Introduction

A "Work Out" is an intense period of work either focused around specific tasks or a specific event where a number of Sahanians are together (eg. a FOSS Conference). Perhaps we can call them "Sahanathons".
(Feel free to modify this definition)

Format

They could either be held in a physical location with a group of Sahanian, or virtually (perhaps over the period of a week), or a combination of both.

Proposed Virtual Schedule

7 days Pre-Sahanathon:

• Prepare a task list
• Gather a list of interested people

Day 1

• IRC Chat. Introductions, Q&A and Task Allocation

Daily

• Have a roster for providing help on IRC
• Report back on Achievements, Commits, Problems by email
• Scheduled IRC meeting
• Daily Prize for best achievement(virtual/physical?)

Wrap Up

• Summarize Achievements
• Prize Giving
  • Most task completely
  • Best New Sahanian
  • Comminuty Spirit Award
  • Longest Continual Coding (no to encourage sleep deprivation)
  • Overall
• Lessons Learnt
• Task for next time

Proposed Work Outs

Any of these could potentially be merged...

Spring Clean

There seem to be a number of things which we could do to make the code more "beautiful", easier to read and easier to work with. This could be a good opportunity for people new to the code to get a deeper understanding of how it all works, while the more experienced can offer advise + checking).
These ideas are just proposals...

• Getting rid of the database reserved keyword warnings
• Replaced repeated code with functions (or document existing code)
  • A pop-up wrapper
  • Auto-complete widget
  • Easily generated tables to insert into pages
  • shn_get_db_field_value
  • shn_crud_strings
  • Function for generating Graphs
• Standardized coding conventions:
  • header information to all code files (docstrings rather than comments)
  • variable/field/function naming
  • Coding style conventions: ​PEP 8 resp. ​Intermezzo
  • " vs '
  • Documenting functions and response.s3 variables (insert docstrings and epydoc fields for automated API documentation)
• Moving imported data out of code and into csv/xml files
• moving standard variable definitions (truncate = 16) into a configuration file, using #defs?
• Ensure that all cross module functionality (SMS, GIS, Email) have easily accessible, easily integrated functions, API even?
• "Organisation" vs "Organization" - OK, I speak the Queen's English too, but after working for an American "Organization", I now get confused - can we just change it to "Org" in the code?
• Standardize the location of code (what code should go into M,V and C..). This could include embedding JS in the controllers to pass it to the View.
• Extend the Restful Controller to automatically generate: Search Reports, Printable Forms, Printable Reports.
• Avoid necessity of numeric prefixes for models by using #include in the correct order (is this possible?)
• Graceful degrading of JS
• "tooltip" class shouldn't be specific to help. Perhaps we need a more specific help_tooltip class? What is the distinction between tooltip and ajaxtip
• create a CSS master document , describing the various classes, and where they are used

Learning the Framework

Especially for GSOC Students and Mentors

• Using BZR
• REST Controller, XML Interface
• GIS

This could also be a good opportunity to improve some of the documentation. Doing it while teaching the framework, identifying gaps and filling them.

GSOC Student Selection

• Some sort of workout to gauge the skills and interests of students
• Could be combined with either of the top 2 workouts
• Student applications must be completed by 9 April, the organization must select students by 21st April. A good time for the workout could be the week of the 12th - 18th of April
• Developing a volunteer management module

Interested Sahanians

Michael Howden

Skills

• Python (Intermediate)
• HTML(Intermediate)
• JS (Intermediate)
• CSS (Beginner)
• SQL (Intermediate)
• Cooking Dal (advanced)
• Mixing Cocktails (entirely subjective!)

Available

13th - 18th April
Limited availability during the rest of April.
8th May onwards.

Working UTC: 0100 - 1700

Interested in…

• Coordination
• Anything which no one else wants to do

Dominic König

Skills

• Python (Beginner)
• HTML(Beginner)
• JS (Beginner)
• CSS (Beginner)
• SQL (Beginner)

Available

1st - 20th April
Limited availability during the rest of April.
8th May onwards.

Working UTC: 1900 - 0200

Interested in…

• Core Component Enhancements
• Coding Conventions
• UI Improvements

Abhishek Mishra

Skills

• Python (loving it)
• HTML (is the body)
• CSS (is the clothing)
• JS

Available

Mostly on weekends
Availability in April depends on college schedules :(
Exams in May's 1st two weeks
13th May onwards.

Working UTC: TBD

Interested in…

• Spring clean tasks
• UI Improvements
• Research theming support
• Learning more web2py, sahana-eden
• any Ext/jQuery tasks

Praneeth Bodduluri

Skills

• Python ()
• HTML (hack through)
• CSS (hack through)
• JS (hack through)
• Sysadmin (Beginner)

Available

Not available during the last 2 weeks of April
5th May onwards.

Working UTC: TBD

Interested in…

• Spring clean tasks
• Benchmarking different deployment options
• Unit Tests
• Documentation

Robert O'Connor

Skills

• Python(willing to learn?)
• HTML (can get by!)
• JS (can get by!)
• CSS (can get by!)

Availability

Weekends
Classes still in session, spring break just concluded... classes end 3rd week of may..
So I'd say sporadic
Working UTC: TBD

Interested in…

• Learning web2py and sahana-eden
• Getting my skills up to par for Google Summer of Code 2010
• Making an impact :)

Shikhar Kohli

Skills

• Python(gotta love it)
  
• HTML
  
• CSS(can hack through)
  
• JS(jQuery)
  
• SQL (basic)
  

Availability
Available in April
Exams from 5th to 22nd May, freedom after that
Working UTC:TBD

Interested in

• Sahana Eden source(still learning :) )
  
• Integrating Python libraries to facilitate importing of spreadsheets to database(spread sheet importer project)
  
• Core component improvement
  
• Documentation