Haiti Emergency Response: 2010 Earthquake

Background:

• ​http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_Haiti_earthquake

Volunteers Task List:

• ​http://bit.ly/sahana-haiti-todo

Please also download an IRC client & join us at #sahana at Freenode:

GNU/Linux & MS Windows	​http://xchat.org/
OS X:	​http://colloquy.info/

Open Bugs:

• BugReportingGuidelines

Instances:

• Prod: ​http://haiti.sahanafoundation.org
• UAT: ​http://haiti-test.sahanafoundation.org
• Dev: ​http://haiti-dev.sahanafoundation.org/

Progression of code will usually be from Dev -> UAT -> Prod

Code:

For developers that wish to assist Sahana, we have a number of different coding options to help out. You don't need to have all these skills, any of them will be of use. Even if you have none of these, jump into #sahana and we may be able to find some way for you to help out based upon your skillset.

• Python - all the core coding is undertaken in Python
• web2py - this is the application framework that we use in Python for SahanaPy
• OpenLayers - this is the client javascript library we use for mapping in the browser
• jQuery - additional view tweaks are done using this powerful yet simple JavaScript library
• XSLT/XPath - a lot of import/export functionality is created using XSLT templates written using XPath. For more info see XsltTemplates

See this page for guidelines on setting up a local SahanaPy instance:

• InstallationGuidelinesDeveloper
• DeveloperGuidelinesBzr#HowtogetyourworkMergedintoTrunk

Note that for Haiti response, if you wish to work on RMS you will want the bzr command below to check out the Haiti branch (if working on other aspects then these should normally be merged with Trunk 1st as per the Release Process.

• Branch: ​https://code.launchpad.net/sahana/haiti-quake-2010

  bzr branch lp:sahana/haiti-quake-2010 haiti
  

• If you are getting a "Invalid Request" error when you try to run the application, try renaming the folder to "haiti" (no hyphen) and retrying: ​http://127.0.0.1:8000/haiti

We have some developer guidelines available:

• DeveloperGuidelines

We have a few development strands (listed in rough order of priority):

• SpreadsheetImporter

• Medical Needs Registry

• Request Management System

• ServerSidePagination

• RepresentSafety

• Organisation Registry (Who, What, Where)

• GIS

• BulkUploader for Photos with optional GeoTagging

• Volunteer Registry

• OfflineInstance

• Synchronisation

• ​Translations
  • ​Creole (​auto-translator)
  • ​French

• Documentation

• AdminPanels

• PDF

• CodeCleanups

Inactive

• Missing Persons Registry/Disaster Victim Identification

Admin

• ReleaseManagement
  • ReleaseProcess
• Data Migration & Consistency
• Maintain ​Front Page of the Portal
• StatusMeetingNotes-200110

ToDo

• MySQL optimisation
• mod_gzip/expires optimisation
• Web2Py optimisation
• Add syslog rotation to /tmp/cron.output
• SSL cert for Dev
• Enable Tickets viewing via Web (SSL for admins or, for users, )

• Next prod update
  • Update Web2Py (for IS_DATE_IN_RANGE)
    • uncomment from models/02_pr.py

IRC Channels:

Work is being coordinated via ​IRC Chat.

• #sahana Main Channel, Data Entry & System Testing
• #sahana-py Coding
• #sahana-gis GIS

Speak to any of these people for help: ajuonline, bitner, chamindra, flavour, gavin_t, lifeeth, michaelhowden, mprutsalis, nursix, timClicks