[OH-Dev] Reminder (and RSVP request): OpenHatch sprint, San Fran, Sun July 29

[Asheesh Laroia]

WHAT: Get-together of people who want to contribute to the OpenHatch
        website's code, text, and documentation

WHERE: Metreon Food Court, including La Boulange bakery
         101 Fourth Street, near Powell BART
         More info:

http://blogs.sfweekly.com/foodie/2012/02/the_metreons_food_court_re-ope.php

WHEN:  Sunday, July 29, 11 AM to 6:30 PM

RSVP:  Please send an email (on-list is OK) if you'll be coming.
        This is optional, but nice!

WIFI:  Provided for free by venue

POWER: Available at venue. I'll bring power strips for convenience.

FOOD:  Likely sponsored -- awaiting confirmation

I didn't send out a "save the date" earlier, but I do hope that some 
people can make it!

If you are thinking of coming, but not sure if we can make use of your 
skills, I bet we can. Things you could do:

* Continue to improve the oh-bugimporters code

* Learn Scrapy, and "port" oh-bugimporters to that framework

* Read our code and identify portions that need more documentation

* Help write (in plain English text) test plans for what we expect users 
to be able to do

* Read bugs in the bug tracker, and see if they are still true against the 
current website

* Program in Perl on git-remote-mediawiki, or just write plain-english 
documentation on it

* Propose design or interface changes that would simplify the workflow for 
project maintainers who want their project to be OpenHatch-enabled (e.g., 
bitesize bugs being crawled)

* Write a tool to automatically generate WordPress themes given our Django 
templates (I totally believe this is feasible, though I think Karen thinks 
I'm crazy)

* Moving more OpenHatch docs out of the wiki and into restructured text

Personally, in my own sprint work, I'm going to emphasize 
workflow-oriented user interface changes.

Your own ideas are welcome. If you come without an idea, then I will help 
you find something. There will quite likely be food. See you there!

-- Asheesh.