A nice report on this successful event: http://blog.lphuberdeau.com/wordpress/2007/09/10/codefest-2007-and-opensource-collaboration/

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What: 2-day coding sprint

Where: École de technologie supérieure http://www.etsmtl.ca/

When:

• September 8-9, 2007

Who: 10-25 people like:

• Louis-Philippe Huberdeau

• Yann Larrivée

• Evan Prodromou

• Benoit Gregoire

• Morgan Tocker

• David Avenante

• Omar Bickell

• Antoine Beaupré

• Nelson Ko

• Alain Desilets

• Marc Laporte

• Nicolas Marchildon

• Marc-André Lanciault

• RobinMillette (possiblement)

• Jonathan Daugherty

• etc

Projects:

• Add OpenID to Wifidog

• Add OpenID to TikiWiki

• Add OpenID to Xoops

• Improve OpenID support for Drupal and/or another Drupal project.

• Improve OpenID in MediaWiki

• Add OpenID to BeWelcome

• Any other idea for which we'll have devs

Since IleSansFil.org uses both Wifidog and Tiki, it would be a great project so ISF users can use their ISF/Wifidog login to access TikiWiki. (Now, we sadly have a distinct userbase). Please see: http://dev.wifidog.org/wiki/doc/developer/OpenID

Maybe we can make it a MashPit: http://mashpit.pbwiki.com/MashPitOpenid

I love this idea and really want to be involved. I've implemented OpenID for MediaWiki -- the extension is used on Wikitravel, wikiHow, Wikevent, AboutUs.org, and will eventually be used on Wikipedia. However, I'm going to be on the West Coast for most of August -- from Wikimania at the beginning, through a family wedding, until Burning Man at the end. Is there any openness to shifting the dates to the next weekend in September -- the 8th and 9th? --EvanProdromou

ML: ok for me. And I am interested in Burning Man.

Sounds like we have consensus on this, so I've changed the dates on the page. --EvanProdromou

I've set up the following servers for the codefest, one for each project listed above:

• http://tikiwiki.codefest2007.net/

• http://xoops.codefest2007.net/

• http://mediawiki.codefest2007.net/

Each server has a LAMP stack on top of Ubuntu Feisty (= pretty up-to-date). I added the PHP extensions needed for OpenID, and the OpenID PHP libraries. That should get people most of the way there for starting their coding.

These servers are on Amazon EC2, so I'm paying a nominal fee per hour. However, if there's a project that's definitely not going to use one of these servers, let me know and I'll shut it down. Hey: fifteen cents is fifteen cents.

I can give out root passwords as needed tomorrow. --EvanProdromou