Orientation Schedule
From Humanitarian FOSS Summer Institute 2009
Contents |
Week One Orientation
Monday 5/18 Project Overview
AM: 9 AM - 12 PM Overview of HFOSS and Summer Projects
- Welcome and Introductions
- Summer Projects Overview
- Sahana
- OpenMRS
- Gnome Project
- AppTrac/LVGH
- Posit/Android
- Instedd Machine Learning
- Goals, Expectations, Deliverables
- Account and Lab configuration
Lunch: 12-1:00 PM (Student center?)
PM: 1:00 PM - 5:30 PM Getting set up
- Prasanna Gautam "Working with Eclipse - Tips and Tricks"
- Installing/Using Eclipse
- Using the source code repository
- Exercise: Group programming problem on SVN
- Logistics: Getting ID cards, paperwork
Tuesday 5/19 Scripting Languages
AM: 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM System Code/Design Overviews
- PHP and Python Scripting languages Tutorials
- Sahana PhP/MySQL Overview
- Exercise: Sahana Module
- Overview of Reviews
Wednesday 5/20 Java/ J2EE Languages
AM: 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM Exercise Details and Deliverables
PM: 1:00 - 5:30 PM Group Projects
- Groups work on exercises
Thursday 5/21 Presentation and Documentation
AM: 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM
- How to give Conference Presentations/meetings
- Expectations for Quality of Deliverables
- Documentation (code and log)
PM: 1:00 - 5:30 PM Preparing Group Presentations
- Preparing Group Presentations
- Powerpoint (Problem, Design, Development Process, Demo)
- Code/documentation review
Friday 5/21 Exercise Completion and Reporting
10:30- 12:00 PMO 101 Presentation PM: 1:00 - 4:00PM
- Teams present their Orientation work

