Hackfest/Terni2015



In connection with the second LibreItalia Conference in Terni, we're organizing the first ever LibreOffice hackfest in Italy on Saturday, November 28th from 14.00 to 17.00.

Venue
The venue for the event is:

Palazzo Gazzoli

The address is:

Via Teatro Romano, Terni - IT

Focus
This is the first Italian Hackfest so we'd like to focus on "LibreOffice for beginners developers". The plan is to introduce as many people as possible to LibreOffice development. We want to make sure that:
 * attendees' laptops are configured so they are ready to hack when they get home
 * they know the basics of LibreOffice build system
 * they know which tools and processes are used for LibreOffice development
 * they tackle an EasyHack

We'll give examples and hints for Linux machines, if you are on windows / macOS we are sorry but you are on your own.

Don't Forget

 * your laptop with at least 30GB of free disk space
 * a recent checkout of LibreOffice:
 * gerrit account and git integration Development/gerrit/setup
 * your C/C++ skills :)
 * an OpenID account (register to launchpad.net if you are unsure)
 * a https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/ account
 * if you have never built LibreOffice make sure you have proper dependencies:

Debian/Ubuntu: sudo apt-get build-dep libreoffice OpenSUSE 11.4+: sudo zypper si -d libreoffice Fedora 22+: sudo dnf builddep libreoffice Fedora 21+: sudo yum-builddep libreoffice

Participants
Registration: Conference and hackfest registration

Please add yourself to the list as early as possible, so we can plan the event accordingly.

Agenda

 * 1) Riccardo: fixup --without-x breakage by building against properly configured internal cairo

Outcome
Two patches commited from new contributors:


 * 1) https://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=df506d23a96a489934c948d5f87859ab5313e228
 * 2) https://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=e7c78e67292ad93c6a4a0772d8b06a0e6e7d26c8

Hackfest Virtual Machines
We'll use TDF provided VM in order to get Developers up to speed faster. We'll try to get their personal machine setup while they are working on the VM.

See Hackfests/VMs Virtual Machines

We need to give cloph at least a week notice. Default setup for machines are for 7 users, we may ask more disk space to fit more people. We don't have anyone knowledgeable about bibisect but if we need to use bibisect we have to specify that when requesting the VM.

Useful links

 * #libreitalia-dev IRC channel
 * Development/gerrit/SubmitPatch
 * Development/Developers
 * Development/BuildingOnLinux
 * Development/Easy_Hacks
 * code structure
 * libo low level