List of Project Days
From FOSS.IN/2007
FOSS.in/2007 Will Feature a total of eight Project Days Sessions:
[edit] Debian-Ubuntu
[edit] Proposer
- Karthik Mistry
- Soumyadip Modak
- Onkar Shinde
- Aanjhan Ranganathan
[edit] Project URLs
- About Debian
- Debia-IN Project
- About Ubuntu
- Ubuntu-IN Loco Team
- Debian/Ubuntu Project Days Session Proposal
[edit] Prerequisites
All wannabe developers are welcome. Basic understanding of how Debian/Ubuntu works will be great. Since, we will not focus on how to install stuffs, participants need to be familiar with 'apt-get' magic. Knowledge of shell scripting, Indic technology will make participation more active and fun.
[edit] Proposed Agenda
- Opening Note
- Introduction to Ubuntu, Debian. Introduction to Ubuntu-in, Debian-IN projects
- Quick demo of upcoming Ubuntu/Debian releases
- Contributing to Debian and Ubuntu..
- L10n, Bug Hunting, Coding, Installers and so on..
- Workshop: Package building process and maintenance
- Introduction to BTS:
- Ubuntu Launchpad and Debian BTS
- Bug reporting and tracking and related subjects
- Effectively use of BTS
- Indic and Font issues in Debian and Ubuntu: Hunt for current issues
- BSP (Bug Squashing Party)
- Keysigning Party
[edit] Fedora
[edit] Proposer
- Debarshi Ray
- Kushal Das
- Rahul Sundaram
[edit] Project URLs
[edit] Prerequisites
Interest in learning, getting involved and contributing to the Fedora Project. The project day is proposed to achieve the getting together of existing Indian contributors (particularly perhaps the GSoC participants) in order to allow them to discuss their work and help in building new contributors. Base level understanding of Fedora roadmap and familiarity with some of the various Fedora subprojects. eg. Translation and L10N, Documentation, LiveCD, Packaging would be good to have.
[edit] Proposed Agenda
- Fedora - Leading Free software (Opening remarks, Status and Future)
- Google Summer of Code time (GSoC participants get blitz face time to show-n-tell)
- Become a contributor to Fedora (lightning talks with show-n-tell)
- how to contribute
- packaging
- bug triaging
- documentation
- i18n and l10n -- an l10n review sprint for Indic languages and Transifex (https://hosted.fedoraproject.org/projects/transifex/)
- Fedora - Upstream and Derivatives (Talk on Projects where Fedora is upstream and derivatives like RHEL and OLPC)
- Porting Fedora to more architectures (Sparc, ARM, Alpha, IA64...) (https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/ArchTeam)
- Smolt - Keeping track of Linux users and organizational deployments. Smolt can be extended to be a community maintained hardware compatibility database.
- Fedora - Security and SELinux
- Virtualization - Integration and Management.
- Spin your own Fedora -- Why, what, how, when --Covering live cd tools, revisor (http://revisor.fedoraunity.org/) and wevisor
- Live Images
- Regular Images
- Fedora On USB
- Workshops
- Packaging
- Transifex (https://hosted.fedoraproject.org/projects/transifex/)
- Revisor (http://revisor.fedoraunity.org/)
[edit] Gnome
[edit] Proposer
- Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
[edit] Project URLs
[edit] Prerequisites
Interest in getting involved and contributing to GNOME. Familiarity with the GNOME roadmap, i18n and l10n, documentation, bug triaging would be good to have.
[edit] Proposed Agenda
- Getting together the largest possible number of GNOME contributors from India
- Demonstration of what they are working on
- GSoC time (GSoC participants get to talk about their work)
- Contribute to GNOME
- l10n
- i18n
- documentation
- bug triaging
- applications that need love
- GNOME and a11y demonstration and discussion
- Tutorial on glib/gtk/gstreamer/gobject
- Gnome Cool Talk: All new cool things in gnome: Clutter, Online desktop, Tracker.
- Mobile Gnome: Hildon Desktop and Ubuntu Mobile Initiative.
[edit] IndLinux
[edit] Proposer
- G Karunakar
[edit] Project URLs
[edit] Prerequisites
Interest & willingness to contribute to i18n &l10n of FOSS in Indian languages. Some experience in using Indic with FOSS tools. Interested in promoting & deploying Indian language solutions.
[edit] Proposed Agenda
- Introduction to Project, current status of Indic Localization
- ToDo areas of activity
- How to contribute, required skills etc.
- Discussion, Q/A.
[edit] KDE
[edit] Proposer
- Pradeepto Bhattacharya
[edit] Project URLs
[edit] Prerequisites
Programming knowledge, but knowledge of OOPs and C++ would be an advantage. But let that not be an show stopper. The "Concepts and Framework" workshop might be just for you. If you are an artists or an writer there will be talks and information for you as well.
[edit] Proposed Agenda
- Introduction
- KDE Concepts and Frameworks
- How to be a part of the gang?
- Large scale KDE deployments
- Test Driven Development with Qt and KDE
- The Future
- Where KDE goes from here? ( Now that KDE 4 is a reality :)
- Small Talk ( No, we don't plan to port KDE to SmallTalk ;)
- Speed Breaker Talks.
- During breaks ... so that you don't leave the room on silly pretexts. Yeah, we have thought about it all, you know.
[edit] Mozilla
[edit] Proposer
- Seth Bindernagel
[edit] Project URLs
[edit] Prerequisites
Interest in learning more about Mozilla. All participants are welcome. Some knowledge of the localization process or knowledge of the XUL programming language, JavaScript, and/or the Mozilla platform would be helpful, but is not required.
[edit] Proposed Agenda
- Shine some light on Indian contributors, specifically mentioning where work has been done.
- Mozilla Indian contributors to participate and discuss what they have been contributing.
[edit] OpenOffice.org
[edit] Proposer
- Louis Suarez-Potts
[edit] Project URLs
[edit] Prerequisites
Interest in contributing to OpenOffice.org
[edit] Proposed Agenda
- Future Options
- OpenDocument Format (ODF)
- OpenOffice.org architecture
- UNO: The Universal Network Objects
- Creating extensions
- l10n, ICU and Indic rendering for OpenOffice.org
[edit] OpenSolaris
[edit] Proposer
- Shivakumar GN
[edit] Project URLs
[edit] Prerequisites
Being Comfortable with a Linux/UNIX development environment would help participants very much for the more developer oriented talks
[edit] Proposed Agenda
- OpenSolaris Introduction
- Belenix & Indiana
- Getting to know developement details (programming & packaging details)
- Debugging & System Analysis unplugged
- Getting to know OpenSolaris codebase and the development environments
