Training session: How to admin and code in Tiki

When

2013-07-14 Sunday

10-12h Admin in Tiki (Marc)

• Intro
• Quick history of project
• Demo of CartoGraf, which is an example of using Tiki as a framework, using trackers, profiles and advanced wiki syntax
• Overview of components like Zend Framework, Smarty, jQuery, etc.
• Code in trunk, and make it optional -> 3 Rules
• Version lifecycle (6-month release cycle, LTS versions, branch merging, Security Team, etc.)

12-13h Lunch: general discussion

• We'll order some pizza (or similar)

13-14h How to code in Tiki (Louis-Philippe)

• Composer
• DB schema updates
• Extension points (modules, plugins, etc.)
• Search index, PluginList, Plugin Custom Search

14-17h Code

• fixing bugs and adding small features is a great way to learn!

17-19h Beers

Where

• Near Mont-Royal métro station, in Montréal (ask Marc for address)

Who

This is aimed at people who want to be power-admins or developers in Tiki.

If you have coding experience, you'll learn where things are in Tiki and how to contribute.

If you don't have coding experience, we'll still teach you to commit code, but we'll focus on simpler things like translations.

Pre-requisite: You need an account on https://sourceforge.net/ because that is where we have our all our accounts

Confirmed

• Thierry G.
• Éric B.
• Louis-Philippe H.
• Marc L.
• Immanuel Giulea
• Matthieu H.
• Alexandre Q.

Invited

• Pablo D. (in Europe, can't make it)
• Bahar S.
• anyone