In case you haven’t heard, the Google Summer of Code has started, and my project idea, the “Fedora Events System” was chosen as one of the projects that Google will sponsor.
Hiemanshu Sharma, who has previously worked with Fedora’s Websites as well as other Fedora infrastructure will be the student working on this project.
In a nutshell, the Fedora Events System will be a webapp designed to move away from Wiki-Event-Pages and onto a solid Web App designed to handle events and people. The goal here is to make event organization less stressful, and handle some types of events, like Barcamps, in a much more friendlier way.
Hiemanshu and I will be blogging along the days to come with progress and updates on the project. If all goes well, we should have everything up and running before Summer’s end.
I wish you good luck =D
Have you guys talked with the Insight team about ideas for an Events system? We are contemplating how to do this in Drupal after a few people reached out to us about it. Since Drupal already has well-supported, mature modules to support a calendar, dates, etc. it might make sense to join forces on this. Check out our [[Insight]] page on the wiki for more info — we have a meeting tomorrow (Monday) at 1900 UTC (3pm US Eastern), but are meeting on Tuesdays starting the following week.
Paul, I’ll go to the meeting, but my scope of work goes beyond just a normal calendar, so I still think a separate webapp would be best for this.
I think we want something more than a calendar as well. What I think we should consider is that development on Drupal could be leveraged for many open source communities beyond Fedora or even Linux, which would be a huge win. It bears looking at before writing a whole new web app from scratch.
We’ll consider it, but I already had plans of using this beyond ‘just Fedora’, in particular, to help Tatica organize her 30-something FLISOL events in Venezuela, which aren’t necessarily Fedora-focused.
I think that’s precisely what I’m saying, Nushio — leveraging a known platform like Drupal that can be used for *any* community, not just Fedora, makes a lot more sense to me than writing a brand new app from the ground up. Hopefully you can come by our meeting (happening right now) and discuss? Thanks for giving us the chance to talk to you about it!