Weekly GSoC Survey Tool meeting summary

The weekly meeting was held in the #sahana-eden IRC channel on irc.freenode.org. Present were: Mark, Gavin, Michael, and of course whatever spectators:

What was discussed:

• We removed some of the question types from the functional specification to simplify things
• Discussed how michael did the ADPC _next stuff and how it can be applied to this project
• Gavin suggested localization -- a suggested implementation is specified -- this is a "Nice to Have" as it's outside the scope of this project for GSOC.
• Will discuss on the mailing list how best to generically support "wizard" like uis within S3 elegantly.

What's on the agenda for the next couple weeks (this week will be scarce):

• Noodle over ways to generically support "wizards" in S3 elegantly
• Implement the "Template" stage (page 1 of the wizard) [first milestone as per my project plan timeline]

Resources relevant to this meeting for the purpose of this summary:

1. The functional spec
   
2. The project plan timeline
   
3. Meeting log [meeting ends at 0109 as per the timestamp in the logs]

Cheers!

Accepted to Google Summer of Code 2010: HAT TRICK!!

I have been accepted to Google Summer of Code 2010 for the third year running! This summer I will be working with Sahana Eden.

The Sahana Free and Open Source Disaster Management System was conceived during the 2004 Sri Lanka tsunami. The system was developed to help manage the disaster and was deployed by the Sri Lankan government's Center of National Operations (CNO), which included the Center of Humanitarian Agencies (CHA). A second round of funding was provided by the Swedish International Development Agency (SIDA). The project has now grown to become globally recognized, with deployments in many other disasters such as the Asian Quake in Pakistan (2005), Southern Leyte Mudslide Disaster in Philippines (2006) and the Jogjarkata Earthquake in Indonesia (2006).

The project is now being ported to Python as an experimental fork a replacement for Sahana Agasti so that the software can be extended. Sahana Agasti is written in PHP.

I will be working with Sahana Eden to create a tool to create, enter, and manage surveys. This should be a lot of fun!