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= Hackfest =

The 2nd day of the BOINC workshop will be a "hackfest",
in which we divide into groups and get something useful done.
Possible activities include:

 * design something
 * write code
 * get existing software to work
 * write or improve documentation.

Each group will have a coordinator,
who will define the goals and prepare resources.

'''Workshop attendees: please register for one or more hackfest groups by editing this page.
If you don't see a group that interests you, create one.

If you don't participate in a group, you'll have nothing to do on the 2nd day of the workshop.'''

== Possible Hackfest groups ==

Here are some possible groups.
I have filled in names of possible coordinators;
this is completely flexible.

=== Multi-user projects: Interface ===

Goals: 
 * Use BOINC's new features for remote job submission and multi-user projects.
 * Discuss the design of these features; compare with analogous system,
   both BOINC- and Grid-based.
   Improve and extend the design.
 * Implement and document some of the improved design.

Coordinator: David Anderson

Participants:
 * David Coss
 * Evgeny Ivashko
 * Natalia Nikitina
 * Alejandro Rivero
 * Francisco Sanz
 * Dario Ferrer
 * Fubica
 * Oscar Díaz
 * Pablo Fonseca

Advance preparation:
 * Research analogous existing systems
 * Test-drive BOINX's remote job submission system:
   http://isaac.ssl.berkeley.edu/test/submit_example.php
   (log in as guest@nowhere.com, password "guest").
 * Read the documentation: RemoteJobs and PortalFeatures
 * Review the source code:
  * http://boinc.berkeley.edu/trac/browser/trunk/boinc/html/inc/submit.inc
  * http://boinc.berkeley.edu/trac/browser/trunk/boinc/html/user/submit.php
  * http://boinc.berkeley.edu/trac/browser/trunk/boinc/html/user/submit_example.php

=== Multi-user projects: Scheduling ===

Goals:
 * Review and discuss BOINC's new proposed features for user quotas and batch scheduling
 * Compare these features with those of analogous Grid-based systems
 * Design an implementation of these features
 * Implement some part of this

Advance preparation:
 * Read the design doc: http://boinc.berkeley.edu/trac/wiki/PortalFeatures

Coordinator: David Anderson?  Kevin Reed?

Participants:
 * Arnaud Legrand
 * Derrick Kondo

=== BOINC on Ubuntu ===

Goal: bring the BOINC client for Ubuntu up to the same standard as
the Windows and Mac versions.
In particular:

  * One-click installation
  * Client start at boot time
  * Screensaver
  * User activity detection

Coordinator: Steffen Moeller?

Participants:

=== VM apps ===

Goal: Create a "cookbook" for deploying virtual machine apps.

Coordinator: Rom Walton?

Participants:

=== OpenCL apps ===

Goal: Create a "cookbook" for deploying OpenCL apps.

Coordinator: Oliver Bock

Participants:
 * David Coss

=== BOINC on Android ===

Goals:

 * Learn how to set up a development environment for Android
 * Complete the design of the BOINC client for Android; implement some part of it
 * Create a cookbook for developing an app version for ARM/Android.

Coordinator: ?

Participants:

 * Peter Hanappe
 * Michael Tarantino

=== Attic ===

(Attic is a peer-to-peer file distribution system
designed for volunteer computing systems).

Goals:

 * Complete the design of BOINC support for Attic.
 * Creating a working demo of a project that uses Attic
 * Document this in cookbook form

Coordinator: Ian Kelley?

Participants:

=== PHP hack session / website improvement ===

Goals:

 * Find a new design/usage concept for the general webpages
 * develop 1 or 2 alternative web site "themes" using CSS stylesheets and header/footer functions
 * Discuss tools to document/visualize php source code (present/discuss/find tools everyone can use)
 * Collect ideas to design an API to plug other websites into the BOINC framework (or vice versa)
 * general bug hunting and code hardening

Coordinator: Christian Beer

Participants:

=== Volunteer storage ===

Goals:
 * Review and discuss [VolunteerStorage BOINC's new distributed storage architecture]
 * develop a simple storage application

Coordinator: David Anderson