More information about the upcoming Connexions sprint

We can’t wait to see you Thursday, February 10th at the Connexions/Rhaptos sprint, following the 3rd annual Connexions conference. We will have work for Connexions enthusiasts whether you are a brand new developer, an experienced Connexions developer, a user experience expert, a content project manager, or an author aspiring to improve the Connexions workflow and documentation.

Location and time: The Sprint will begin at 9am on Thursday, February 10th and meet at Rice University in Duncan Hall in room 3076. The room is on the third floor in the same area as the conference. See the following for a campus map, http://conference.cnx.org/travel.shtml) Come by between 8:30 and 9 for some bagels and coffee.

Sprint Topics: We will be sprinting on at least the following topics and we will have a time at the beginning for others to advertise additional topics.

• Bugs (code): For developers new to Connexions and Rhaptos, we will have a set of bugs to work on and we will have experienced developers to help. Ed Woodward, Connexions Development Manager will coordinate the Code Bugs sprint.
• Bugs (usability and documentation): For user experience designers, students, and non-developers, we have a set of bugs that present usability design challenges and documentation tasks.
• Authoring editors (code and usability): There are two editor prototypes, a specification for creating an offline HTML->CNXML editor, and a design to add an image and media uploader to the current web editor. Developers, user experience professionals and students, and authors will all be useful in this sprint.
• Plone 4 Migration: (code) At the Plone conference in Bristol last year, consortium member, Roché Compaan, led a sprint to upgrade the Connexions plone infrastructure to Plone 4. We will continue the work from that sprint.
• Topics you bring: Moodle integration, perhaps? Others?
  

For developers: We will be using VirtualBox to install Connexions/Rhaptos images for development. Connexions and Rhaptos code base currently use a Debian Linux and some of the tools use system level libraries. The easiest way for new developers to get involved is to install the software on a virtual machine. We recommend that all developers install VirtualBox and for the sprint we will be providing machine with all of the system dependencies and with the Rhaptos code.

Instructions for installing VirtualBox and downloading the Rhatpos images can be found here: https://trac.rhaptos.org/trac/rhaptos/wiki/HoustonSprintDocumentation. We recommend that you install VirtualBox before arriving at the Sprint if you have time to do so. The Connexions images are made to go version 4 or higher. Details about installing VirtualBox are given in the documentation link above.

Online and remote participation: We will use the twitter hash tag, #cnxsprint to match the conference twitter hash, #cnxconf. We will also have a developer chat room open. To connect to our chat room during the conference

1. Have an existing jabber id (a gmail address works too)
2. Using a standalone jabber app (ie Pidgin, Adium) "Join an existing group chat"
3. Enter "sprint" for the name and "chat.cnx.org" for the server and join