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Sahana Internship Program - 2012

Table of Contents

  1. Software Development Interns
    1. Objectives
    2. Tasks
    3. Interns
      1. Piyush Aggarwal
      2. Somay Jain
      3. S.P Mohanty
      4. Ashwyn Sharma
  2. Communication Intern
    1. Objectives
    2. Tasks
    3. Interns
      1. Esteve Giraud
      2. Marine Louvigny

Software Development Interns

Objectives

  • Supporting deployments of Sahana Eden
  • To improve the accuracy of Sahana Eden Documentation and ensure it is up to date
  • To increase the reliable of the Sahana Eden software through resolving bugs and automated tests
  • Tasks (Preliminary List)

Tasks

Preliminary List:

  • Documentation of Project Module
  • Implement Schools Module
  • Write a Automated Selenium Test Scripts for a Module (or 3-4 Test Scripts), and make an improvement to the automated test framework
  • Fix a Difficult Bug from the Trac
  • Take on a small Project, like the NCSU ones
  • Refactor some of the code (including writing tests to ensure that the refactorization is correct)
  • Review the code for “@ToDo” and either do these - or log these as tickets
  • Port the Give2LA theme to the current Sahana Eden template framework
  • Participate in a Sahanathon
  • Review Wiki Projects to ensure that all are current
  • Port the Give2LA theme to the current Sahana Eden template framework
    • Review the CSS
    • Eliminate un-needed CSS
    • Better sort it
    • Review the Themes to eliminate duplicate CSS between themes (Fran - thoughts?)
  • Manage Improvements to PM Tool / Sunflower
    • Get outstanding tasks from existing Sunflower site
    • Review Permissions
    • Settings to have new tasks automatically assigned to specific people (based on people for project / activity?)
    • Different types of tasks
    • Filter lists for different users
      • Users can only see
    • Make it simpler to log bugs
      • Less fields
      • No login required - but allow user to specify who’s login it in a field
      • Add a default link to log a bug in Sunflower - which copies the current URL to the “Source” field
      • Log a bug when an error is encountered
      • If not already logged for this bug
    • Ability to “vote” on tasks
  • Review the Automated Test Suite
  • Ensure that any new tests completed during GCI are included in the test suite.
  • Based on this task: http://eden.sahanafoundation.org/wiki/Contribute/QA#CreateAnAutomatedTestsforaTestScriptsfromtheSahanaEdenTestsSpreadsheet and the spreadsheet it links to, make a list of the tests which still need to be automated.

Interns

Piyush Aggarwal

Mentor: Michael Howden

Somay Jain

Mentor: Michael Howden

S.P Mohanty

Mentor: Fran Boon

  • December 2012
    • Continuous Integration Server
  • January 2013
  • February 2013
  • March 2013

Ashwyn Sharma

Mentor: Fran Boon

  • December 2012
    • Sandy Tickets
  • January 2013
  • February 2013
  • March 2013

Communication Intern

Objectives

  • Increase the awareness of Sahana
  • Ensure that external stakeholder understand:
    • The Value of Sahana
    • How Sahana Can be used

Tasks

Preliminary List:

  • Review the Article on Sahana Deployments on the Website, Wiki & Book. Ensure that they are the same and updated
    • Mark Prutsalis: the website page has been updated, but it is not a comprehensive list - only highlights.
    • Mark Prutsalis: the eden wiki and main ssf wiki have differences that need to be reconciled

[we should probably figure out which pages to deprecate entirely and where to keep a master repository of all Sahana deployments, but this is not a starting intern task]

  • Review Wiki - ensure that the navigation flows,index pages have a full list of links and out-of-date pages are updated/removed
  • Review Blog
  • Update my (Michael) photo on the blog
  • Blog on EUROSHA project in Kenya (every two weeks); include photos, etc. (Marine)
  • Write up project pages on website (EUROSHA, IFRC, Occupy Sandy, Give2LA, ADPC) (Marine)
  • Participate (& Publicize) in a Sahanathon
  • Develop a Social Media Strategy
  • Setting up a Sahana Software Foundation Mailing list (Not a discussion list - just for announcements eg MailChimp)
  • Update Sahana Eden Brochure
  • Create a Sahana Software Foundation Brochure
  • Design a Sahana Software Foundation Poster to promote our work at conferences/events
  • Review, identify static pages that need to be updated, and update them.
  • Write Case Studies of Sahana’s use for addition to web site (above - project pages)
  • Arrange Community Call - send reminders - invite special guests
  • Coordinate Communications from Interns - write up/edit a monthly reports on software development interns for community / blog
  • Generate Demo data for demo site

Interns

Esteve Giraud

Mentor: Leslie Hawthorn

  • December 2012
    • Blogs about Internship Program (Serie of 8 articles: introduction, 1 x 6 intern, conclusion)
    • Post on Davin’s presentation on occupy Sandy during the community call (12/12/12)
  • January 2013
  • February 2013
  • March 2013

Marine Louvigny

Mentor: Mark Prutsalis

  • December 2012
    • Blog about EUROSHA project
  • January 2013
    • Assist w/ organizing the community call for January
  • February 2013
  • March 2013
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