FOSS4G 2010 Code Sprint

Organizing Contacts

• Wladimir Szczerban, Enric Rodellas

Code Sprint - what's that?

A code sprint is usually organized by a group that is using an open source project and wants to see something done. They fly the developers to a single location and feed them for a couple of days with the necessities of the hacking life (internet, caffeine, electricity). The communication that happens from face to face hacking usually lasts the project for a year or more. You see this a lot in projects like Drupal etc...

Venue

For map and more details see

• Date: Friday, 10 Sep 2010 (the day after the conference).
• Time: 9am-5pm  (timeandate) 
• Where: Citilab-Cornellà

Citilab-Cornellà
Phone: +34 93 551 06 60
Fax: +34 93 551 06 78
web Citilab 
Pl. Can Suris s/n
08940 Cornellà de Llobregat (Barcelona)

• Rooms: A+B+C
• online maps

More than 100 attendees are expected!

Motivation and Direction

A day, a code base, and your imagination?

Projects can use the time and venue for organizational discussions, development roadmaps, and group resolution of thorny issues in their code bases.

Is this your First Sprint? Here is some background information to get you started:

• http://www.infrae.com/about/activities/sprintathon/tips
• http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/python/2006/10/19/running-a-sprint.html
• Example Sprint (from same people who do GeoServer): http://www.openplans.org/projects/bbq-sprint

Visit FOSS4G past experiences: 2009, 2008, 2007

Additional Interested People

The following people are potentially interested in participating in sprinting activities though have not yet established a Workgroup.

• Frank Warmerdam: GDAL, MapServer, PROJ.4, OSGeo4W
• Mike Smith: GDAL, MapServer, PROJ.4, OSGeo4W
• Ari Jolma: GDAL
• Chaitanya kumar CH: GDAL
• Andrea Aime: GeoServer, GeoTools

Workgroups

To participate, copy a project skeleton and start a section below for your project.

OpenLayers

Attending:

• Tim Schaub
• Christopher Schmidt
• Eric Lemoine
• Xurxo Méndez

Goals:

• Make OpenLayers 2.x awesomer.
• Make OpenLayers 3.0 a reality (or closer to it).

52°North WPS

Coordinator:

• Bastian Schäffer

Attending:

• Person 1

Goals:

• Technical disucssions about 52°North WPS

Geomajas Code Sprint

Coordinator:

• Pieter De Graef

Attending:

• Pieter De Graef
• Jan De Moerloose
• Joachim van der Auwera
• Dirk Frigne
• Frank Maes
• Oliver May

Goals:

• Improving getting started documentation
• Create a GeoJson service, so that an OpenLayers client can make use of a Geomajas server.
• Create a Geomajas DataStore for GeoTools.
• Work toward plug-in graduation (documentation + tests)

PostGIS

Attending:

• Paul Ramsey
• Olivier Courtin
• Mark Cave-Ayland
• Pierre Racine
• Vincent Picavet

Goals:

• Synchronize fall development goals
• Discuss ISO type extensions
• Discuss official raster integration issues
• Discuss OGR based SQL loader
• Discuss build simplification

GeoJQuery

Coordinator:

• Volker Mische

Attending:

• Astrid Emde
• Christoph Baudson
• Javi Carrasco
• Arnulf Christl

Goals:

• getting started
• ...

gvSIG

Someone asked at gvSIG mailing lists (1, 2) about a possible gvSIG code sprint at Barcelona FOSS4G.

(Tentative) coordinator:

• Jorge Sanz

Attending:

• Andrés Maneiro
• Nacho Varela
• Jorge Piera

Goals:

• Disscuss about how is possible to migrate NavTable to gvSIG 2.0.
• Talk about usability
  • TOC
  • Labelling and Symbology
  • Project Preferences

LiveDVD

Interested in localization of the LiveDVD as asked on the mailing list? http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/live-demo/2010-August/002518.html

Attending:

• Daniel Kastl
• Astrid Emde

Goals:

• Discuss localization
• getting started
• translate the documentation to german ;) to get the OSGeoLiveDVD ready for Intergeo in october 2010
• ...

MapServer

Attending:

• Daniel Morissette
• Michael Smith
• Steve Lime (via IRC)
• Stephan Meissl
• Jeff McKenna
• Alan Boudreault (via IRC)
• Thomas Bonfort
• ...

Goals:

• Discuss 6.0 release plans (if enough members of the PSC/Devs are present)
• ...

Mapnik

The Mapnik project is planning a code sprint in London in late september.

Therefore, no current plans for sprinting post foss4g (Dane in particular is going to the beach).

But, get in touch with Dane if you are interested in meeting up during foss4g (User:Springmeyer)