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Sahana 2010-11 Google Code-In Ideas Page

The following section should be considered FYI and legacy. Please do not add to the task list here.

Project Ideas for the Google Code-In need to fit into one of the categories listed below. Ideas within each category should be sorted from Easy, through Moderate to Difficult. Please put in brackets which project these refer to e.g. Agasti, Eden, Standards, Community Development.

Example:

(E) sample easy task (Agasti) - description
(M) sample moderate task (Eden) - description
(D) sample difficult task (Standards) - description

1. Code: Tasks related to writing or refactoring code

(E/M/D) Refer to Project Information for a list of projects, some of which are marked as suitable for GCI (Eden)

2. Documentation: Tasks related to creating/editing documents

(E) Application Documentation (Eden) - For each application (each of these would be a separate task):
- Document work flow on the Wiki
- Draw work flow diagram(s)
- Prepare Screen Capture Video to demonstrate work flow

3. Outreach: Tasks related to community management and outreach/marketing

(D) Sahana Software Foundation Logo - Develop new logo, complete with related branding (Fonts, Colors, Document & Slide Templates)
(D) Sahana Eden Logo - Develop new logo, complete with related branding (Fonts, Colors, Document & Slide Templates)
(D) Sahana Agasti Logo - Develop new logo, complete with related branding (Fonts, Colors, Document & Slide Templates)
(D) Sahana Homepage (Eden/Agasti/Standards) - Develop a new homepage along with custom drupal theme.
(D) Dokuwiki Theme - Develop a new theme for the main Sahana Software Foundation wiki
(D) Trac Theme - Develop a new theme for the Sahana Eden Wiki

4. Testing: Tasks related to testing and ensuring code is of high quality

(M) Report 5 Bugs (Eden) - Instructions. The bugs must be verified by a community member.
(M) Report 5 Bugs (Agasti) - Instructions. The bugs must be verified by a community member.
(M) Verify 10 Bugs (Eden) - Instructions
(M) Verify 10 Bugs (Agasti)

5. Research: Tasks related to studying a problem and recommending solutions

(M) Identifying and Cleaning Data Sources (Eden/Standards) - these can be imported into instances of Sahana, eg:
- Inventory Item catalogues
- Organisation Lists. Compile from:
  - Haiti Instance (from Archive)
  - Pakistan Instance
  - DRR Project Portal
  - UN OCHA 3W (Who What Where) database
- World Bank Data http://data.worldbank.org/
(M) Messaging standards (or emergency communication protocols)
- For the list of Emergency Data Exchange Language (EDXL) standards below, give a short description of each standard, develop a matrix of the generic Sahana modules that should be adopting or have adopted the standard(s) as the under-pined messaging protocol; define a set of FAQs for developers (i.e.how, who, when, and where a standard should be implemented); provide references to literature (available code/applications, developer forums, case studies, etc), give links to XML DTD documents - (this exercise applies to both Eden and Agasti)
  - EDXL-CAP (Common Alerting Protocol)
  - EDXL-SitRep (Situational Reporting)
  - EDXL-DE (Distribution Element)
  - EDXL-HAVE (Hospital Availability Exchange)
  - EDXL-TEP (Tracking Emergency Patients)
  - EDXL-RM (Resource Messaging)

6. Training: Tasks related to helping others learn more

(D) Develop Scenario Cards (Eden) - Based on the documented work flows, disaster management case studies develop Scenario cards which can be followed, one at a time, to create a disaster management simulation. Various scenarios could be developed, and ideally combined.