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http://www.AboutUs.org/New_Developer_Orientation

AboutUs Overview : 30 mins

Introductions

• Introduction to existing staff
• Introduce yourself

Who we are

• The Wiki Way
  • ItsAboutUs...NotAboutMe
  • Transparency
  • Assume Good Faith
  • Be a builder
  • The Common Good
  • Communication
  • Collaboration

How we work

• Distributed Planning Game
  • Do-ocracy, Down and out in the magic kingdom
• Consensus Polling

MediaWiki|Compost : 20mins : Brandon

Our current application is a hybrid combination of MediaWiki written in PHP and Compost written in Ruby.

• Linux
• Apache
• MySQL
• PHP/eAccelerator/MediaWiki 1.10/AboutUs MediaWiki Extensions
• Ruby/Rails/Compost
• Memcached

Hardware Configuration

• Load Balancer
• Application Servers
• Image Server
• Database Slaves
• Database Master

Topsoil : 10mins : Brandon

Topsoil, our next generation collaboration platform, is our future. Topsoil is a distributed application that runs on top of the Bedrock Network of servers and web clients.

• User interacts with standard web client that may or may not have the GreenThumb(browser plugin) installed.
• Web client interacts with a Bedrock server that may be hosted by us or running on their local machine as a proxy daemon.
• Bedrock servers use the Seismic protocol to communicate user actions between Bedrock servers.

Philosophy (ExtremeProgramming) : 10mins : Arif

1. TestDrivenDevelopment
2. PairProgramming
3. DistributedPlanningGame
4. MorningStandUpMeeting

Programming : 5mins : Athar

1. Ruby
2. Unit Testing in Ruby
3. Regular Expressions
4. PHP
5. MediaWiki

Environment : 5mins : Athar

• Linux
  • BasicLinuxCommands
  • HowToUseBash
  • HowToUseVim
  • HowToUseScreen
  • BasicUnixUtilities
  • HowToUseGit
  • HowToUseSSHKeys
• ProgrammersTextEditor
  • HowToUseVim
  • VIM