Drupal 7 Patch and Development Sprint at IIT Kanpur, India

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From 12th to 15th February, IIT Kanpur will hold FOSSkriti (essentially an open-source-oriented conference with sprints and workshops). I have put in a proposal to hold a "Drupal Patch and Development Sprint". Below is the proposal mail that I sent...
website - http://techkriti.org/#/fosskriti

Our primary aim at the hackathon will be to try and tackle some of the
impending Drupal 7 patches in the pipeline. Drupal 7 is poised to be
the best Drupal release ever (with stuff like a completely re-written
DB layer, a unit-testing framework, improved usability, better file
handling, RDF support etc.)

We will primarily tackle some of the usability patches at our sprint.
These patches are concerned with UI issues, some of which are quite
needed to be fixed for D7. We still have around 10 days time (after
15th Feb) when a formal Drupal 7 usability testing will happen at
University of Baltimore. Hopefully, we can easily contribute to some
part of the Usability efforts. If time permits, we will also work on
non-usability issues.

The other goal will be to help newcomers understand how Drupal
development happens. They will be taken through the process of
installing and up-keeping the bleeding edge Drupal 7 install. Drupal
internals will be discussed and we'll see how such an amazing
framework also needs thousands of man-hours of testing and fixing.
People who will be participating should have knowledge of PHP and
MySQL (even basic knowledge will do). On the other hand, those with
Drupal know-how but haven't yet contributed to the project till date,
will also benefit.

Since we will be tackling mainly Usability issues, I thought I'd post this here to gain some more ideas/help as to what other stuff we could do at the hackathon. Ideas welcome!

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Confirmed!

lut4rp's picture

Thanks to the IIT team, we just got the confirmation for the event! The sprint starts on 13th February, 10 PM IST (+5.5 UTC)
See http://techkriti.org/#/fosskriti-events/ for the official notice.

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