Django

So over the weekend and today I've familiarized myself with Django, the web framework Ductus is built on. It seems fairly intuitive so far. I've also been debating this ticket. My quick fix for the ticket was a little too general. Ductus currently uses the first line of Creole code for a wiki page as it's title. This becomes a problem when Creole syntax characters are in the line ('=, *, [['). I've been thinking about the best way to handle this problem. If there are images or external URL's in the first line this is even worse. You can't just strip off some Creole characters and put a URL in the title of a page. I think I'm going to look at posting the page's URL in the title. It doesn't make sense to pull information from the page unless we mandate a page title at the beginning of every page. ie "= English Lessons =". Otherwise we could pull the first line which is a link to something else. An example would be having a page listing spanish lessons with the first link being "spanish introduction". The current code would pull "spanish introduction" when it really should be something like "All Spanish Lessons".

TransBot

So looks like I'm picking up Transbot for the HFOSS class I'm taking. I've started looking at the code and it looks like we can really take this somewhere. My partner, Mark, and I are going to improve the existing code and port it to a Sugar activity. Can't wait to start!

Wikiotics "Day 1"

So It's Day 1 of my Wikiotics job. Today I'm trying to see about translating their intro lesson to ASL. Hopefully I can find some videos on youtube and embed them in the Ductus wiki. If I figure this out fast I'm going to look at finding a ticket I can close.

Hello Ductus

I just started my first "unofficial" day working on Wikiotics, a free open source language learning tool similar to Rosetta Stone. I just spent a couple hours today sifting through the code. I'm pumped to start in next week!

Boston Wrap-up

Boston was a great time! We were joined by the Fortune Hunter and Civx teams as well as some upstream developers. These developers included Adam Holt of OLPC, Luke Macken of RedHat, and Daf of Collabora. Daf really helped Fran and I to understand how to connect Farsight to the Sugar Presence service. That should help with development. The trip itself was a ton of fun. The new hostel had 100% less drug addicts but was a little hot. We got to sample some great Boston food and went to a Drum and Bass show after the hackfest and got our dance on. Good Times.

Boston HackFest This Week!!!

We're leaving for Boston tomorrow! If you'd like to participate in the event please sent a message to us through our mailing list ovc@lists.fedorahosted.org

What

Open Video Chat will be returning to Boston July 8th for a hack fest at OLPC headquarters. If you'd like to come, contact us on the Open Video Chat mailing list (ovc@lists.fedorahosted.org). We will be tackling farsight and telepathy-farsight to pave the way for cross platform communication.
When
July 8th @ 10am

Where
OLPC Headquarters
1 Cambridge Center
Cambridge, Massachusetts

How
Come hack with us or participate remotely through our IRC channel (#rit-innovation on freenode.net ). Please send us an email to our mailing list with your full name by Wednesday July 7th at midnight so we can compile a guest list for the security desk Thursday morning.


Facebook Event: http://www.facebook.com/?ref=logo#!/event.php?eid=139205299429364&ref=ts


Official Event Page: http://foss.rit.edu/events/ovchackfest

-Taylor Rose
OVC Devel Team

OLPC/Open Video Chat Boston HackFest

What

Open Video Chat will be returning to Boston July 8th for a hack fest at OLPC headquarters. If you'd like to come, contact us on the Open Video Chat mailing list (ovc@lists.fedorahosted.org). We will be tackling farsight and telepathy-farsight to pave the way for cross platform communication.
When
July 8th @ 10am

Where
OLPC Headquarters
1 Cambridge Center
Cambridge, Massachusetts

How
Come hack with us or participate remotely through our IRC channel (#rit-innovation on freenode.net ). Please send us an email to our mailing list with your full name by Wednesday July 7th at midnight so we can compile a guest list for the security desk Thursday morning.


Facebook Event: http://www.facebook.com/?ref=logo#!/event.php?eid=139205299429364&ref=ts


Official Event Page: http://foss.rit.edu/events/ovchackfest

-Taylor Rose
OVC Devel Team