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Current Tasks

MoM: 20 Aug, 2010

* Hiring - Punch

• - Check with IRCC about advertisements - Check with Asokan - hiring mail, advertisements

* Textbook Champion - Anoop

• - Work to be delegated to Banukiran - Coordinate with Banukiran - Help him set up things - Chalk out a plan - Decide upon the courses - Figure out honorarium for contributors/students - Create a standard document for the entire process - Try to get interns at their own cost - Honorarium can be paid

* Hiring Banukiran

• - Tansa room is blocked - Tansa room will be available from this Sunday - Banukiran is joining on 1st September

* Test App - Amit

• - Done - Needs to be tested - There should be interface to add, delete and edit questions - Should be testable - If the test is to be manual evaluated, app should give interface to do it - Needs to be up for next workshop - Deadline - 1st of October

* Review app

• - Deadline - 10th of September - Has to be deployable with Documentation - Make it a release

* Wiki - Punch

• - Update schedules - ACL for FOSSEE group for these schedules - PR should create a login

* Spoken tutorials - Nishanth

• - Get the first version ready by getting it reviewed from PR - Deadline - 27th August

* Sage server

• - Get a machine - Run the Sage server on it

MoM: 17 Aug, 2010

* Review app - Amit

* Test app - Amit

* LivePython DVD - Anoop

• - Install Java for running 3D plots in Sage

* Textbook - Anoop

• - Bunch of text books to be converted in the campus

  • > 2 day crunched up workshop for IIT-B students > Contact instructors of courses > Get students to convert the text books > Get the work reviewed by the instructor > Organize sprints once in a fortnight > Pay the students

  - Contact Banukiran

* SEES - Madhu

• - Plan the course of action for SEES - Target for Winter vacation - Talk to students - Sprints with Sage
  • - Should involve using hg as exercise - Chose a bug and fix it or solve a text book problem - Use hg to create the patch - Upload to trac too

* Sage workshop - Madhu with PA

• - Restructure entire workshop to use Sage notebook than IPython - Discuss with Asokan sir about it and make a plan

* Blog post about "Why it is cool to work at FOSSEE?" - Nishanth

* Spoken Tutorials - Nishanth

• - Plan the course of action - Report the status of workshop spoken tutorials

* Sage Champion - Nishanth

• - Setup a Sage server for IITB - Maintain it - Help others setup server

* PyTasks - Nishanth

• - Ask Ganesh to take one text book and convert it to Sage - Go through this entire process on paper (meaning mails) - Document the process

  - Restructure PyTask to simulate this process

* Hiring - Puneeth

• - Wide circulation of mails

  • > All possible mailing lists > People who have shown interest previously

  - Hiring should be based type of the work

  • > Writers/Editors - preferably people with BA degree > Event Manager > Project Manager > Instructional Designer > Graphic Designer

  - Check with IRCC with Deepak's help as to how we can hire Diploma holder's and people who don't hold a degree - When can we see new faces? - Check with Ganesh as to how he can help

* Quickref - Puneeth

• - For everything covered in the workshop

  - Must be package based - Matplotlib, NumPy, SciPy

* Organizing and managing workshops - Puneeth

• - Re-initiate all the requests

* Miscellaneous

• - Honorarium to be paid to Kamal for Logo design - PR and Madhu - Kamal can't be hired since he doesn't hold a degree - Review hiring write-up - PR and Puneeth