Diff for "MeetingAgenda"

Current Tasks

Puneeth

• Task	Status	Due
  LaTeX handout	Done	Aug 30
  LaTeX workbook	in-progress	Aug 30
  LaTeX slides	in-progress	Aug 30
  Send mail for hiring	pending review	Aug 28

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