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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

• Role-play being a user:
  • Try it out -- you can use:
    • your locally-installed site
    • ​demo site
    • ​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.
    • 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.
  • 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 easy bugs for new Eden developers.

Polish existing modules

• Fix UI issues, add features, provide user-requested enhancements.
  • You can pick from these feature requests.
  • Or talk to the folks at the Codeathon who are 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: BluePrintCSS
• Android Application: MobileAndroid
• Note this ​GHC session on Android development!

Chat with other logged in users

Refactor and complete the Survey module