Perth Hackfest October 2012

Developer meetings > Perth Hackfest October 2012

When	Mon Oct 22 to Fri Oct 26
Where	Quay West Resort, Bunker Bay near Margaret River
Alternate name	Hacktoberfest
Hashtag	#moodledev12

What happened?

A Hackfest brings together key Moodle developers to brainstorm future Moodle developments.

This hackfest had 38 people (mostly core developers) from all over the world, and we worked on:

• Ideas for solutions to existing problems
• Specifications for architecture changes in future versions
• Actual bug fixing and improvements.

We also had scheduling sessions, group sessions, reporting sessions, and plenty of opportunities to socialise, have fun and most importantly, get to know each other better.

Session notes

• Technical Debt and Processes
• Responsive design and Theming
• Navigation / UI
• Forms API
• Logging User activity / Reporting / Analytics
• Outcomes / Badges / Alternate models
• Backup
• AJAX
• Custom fields / Metadata
• Plugin framework
• Testing
• File storage / Cloud
• Performance
• Shoot (understand, help and love) the integrators
• Blue Sky System

Specifications

• File Storage Plugintype spec
• Logging spec
• Reporting spec
• Asynchronous Backup System spec
• Simplified Backup UI spec