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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

Provide feedback on an existing Eden module

• Try it out:
  • You can use:
    • your locally-installed site
    • ​demo site
    • ​user test site for Pakistan floods response
  • Role-play being a user.
  • What do you expect it to do?
  • What features would you want?
  • What do you think the workflow should be?
• Improve it:
  • Find bugs:
    • Try to break it.
    • 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?
    • Request features and suggest improvements.
• Modules that could use some usability improvement:
  • All of them. Well, ok, try these:
  • ​Mapping
  • ​Shelter registry
  • ​Hospital registry
  • ​Person registry
• New or unfinished modules that would benefit from feature and workflow suggestions:
  • ​Logistics
  • ​Volunteer management
  • ​Messaging
  • ​Rapid assessment tool

Help out with a current relief effort

• Pakistan floods
  • Research missing map and location data for PakistanUnionCouncils, part of the GIS location hierarchy.
  • Do you speak Urdu? Help with 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 those just starting with Python or web services

Fix bugs

• Pick from these easy bugs for new Eden developers.

Polish existing modules

• Fix UI issues
• Add features

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.

• Suggestion Box
  • ​http://groups.google.com/group/sahana-eden/browse_thread/thread/bbda1e98b73e1437

• 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: BluePrintMobileClient
  • Alternate Layout for web view: BluePrintCSS
  • Android Application: MobileAndroid
  • Note this [GHC session on Android development ​http://gracehopper.org/2010/conference/open-source-track/#session3]!