Sprints
We have sprint rooms reserved for Monday 26th September. So, start your sprint during the weekend conf, and carry over to Monday. Available all day, lunch and refreshmenst will be provided.
Thanks to the PSF Sprints Committee for their support!
Please suggest a sprint here. If you want to take part, please put your name against the appropriate sprint, so we know how many to cater for. Thanks!
CKAN Sprint
Lead by
James Gardner
Location
CC1.6
Description
The Open Knowledge Foundation have a product called CKAN which is an open source data catalog written in Python which powers websites all around the world, including on data.gov.uk.
The two core themes for the sprint are:
- Improving data hosting features (we have some code that scraperwiki share with us too)
- Documenting geospatial features such as the ability to show data on maps and search by location
Any improvements we finish will be deployed on thedatahub.org (the CKAN instance we run for the public with over 2000 data packages already).
Other Ideas
Other ideas for the sprint include:
- adding a popular packages list to the homepage
- adding information about apps or reports that build on the data to the package information
Our full list of tickets can be found here if you want to sprint on other things. CKAN has an extension architecture and good documentation.
Timings
There is a talk on CKAN on Saturday at 10:30 which includes a workshop at 11am. If you want to participate in the CKAN sprint, you'd probably benefit from coming to both. If you don't make it feel free to drop by anyway, we can get you started with no prior knowledge!
Saturday
- 10:30 Talk
- 11:00 Workshop (getting CKAN installed on Ubuntu 10.04)
- 14:20 Sprint starts (with people dropping in and out to go to talks)
- 17:00 Sprint winds down as people go to the keynote and social
Sunday
- 10:20 Sprint starts (with people dropping in and out to go to talks)
- 17:00 Sprint winds down
Monday
- 10:00 - 17:00 Full day sprinting!
Attending
- Irina Bolychevsky
- Adria Mercader
- David Raznick
- John Glover
- Tom Rees
- James Gardner (skype: thejimmyg)
Please feel free to add your name and Skype ID or email to the list if you think you might attend.
pygame sprint
- introduction to hacking on pygame
- finding something fun to do on pygame
Attending pygame sprint
Core Python Sprint
An introduction to Core Python development, led by Michael Foord.
Attending Core Python sprint
- Michael Foord
- John Pinner