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Table of Contents

    1. Events and Programs
      1. Google Code In 2010 (GIC)
      2. Grace Hopper Celebration Codeathon for Humanity 2010 (GHC)
  2. Non-Coding Projects
    1. Project: Testing
      1. Role-Play Being a User
      2. Report Tickets
    2. Project: Documentation
    3. Project: Ticket Verification
    4. Project: Collate Organisation List
    5. Project: Stock Taking of Humanitarian Catalogues
    6. Project: Scenario Cards
    7. Project: Icons
      1. Map Markers
      2. Cluster/Sector Icons
      3. Application Icons
    8. Action Icons
    9. Project: Sahana Eden Theme
  3. Infrastructure Projects
    1. Project: Trac Theme
    2. Project: Improve Installation Documentation
  4. Basic Coding Projects
    1. Easy Tickets
    2. Feature Enhancements
    3. Building Assessments
    4. Geocoding
    5. Ideas: GIS/Mapping
    6. Suggestion Box
    7. SysAdmin
  5. Advanced Coding Projects
    1. GIS/Mapping
    2. Fix Web2Py Cron on Win32 Service
    3. Framework
    4. Test Automation
    5. Tweet / SMS Parsing
    6. Sending Tweets
    7. Job Jar
    8. Mobile Photo/Video Upload
    9. Run Eden on a smart phone
    10. Installation Web Interface
    11. Chat in Sahana
    12. Survey Application
    13. OCR
    14. New Use Cases
    15. Image Library
    16. Misc. Projects

Project Information

This page contains ideas for projects which contributors with diverse skills and expertise can work on. Projects are into:

People are welcome to start working on any project which interests them. They are advised to notify Mailing List first, to get the latest status of the project and ensure that there is no overlap and are welcome to contact community members on Chat for assistance.

Events and Programs

This list is used to provide projects for people attending various Sahana Events and Programs. Projects which are suitable for a specific event or program will be marked with its initials, however people associated with these events are welcome to work on other projects.

Google Code In 2010 (GIC)

​Google Code In 2010-11

Grace Hopper Celebration Codeathon for Humanity 2010 (GHC)

GHC2010 Sahana-Eden Home Each Codeathon table has an etherpad page for collaboration -- find your table's page here .

Non-Coding Projects

Projects that do not involve Coding but may involve design, using the software, writing documentation, etc.

Project: Testing

GCI

Role-Play Being a User

Report Tickets

See: Reporting Guidelines

  • What do you expect it to do? What did happen?
  • What additional features would you want?
  • What do you think the workflow should be? Report unclear/inconvenient workflow
  • Additional/clearer help text required. Suggest tooltips (help info) for fields on forms.
  • Was there something you wanted that wasn't available?

Project: Documentation

GCI
We need instructions for how to use some of our applications (listed below). We have some instructions on the UserGuidelines page -- this can be a starting point. For applications that have no instructions, the User Guideline Template tells what the form of the instructions should be. The instructions are posted on the Sahana Eden wiki, so you'll need an account to edit the wiki. Some instructions are in Google Docs and need to be put in the wiki.

  • Pick one of the applications. (For GCI, pick the task for the application you want.)
  • Look at the short description of the application below to see what the application is for. Look at any instructions that are already available for the application, linked from the UserGuidelines page.
  • Pretend you're a user. Try out the application -- try entering data and looking it up. (Look at the ProjectInformation section for more on thinking like a user.)
  • Things to look at:
    • Do the current instructions match the way the application is now?
    • Are there application features that have no instructions?
    • Are the instructions confusing?
    • Do the instructions fit the User Guideline Template?
  • To edit the instructions:
    • Register on eden.sahanafoundation.org and log in.
    • Make a new wiki page by going to its url in your browser. For instance, if the application's current wiki page is called IncidentReporting, make one called NewIncidentReporting by going to http://eden.sahanafoundation.org/wiki/NewIncidentReporting in your browser. Click create new page.
    • In the current instructions, click edit this page. Copy the wiki text to the new page and save that one. Cancel the edit in the original page. Now you can edit the new page without any worry about making a mistake. Save your work often!
    • There is information about editing the wiki and wiki formatting.

In particular we need documentation for:

  • Organisation Registry
  • Assessment
  • Request Management
  • Project Tracking
  • Volunteer Management
  • Inventory/Warehouse Management
  • Incident Reporting

Project: Ticket Verification

GCI
Some of our bug reports (tickets) have been left open even though they've been fixed. Others don't have much information. We'd like you to go through some tickets to see if they're done or if they need more information.

  • Look at the bug testing project description for the web sites to test (or for installing your own copy if the software, if you'd rather).
  • Go through the list of open bugs. Look at reports that have type "defect". Try to reproduce the problem reported in the ticket:
    • If the issue is gone, add a reply to the ticket with what you did and "resolve" the ticket as "invalid". (The submitter can still reply and reopen the bug if they want.)
    • If you can reproduce the issue but the description isn't clear, add better "how to reproduce" instructions.
    • If you can't figure out what the ticket means, add a reply that tells the ticket reporter what info would be helpful.

Project: Collate Organisation List

GCI
Collate a list of organisations involved in Emergency Management from multiple sources, for use in future emergencies. See full description ​here.

Project: Stock Taking of Humanitarian Catalogues

GCI
Prepare a Stock Taking Report to assess what Humanitarian Catalogues are available which could be pre-populated into Sahana

Some Sources to Start with (you will need to search to find additional catalogues ):

For each Catalog list:

  • Source
  • Date of Publishing
  • Data model (what data "fields" are their for each item?)
  • Categories / Sub-categories - What is the list/hierarchy they use.
  • Number of Items
  • Summary Description

Document this report at BaselineSupplyCatalog

Project: Scenario Cards

GCI
Running simulations of disaster scenarios is crucial to:

  1. Test that Sahana works correctly
  2. Train people to use Sahana
  3. Familiarise programmers with the Disaster management domain.
  4. Interest people in the project

We have a number of different resources on simulations currently available:

You can also search the internet (please add additional resources to this page)

We need to develop a series (deck) of cards which depict Disaster Scenarios which can be put together (maybe in order, maybe randomly) to create a simulation. It would be wise to share your initial ideas with the mailing list, as there are a number of people with a wealth of domain knowledge who will be able to guide you.

Post any images and files (in an open data format) at TrainingSimulationsScenarioCards

Project: Icons

GCI
Sahana Eden could be made more visually appealing by having icons designed.

Map Markers

  • Projects (See BluePrintProjectManagement)
  • Activities
  • Tasks
  • Offices
  • Warehouses
  • Requests
  • Incidents
  • Assessments
  • Camps / Temporary Shelters

Cluster/Sector Icons

  • Agriculture
  • Camp Coordination/Management
  • Early Recovery
  • Education
  • Emergency Shelter
  • Emergency Telecommunications
  • Health
  • Logistics
  • Nutrition
  • Water Sanitation Hygiene

Application Icons

  • Organisation Registry
  • Inventory/Warehouse Management
  • Incident Reporting
  • Request Management
  • Assessments
  • Project Tracking
  • Map

Action Icons

  • Open
  • Delete

Project: Sahana Eden Theme

GCI
The design of Sahana Eden could be enhanced greatly with everything from a better colour scheme (for example, the grey menu blends into the browser which is confusing) to making more efficient use of space. If you're more of a web designer than programmer, your input is greatly needed. If you could come up with static designs for the following pages, or programmers can do their thing and make Sahana Eden beautiful. If you can design and program, even better!

Infrastructure Projects

Projects that may involved varying degrees of technical skills, but not programming.

Project: Trac Theme

GCI
Design a new theme for the Sahana Eden Trac wiki. See:

Provide screen shots of this design and all of the files required to install this theme on the Sahana Eden server.

Project: Improve Installation Documentation

We have been concentrating on Windows & Debian/Ubuntu, but better documentation could be provide for other distributions:

  • ???

Basic Coding Projects

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

Easy Tickets

GCI

Feature Enhancements

  • Fix UI issues, add features, provide user-requested enhancements.
  • 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 for a typical workflow?
    • Make appropriate changes.
    • Is there a common sort of menu that would be useful?

Building Assessments

We had a basic Building Assessments tool added to Sahana recently (which is based on the ATC forms), although it was done in a Web2Py style & so didn't get completed & isn't yet merged to Trunk.

The Data model is all there, so just needs the S3 REST Controller plugging-in & then using components to get sections onto Tabs (as per Rapid Assessment Tool).

This would be a real nice easy project to learn the beauty of the S3 Framework & would really add value :)

Current code is here:

Geocoding

A favorite missing feature is 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.

Ideas: GIS/Mapping

These are a number of various GIS/Mapping Tasks:

  • Use the GeoCoder (geolocate function in controllers/gis.py) to lookup location Lat/Lons
  • Add a delay to the onHover tooltip (highlightControl)
  • Integrate ​Potlatch
    • for editing the main OSM database
    • for editing a local OSM database
  • Make the display_feature() & display_features() popup a Window instead of opening in a DIV
  • Replace the Measure Length/Area tools with ​GeoExt.ux
  • Option to go Full screen & back
    • Full screen view (No Ext window) will be required for use on a small-screen, such as a Mobile device
  • ​Layer Tree
    • Separate Overlays folder into Internal/External
    • Sub-folders of Overlays e.g. for:
      • Projects by Theme
      • Projects by Donor
  • Get a pr/person/presence record upon login if HTML5 GeoLocation available & not changed since last time
    • login_next
  • Map Preview when Lat/Lon set in pr/person/presence (auto or not)

Suggestion Box

Here are some potential features for a "suggestion box", roughly in order of priority:

  • Text data entry form -- just use standard Eden database fields like "timestamp", "authorstamp", and "comments", maybe with a subject field.
  • Allow defining topics or keywords. Let user choose a topic for their suggestion. Add all module names as an initial list of topics.
  • Simple search in the body of posts -- match words.
  • Regexp search.
  • Allow commenting on (replying to) suggestions -- show comment thread with original post.
  • Some form of importance rating (e.g. voting up or down).
  • Original suggestion from: ​http://groups.google.com/group/sahana-eden/browse_thread/thread/bbda1e98b73e1437

SysAdmin

Advanced Coding Projects

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.

Fuller list of Projects being scoped: BluePrints

GIS/Mapping

These are a number of GIS/Mapping Tasks to be done:

  • Allow Sahana to import Wikipedia locations easily
  • Popup to do Advanced Search for a Field (better than simple AutoComplete)
  • Finish the multi-file upload widget in Bulk Uploader
    • Port from Ext-2.2.1 to Ext-3.2.1

Fix Web2Py Cron on Win32 Service

Web2Py has a nice Cron utility, but this doesn't work currently on Win32 in Service mode: #438

Framework

Test Automation

Tweet / SMS Parsing

Allow users to provide info via tweets or SMS messages

Sending Tweets

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.

Mobile Photo/Video Upload

  • 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

Installation Web Interface

For customizing new Eden sites. See notes toward web-based setup and customization: BluePrintWebSetup.

Chat in Sahana

With other logged in users

  • Provide a chat board through which users can help each other or get help from the system administrator.
  • Perhaps have one chat for each organization or project.
  • Is there existing IRC or other chat software that could be incorporated?

Survey Application

The survey module was started during GSoC this summer. The author will be online on freenode #sahana-ghc under the nicknames robbyoconnor or r0bby|android during the Codeathon.

  • Change it so that it uses "components" to relate survey sections to the survey, and questions to the survey sections.
  • Please keep in mind that the survey tool should be able to support question data types (defined in the user guidelines)
  • Ideally, the look and feel of the surveys should be modeled after the Rapid Assessment Tool (rat) module. (See models/rat.py and controllers/rat.py to get an idea of what needs to happen.)
  • We are aiming to allow non-technical users to create surveys similar to what was done in the rat module.
  • Additional Resources: User Guidelines
  • If this project is undertaken, please update the wiki documentation to match.

OCR

Optical Character Recognition

  • Integrate an OCR tool developed for GSoC into Eden.

New Use Cases

Extensions to support:

  • Organizations such as ​Ten Thousand Villages assist craftspeople in disadvantaged countries organize to purchase supplies and market their crafts. What would such a crafts coop need to help run their business? What's missing from Eden to support this?
  • ​Maitri provides support to victims of domestic violence.
    • They have a ​page listing resources but part of the page is organized topically and the rest by location. Consider how to store the resource data to allow displaying it either by topic or by location, and also make it searchable.
    • Look at the ​volunteer page. Compare with the existing (incomplete) volunteer module. What additional features might Maitri need to use the Eden volunteer module?

Image Library

Misc. Projects

To be elaborated on later:

  • Image Importer
  • YouTube Importer
  • User Statistics

BluePrints

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