On Fri, 2007-05-25 at 08:28 +0530, jose manimala wrote:

Thanks, I would love to be there, bu the time translates to 1:30am at night. i dont have net access that late. I work from my colleg. I'll read up on the minutes, just let me know what i must do!!

Jose

On 5/24/07, Mike McGrath mmcgrath@redhat.com wrote:

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jose manimala wrote:

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Hey, my name is jose m manimala. I am a server administrator and a web programmar and have good knowledge of web technologies(jsp,php,asp,soap,ajax). Hoping i could be of help with web server administartion and web technologies. I run a fedora core 6 machine with tomcat and apache running on it. Have also experience with linux kernel compiling and shell scripts.... Hope i can be of help. i am doing my graduate studies in cochin, India.

Welcome Jose, will you be able to attend our weekly meeting today?

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/Meetings

Would you be interested in learning python? We're doing a bunch of apps using python and the python web framework TurboGears.

-Toshio

Hey Jose,

Since you have prior programming experience I suggest looking at this website:

http://www.diveintopython.org/

It skips all the beginner sections and tossing you right into python. It is a very good resource. I am familiar with python and can give you a helping hand if you want it. Good luck Jose and welcome to the list!

On 5/24/07, jose manimala josemanimala@gmail.com wrote:

sure i dont mind learning python. just tell me what to do and where to start.

regards

jose m manimala

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On Sat, 2007-05-26 at 11:12 +0530, jose manimala wrote:

thanks that will help. so what should i do first. go through some design documents will help me get the structure of new applications and maybe you can point me to a project plan or something. just let me know!! Thanks jose

Cool. Something that would be very useful and a good way to start would be to work on a new voting/polling application. We have something that is adequate enough that we haven't allocated time to replace it but has some definite failings.

The current code is here:: http://cvs.fedora.redhat.com/viewcvs/fedora-vote/?root=fedora

You'll probably be most interested in the votingdb.sql file as the plan is to discard the rest of the code and recreate it as a TurboGears application. I can write a bit more on Monday about what the vision is for the new application but one thing you can get started on right away is enhancing/rewriting the DB tables to meet some of our new goals::

1) multi-issue ballots. We want to be able to say there will be an election right after Fedora 7. FESCo, The Board, and the following referendum will be on the ballot. - Note that different groups can vote on different topics. So someone in cvsextras and cvsdocs might vote for different issues than someone in cvsextras and ambassadors.

2) Polls. The current code does not support referendums (like "What should the name of Fedora 7 be?") I hacked up the copy on the server to do that *instead* of voting for candidates for a steering committee but it's not the way to go for the future. We need to provide real support for polls and referendum. (I can provide you with the schema for the additional tables I created on Monday.)

3) Other ideas you think would be good for a voting application. I'll also search my notes to see if I can find anything else that would impinge on the DB while I'm organizing them.

Since the plan is for this to be a TurboGears app, you can also just start learning TurboGears and I'll provide more help with the specifics of the voting app next week.

Thanks! -Toshio

i have been going through the code. Turbo gear seems to be a fast paced and much more optimized system to develop the application in. i am trying to install turbo gear. the basics of python i have gone through. So let me know if there is any updates.

Jose M Manimala