On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 2:37 PM, Paul Poulain <paul.poulain@biblibre.com> wrote:
Hello everybody,
3 weeks ago we had our 1st IRC meeting about the next KohaCon in India. It seems I've been selected to start the discussion about the Hackfest !
We've had 3 KohaCon already : one in France (2006) one in USA (2009), one in NZ (2010). In Marseille, it lasted one week and was mostly about hacking. In USA it lasted 3 days, we had one day (and a half ?) teaching new developers how to hack, then one day hacking In NZ it lasted 3 days too. the 1st day was dedicated to some -technical- lightning talks (http://www.kohacon10.org.nz/2010/hackfest/index.html), then teaching new hackers, then doing a few hacking
What should be the hackfest in India then ? We have two goals during those meetings: welcome new developers, and do some real hacking: it's very efficient to work in the same room and without clock/time differences !
I proposed during the first IRC meeting to split the hackfest in 2 sub-parts, each of them dealing with one goal: * Hackfest part 1 = "become a Koha developper" * Hackfest part 2 = "do some hacking". We could say part1 is about theory, and part2 is about practising what we've learned on part1 ;-) (and of course, ppl coming for part1 would/should/could stay for part2 !)
The 1st part would be dedicated to teaching Koha to ppl wanting to know how to join: things like using git, Koha source code organisation, Koha database, working with templates, dealing with translations, submitting patches. kmkale suggested to have 2 days for this part, just before sunday (that would be a day-off)
Yes, the conference is from Monday 31st October to Wednesday 2nd November. On Thursday 3rd November, we are tentatively planning a day trip to Mumbai. It will be a nice break after 3 days of conference. ( Nothing is fixed yet about the day trip. It depends on peoples interest. It might not be a bad idea to let me know if you are interested in the day trip as well.. ). We can have the first 2 days "Learning to Hack Koha" or "become a Koha developper" part of Hackfest on Friday 4th November & Saturday 5th November. Then again a break on Sunday 6th November. ( Shopping anyone? ;) )
The 2nd part would be dedicated to hacking: showing what is underway, showing POC if applicable (Proof of Concept), playing with bugzilla, writing unit tests,...
How long could/should it last ? There are 2 opinions here: - staying & taking time is expensive, so not too long - once you're here, we must make the trip worth, so as long as possible What's your opinion on this matter ? Mine is that once we're here, we must stay as long as possible, those meetings are precious. So how long should this part last ? kmkale said there will be a room available for us for as long as we want. My proposition would be to say 3 days (mon-wed): not too short, we will be able to do useful things, not too long, we'll be back home on tuesday, before or for the next week-end, back to work next monday.
3 days * Hackfest part 2 = "do some hacking" +1 on my part. So it could be from Monday 7th November to Wednesday 9th November.
What's your opinion on those ideas ? anything to add ? Feel free to give your opinion, nothing has been decided yet !
-- Paul POULAIN
Yup, we need feedback from the Koha developer community on this so that the program could be finalised & people can start booking flights and hotels. Regards, Koustubha Kale Anant Corporation Contact Details : Address : 103, Armaan Residency, R. W Sawant Road, Nr. Golden Dyes Naka, Thane (w), Maharashtra, India, Pin : 400601. TeleFax : +91-22-21720108, +91-22-21720109 Mobile : +919820715876 Website : http://www.anantcorp.com Blog : http://www.anantcorp.com/blog/?author=2