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= Codeathon Projects =

Since we expect GHC2010 Codeathon participants to reflect diverse skills and expertise, we have identified a range of projects. Regardless of the amount of coding needed, all of these are useful!

== Projects that do not involve programming ==

==== ''Investigate usability'' ==== #Usability
 * Role-play being a user:
  * Try it out -- you can use:
   * your locally-installed site
   * [http://demo.eden.sahanafoundation.org/eden/ demo site]
   * [http://test.eden.sahanafoundation.org/eden/ user test site for Pakistan floods response]
  * What do you expect it to do?
  * What features would you want?
  * What do you think the workflow should be?
 * Improve usability:
  * Find bugs:
   * Try to break it.
   * [BugReportingGuidelines Report bugs].
  * Document it:
   * Explore it and document the existing workflow.
   * Develop a how-to guide for users.
   * Write tooltips (help info) for fields on forms.
  * What's missing?
   * What did you want to do that wasn't available?
   * Where is the workflow inconvenient?
   * [BugReportingGuidelines Request features and suggest improvements].
 * Modules that could use some usability improvement:
  * All of them.  Well, ok, try these:
  * [http://demo.eden.sahanafoundation.org/eden/gis Mapping]
  * [http://demo.eden.sahanafoundation.org/eden/cr Shelter registry]
  * [http://demo.eden.sahanafoundation.org/eden/hms Hospital registry]
  * [http://demo.eden.sahanafoundation.org/eden/pr Person registry]
 * New or unfinished modules that would benefit from feature and workflow suggestions:
  * [http://demo.eden.sahanafoundation.org/eden/inventory Logistics]
  * [http://demo.eden.sahanafoundation.org/eden/vol Volunteer management]
  * [http://demo.eden.sahanafoundation.org/eden/msg Messaging]
  * [http://demo.eden.sahanafoundation.org/eden/rat Rapid assessment tool]

==== ''Help out with a current relief effort'' ====
 * Pakistan floods
  * Research missing map and location data for PakistanUnionCouncils, part of the [/PakistanUserGuide#LocationsHierarchy GIS location hierarchy].
  * Do you speak Urdu? Help with [PakistanTranslation translation].
  * [/Pakistan Background information].

==== ''Improve installation procedures'' ====
 * Step-by-step documentation -- we have been concentrating on Windows & Debian/Ubuntu so other distros are poorly-documented.

== Projects for beginning coders, or if new to Python or web services ==

==== ''Fix bugs'' ====
 * Pick from these [/report/18 easy bugs for new Eden developers].

==== ''Polish existing modules'' ====
 * Fix UI issues, add features, provide user-requested enhancements.
   * You can pick from these [/report/21 feature requests].
   * Or talk to the folks at the Codeathon who are [#Usability cataloging issues].
 * The landing page for each module is different -- some have descriptive text, others have statistics (a "dashboard"). Each has a different layout of menus.
   * Are any of these landing pages useful? What would be better? Maybe go straight to a list page? Make appropriate changes.
   * Is there a common sort of menu that would be useful?

==== ''Geocode addresses'' ====
 * A favorite missing feature: Geocoding addresses. There is already a geocoding service supported in Eden, but it's not used when a user adds a location. Your job:
   * Find the geocoding function.
   * When the user adds a location and enters an address, use the geocoding function to get latitude and longitude.

==== ''Suggestion Box'' ====
 * http://groups.google.com/group/sahana-eden/browse_thread/thread/bbda1e98b73e1437

==== ''!SysAdmin tasks'' ====
 * DeveloperGuidelinesReleaseProcess#ExportApplication
 * PakistanDeploymentCycle#SysadminToDo
 * Installation scripts or packages for operating systems and distributions that aren't already available (i.e. other than Windows or Debian/Ubuntu).

== Projects for more experienced coders ==
Some things to keep in mind when planning new modules or major features:
 * Consider what other FOSS tools exist, that could be installed alongside Eden.
 * Look at tools and libraries already in use in Eden, e.g. jQuery and ExtJS for UI work.

==== ''Test automation'' ====
 * Figure out how to do unit tests against a web application.
 * Write unit and functional tests.
 * DeveloperGuidelinesTesting#FunctionalTests

==== ''Tweet or SMS parsing -- allow users to provide info via tweets or SMS messages'' ====
 * Parse formatted SMS messages or tweets (e.g. key value pairs).
 * Detect when message interpretation isn't certain and dispatch to a human reader (use existing "task" database, or Job Jar, below!).
 * Create database records from parsed messages.
 * BluePrintMessagingModule#Twitter 
 * BluePrintMessagingModule#Micro-Syntax 

==== ''Job Jar -- manage tasks performed on the site, e.g. data entry'' ====
 * Assign tasks to users or let users select tasks.
 * Track who does what, mark completed.
 * Provide administrator UI for defining tasks.
 * Cross-check / verify task, or compare result of two users on same task.
 * Administer tests and training for new workers.

==== ''Upload photos or video from a smart phone'' ====
 * Design a widget (to be included in an Eden form) that can be used to select images or video, with any needed detection of the type of phone.

==== ''Run Eden on a smart phone'' ====
 * See BluePrintMobileClient.
 * Alternate Layout for web view: [wiki:BluePrintCSS#MobileView]
 * Android Application: MobileAndroid
 * Note this [http://gracehopper.org/2010/conference/open-source-track/#session3 GHC session on Android development]!

==== ''Chat with other logged in users'' ====

==== ''Refactor and complete the Survey module'' ====