FOSSkriti Workshop

There will be a hackfest for SahanaPy at ​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 (& possibly Chamindra, Dominic & Satyag)

Preparation

• Server (Internet accessible): provided by ​Zen Internet
  • Will be a Xen environment
  • Have a Bzr repo people can check code into
    • ​http://doc.bazaar-vcs.org/bzr.dev/en/user-guide/index.html#running-a-smart-server
    • Those stuck behind a Proxy can use this service to gain access: ​http://your-freedom.net/
  • Runs code live via Apache/mod_wsgi (remote admin permitted)
• Get Trac usernames setup for all known participants ahead of time: Shashank/Ajay
• Person Registry Blue Print: Dominic
• Prepare Tracks Intro

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
  • DeveloperGuidelines
  • ​IRC
  • Pastebin
    • For jQuery/HTML: ​http://pastebin.me/
    • For Python: ​http://paste.pocoo.org/
  • ​http://www.dimdim.com (if necessary)

How to Communicate?

• IRC #sahana on irc.freenode.net
• Developer discussions prior to the event can be done on the ​Sahana Developer Mailing list
• Participants please ping flavour/ajuonline on IRC to get their Trac User Names created for this wiki before hand or ask one of the guys in #fosskriti.

Tracks

• Sahana Module development: Ajay Kumar [ajuonline]
  • How to add a new Module?
  • Person Registry

• ​Web2Py framework for simple RAD web development: Massimo
  • Ensure the new Auth/Crud in tools.py are working properly
  • Extend the Languages support by integrating suggestions from ​GoogleTranslate
  • Many to Many widget
  • Synchronisation
  • Framework
  • Test _stamp_many()

• Testing using Selenium: Satyakaam Goswaami [satyag]
  • Testing with Selenium

• jQuery Enhancements: People already fluent with jQuery
  • Note the Production/Debug modes with compressed JS files: DeveloperGuidelinesReleaseProcess#CompressJSCSSfiles
  • Fix bug in DeletableList
  • 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
  • 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.
    • GIS
    • Messaging Module
    • Charts/Reporting
    • XML Import/Export