Introduction

[ssd]

Hello,
My name is Sonal Dekhane and I am a professor at Georgia Gwinnett College. I recently attended an interesting workshop on open source and am familiarizing myself with FOSS development. I hope to involve my students in the Fall semester in the Sahana-Eden project. As of now I am trying to install the environment and try out some tasks myself. I hope my students and I will have the opportunity to make useful contributions to this project.

Regards,
Sonal Dekhane.

[Fran Boon]

Hullo welcome :)

Look forward to your contributions - please don't hesitate to ask if
you get stuck.

http://eden.sahanafoundation.org/wiki/Contribute/Code

We try to keep this page updated with ideas for projects but some are
better-developed than others, of course, so if something piques your
interest & you want to know more then we can invest the time at that
point into fleshing it out a little :)
If you have any general areas that interest you then perhaps we can
find something in that area too...

Another rawer source is here:
http://eden.sahanafoundation.org/wiki/BluePrint

Best Wishes,
Fran.

[ssd]

Fran,
Thank you for your response and the links. I was stuck after I installed the application and ran the application for the first time. Initially there were some database errors, but I was able to resolve them with the help of some older posts on the mailing list. I have posted my current errors on the mailing list. Hope to get some assistance.

Thank you.
Sonal.

[Michael Howden]

Hey Sonal,

Welcome to the community! I'm really glad to hear that you're keen to get your students involved. Hopefully your able to get past the errors you're facing. Depending on your setup It might be worth installing the Sahana Eden stack directly and not using the VM (this is what I do). As Fran mentioned, hopefully you can help out by documenting any extra installation steps needed - or if you're going to use the VM - perhaps even looking to update it!

Cheers

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[Pat Tressel]

Hi, Sonal!

My name is Sonal Dekhane and I am a professor at Georgia Gwinnett College. I recently attended an interesting workshop on open source and am familiarizing myself with FOSS development. I hope to involve my students in the Fall semester in the Sahana-Eden project. As of now I am trying to install the environment and try out some tasks myself. I hope my students and I will have the opportunity to make useful contributions to this project.

Fran sent a link to our wiki page on coding for Eden, which points to some suggested projects.  Another option would be for students to identify some (real) local use for the software, perhaps relating to disaster preparedness or recovery, and see what enhancements are needed to support that use.  That could permit engaging potential users, doing requirements gathering, trying out agile development with user participation, testing, doing support,...

Besides email, you can find us on IRC at freenode.net channel #sahana-eden.  Since people are in various timezones, and some just leave their IRC clients connected while they're not really online, just post a question and then let it sit for a while to see if there's a response.  You can "poke" people by including their IRC nickname in the post.  The channel is logged, so if someone posts an answer after you're offline, you can check the log.  If you don't have an IRC client, there's webchat.freenode.net.  I use Chatzilla for Firefox.

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