWindows
  * Get a username/password for the hack server from Ajay or Fran
  * {{{bzr branch bzr+ssh://username@hack.sahanapy.org/var/www/web2py/applications/sahana}}}
  * hack
  * {{{bzr add && bzr remove && bzr commit}}}
  * {{{bzr push bzr+ssh://username@hack.sahanapy.org/var/www/web2py/applications/sahana}}}
  * Update the working-tree & reload Apache to see the results: http://hack.sahanapy.org/cgi-bin/hackfest.py
  * Ignore the 500 error!
 * DeveloperGuidelines
=== How to Communicate? ===
 * [https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sahana-maindev Sahana Developer Mailing list] can be used prior to & after the event.
 * [http://www.sahana.lk/chat IRC]
 * Pastebin
  * For jQuery/HTML: http://pastebin.me/
  * For Python: http://paste.pocoo.org/
 * Participants please ping flavour/ajuonline on IRC to get their Trac logins created for this wiki beforehand or ask one of the guys in #fosskriti.
 * [http://skype.com Skype] or [http://dimdim.com Dimdim] or [http://copilot.com CoPilot] (if necessary)

== Tracks ==
 * Sahana Module development: Ajay Kumar [ajuonline]
  * [wiki:DeveloperGuidelinesNewModule How to add a new Module?]
  * [wiki:BluePrintPersonRegistry Person Registry]
  * [wiki:BluePrintInventoryManagement Logistics Module]

 * [http://web2py.com Web2Py] framework for simple RAD web development: Massimo di Pierro [massimo]
  * [wiki:BluePrintFramework#Sub-menus Sub-menus]
  * [wiki:BluePrintRESTImplementation RESTlike CRUD controller]:
   * integrate tools.py's Crud Authorization
   * still using t2.itemize, t2.search & 1 instance of t2.delete (should be replaced, which may mean amending tools.py &/or sqlhtml.py)
   * rework our Audit to use tools.py's auth_events
   * JSON POST support
  * [wiki:BluePrintMany2Many Many to Many widget]
  * [wiki:BluePrintSynchronisation Synchronisation]
  * Extend the Languages support by integrating suggestions from [http://code.google.com/apis/ajaxlanguage/ GoogleTranslate]
  * Test _stamp_many()

 * Testing using Selenium: Satyakaam Goswami [satyag]
  * Functional Test cases will be created using [wiki:BluePrints BluePrints]
  * Download and install [http://seleniumhq.org/download/ Selenium IDE]
  * Read [wiki:DeveloperGuidelinesTesting#FunctionalTests Testing with Selenium]
  * [http://www.tux.org/~tbr/seleniumtesting/ Good read in order to Understand how Selenium Works ]

 * jQuery Enhancements: People already fluent with jQuery
  * Note the Production/Debug modes with compressed JS files: DeveloperGuidelinesReleaseProcess#CompressJSCSSfiles
  * Fix bug in [wiki:DeveloperGuidelinesDeletableList DeletableList]: #7
  * Auto-complete widget (for when dropdowns get too long):
    * http://groups.google.com/group/web2py/browse_thread/thread/e1034df0091b5bfd
    * http://groups.google.com/group/web2py/browse_thread/thread/f6e0170273b14241
    * http://www.pengoworks.com/workshop/jquery/autocomplete.htm
    * http://plugins.jquery.com/project/autocompletex
    * http://plugins.jquery.com/project/YA_AutoComplete
  * [wiki:BluePrintMany2Many Many to Many widget]

 * Advanced: Fran Boon [flavour]
  * if there are advanced Python developers who want a challenge then they can look at any of the BluePrints, e.g.
   * [wiki:BluePrintGeographicInformationSystems GIS]
   * [wiki:BluePrintMessagingModule Messaging Module]
   * [wiki:BluePrintReporting Charts/Reporting]
   * [wiki:BluePrintGISImportExport XML Import/Export]

== Preparation ==
 * Dedicated Server (Internet accessible): Courtesy [http://www.zen.co.uk Zen Internet]
  * Bzr repo people can check code into
  * Runs code live via Apache/mod_wsgi (remote admin permitted)
  * CGI for restarting Apache (& updating Bzr working-tree)
  * [wiki:InstallationGuidelinesXen Xen environment]