Cours Peer to peer issue tracking with SD and Prophet + ebook hacking le 12 mars 2010 à 19:30 à Beausobre

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Cours Peer to peer issue tracking with SD and Prophet + ebook hacking
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Intervenant : Jesse Vincent
Le : vendredi 12 mars 2010
Heure : 19:30
Lieu : Beausobre


Deux présentations seront données, en anglais, par Jesse Vincent.

Il est le créateur de Request Tracker (RT), un logiciel libre de gestion de demandes. Il participe également au développement de Perl en occupant le poste de chef de projet ou "Pumpking" de Perl 5. De plus, il est l'instigateur du projet K9-Mail, un client email évolué pour Android.



1st Part: Peer to peer issue tracking with SD and Prophet


SD is a disconnected, replicated peer to peer issue tracking system.
It's designed to sync with the issue tracking tools you already use.
Today, it can sync to RT, Hiveminder, Trac, GitHub, Google Code,
Redmine and Lighthouse.

Additionally, SD supports a native "publish/pull" model that doesn't
need (but can make use of) a centralized server. SD's hackathon mode
can automatically discover other people working on the same project on
the local network and lets you collaborate with them directly.

SD is built on Prophet, a new sort of database designed for serverless
peer-to-peer database applications.  

In this talk, I'll explain what SD is and how you can use it to make your
life and software development workflow a bit easier.

By the end of the talk, you should know everything you need to install
SD, clone a project's issue database and create and share issues.



2nd Part: ebook hacking


A year ago, I got an Amazon Kindle 2 ebook reader.  It quickly became my
favorite way to read books. Unfortunately, it had very limited support
for open ebook formats.  

Building on earlier work for Amazon's original Kindle reader, I figured
out how to build a homebrew software update for the Kindle 2.  I started
by installing an SSH server.  In my quest for a more "open" ebook
experience, I ended up building a complete compiler toolchain, Perl, 
Python and Qt before finally ending up creating an on-device document
conversion service.

Later, I ported X.org to the Kindle and brought up an Ubuntu user
environment.  More recently, I've been exploring Barnes & Noble's
competing "nook" ebook reader.

In this talk, I'll share some of the amazing (and awful) things I've 
learned as I've explored these ebook readers. 



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