India Hackathon 2011/Schedule notes
Morning plenary session (9:30-10:30)
[edit]Session description
[edit]- Goal 1: Communicate key hackathon themes and goals
- Goal 2: Equip attendees with base level knowledge to help them get to productivity ASAP
- Will be followed by people signing up into teams, from proposed topics or newly proposed ones
- Additional teaching will be done as part of group activity; we may want to set up some additional focused tutorials on more complex topics (e.g. Intro to Phonegap)
Structure
[edit]- Welcome
- Why we're here: I18N, Mobile, Offline => Access to Knowledge
- We're successful if ...
- Check-ins (let's keep track of the rough % responses):
- How many people are actively doing development work in PHP?
- How many people are actively doing development in JavaScript? How many are familiar with jQuery?
- How many have done mobile development work? For iPhone? For Android? Has anyone used Phonegap?
- Who is familiar with MediaWiki? As a user, as a developer?
- Have you used git? svn?
- Introduction to the technical topics
- [EM] General architecture
- Key components
- Checkout - via SVN (if you're more comfortable with it than git, but note that you'll have to make a patch)
- Checkout - via Github mirror (MediaWiki core, all MediaWiki extensions, MobileFrontend extension, l10n/i18n extensions)
- Note: We're working with the development version, so things may break!
- Installer
- Note common gotchas, e.g. is PHP set up correctly, do we have the MySQL library, is the image directory writable
- Modifying LocalSettings.php after the installation
- Setting up extensions
- Use of maintenance/update.php
- Demoing some example extension setup/configuration/use
- Setting up and building the Nitobi app
- Brief development practice notes
SMS & USSD Development Intro session (10:30-10:45)
[edit]Session description
[edit]- Intro to SMS/USSD using Praekelt's vumi
- Restrictions on SMS & USSD
- How to be involved in the dev work
- Intro to Wikipedia on SMS via txtweb, Intuit
- Mass usage of Wikipedia SMS app on txtWeb
- How to develop on txtWeb and contribute more on the Wikipedia app
Groups Day 1
[edit]I18N
[edit]- Font delivery: 6 people - (Siebrand)
- Font testing: 4 people - (Pravin)
- On-screen keyboard: 5 people - (Amir)
- Indic language support matrix: 4 people - (Gerard/Siebrand)
- Incubator/Narayam support: 3 people - (Niklas)
- UI for language selection: 4 people - (Brandon)
Mobile
[edit]- Potentially: Contribution - 2 people
- Zero - 1 person
- SMS/txtweb - 6 people (Amit)
- Mobile UI - 5 people (Phil)
- wikipedia.org for mobile 2 people (Patrick)
- Android app - 4 people (Tomasz)
Offline
[edit]Emmanuel, please put notes here :-)
Other ideas
[edit]- smsspeak UI
- Wikipedia Television
Groups Day 2
[edit]I18N
[edit]- Font evaluation: 7 people (Santhosh)
- On-screen keyboard: 5 people - (Amir)
- Language support teams and CLDR evaluation: 4 people (Gerard)
- Narayam improvements: 4 people (Santhosh/Robin)
- UI for language selection: 3 people - (Brandon)
Mobile
[edit]- Zero - 1 person
- SMS/txtweb/setting up vumi on Wikimedia Labs - 3 people (Amit)
- Mobile UI - 5 people (Phil)
- wikipedia.org for mobile 2 people (Patrick)
- Android app - 4 people (Tomasz)
Offline
[edit]- Kiwix improvements: localization, introduction to Kiwix development - 3 people (Emmanuel)
Other
[edit]- Bug smashing - 4 people - Sumana
Other ideas
[edit]- smsspeak UI
- Wikipedia Television
Notes
[edit]Range of skills
- PHP: 16
- JS: 8-10
- Mobile: 7-8
- iOS: 3
- Android: 5
- PhoneGap: 2
- MediWiki: 15
- Extensions: 3-4
- GIT: 10+
- GitHub: 5-7
- SVN: 10+
- No VCS use: 0
Day 1 outcomes
[edit]As presented by group/project leads:
- Santhosh: We tested the Lohit family of fonts for coverage. We found some of the bugs, and we updated the version of the fonts used in WebFonts. See etherpad:LohitFonts
- Amir:
- New Narayam keyboard mappings: Marathi, Urdu, Punjabi
- On-screen keyboard
- Niklas: Narayam ready for Wikimedia Incubator, Wikimedia Mobile ready for translation
- Gerard: Indic language matrix updated
- Emmanuel:
- Kiwix translation sprint: 4 new Indic languages added
- Phil/Tomasz/Patrick:
- Tutorials on Phonegap and MobileFrontend
- Initial implementation of WP Zero
- git tutorials
- Getting ready for Wikipedia USSD prototype
- Brandon:
- Language selection prototypes developed
- SMS support for Wikipedia -- making it easier to get selections of content. Specs are done.
- txtweb plugin for "Did you know" articles from Main Page done
- Spec for mobile phone translation UI done
- ShortURL extension improvements
- Coding challenge mobile photo uploader backported to Android 2.2
Day 2 outcomes
[edit]As presented by the project leads
- SMS/txtWeb group
- User can get crisp infobox details of an article.
- TOC(Table of contents) implementation. User sends @wiki keyword -toc and it renders the table of contents as SMS links, which user can go deeper into by replying with letter links - WIP
- Summary - Intelligent summary of a wikipedia page on SMS - WIP
- Mobile (Phil)
- Ideas around changing the user interface developed into mockups
- "Related random page" -- show random page that's related to the current one
- "What links here" -- ranking them by pageviews, by ratings, etc.
- Wikipedia Zero prototype implemented in MobileFrontend
- Android app (photo uploader and official app) ported to 2.2.
- Share with feature MobileFrontend / Android app
- New mobile landing page
- Ideas around changing the user interface developed into mockups
- Input methods (Santhosh)
- Tons of new input methods added
- Fonts updated and default fixed based on feedback
- Wikipedia over USSD (Jeremy)
- Prototype built, needs some cleanup and API support
- On-screen keyboard
- Protoype built in Narayam
- Language selection
- New UI prototypes developed, will be posted soon
- Kiwix
- New localizations