Project name

New Indico module for Paper Review and Edit documentation and promotion

Project description

The group Collaboration, Devices and Applications (CDA) in CERN IT Department provides a big number of services which are very visible to the end-user, under-going continuous development,while ensuring top quality availability and support.

New Indico Paper Review & Edit module

The Indico module on Conference Paper Review & Edit is undergoing a major re-design. The code is expected to be mature early July. This student will:

1. update the relevant documentation section,
2. make an online tutorial (screen capture with voice over) and
3. design training exercises for new users (conference organisers and paper reviewers).

Process

More useful links than the ones below are in the "References" section of this page.

• Make a fork of the documentation in github and write the Conference Paper Review & Edit documentation in Markdown directly there - Github location here. Include screenshots and the videos (when done) as per the other documentation sections - Published doc location here.
• Set-up a login "tunnel to CERN" to access internal resources. Instructions here.
  • A more sophisticated description of how to tunnel through lxplus.cern.ch here (you need your CERN login to read these instructions and you need to replace aiadm by lxplus.
• Use the Indico testbed  to create dummy conferences (Maria will kick-start this). You need to login to indico.cern.ch once, before the Indico manager authorises you to access the testbed.
• Use  mattermost with your CERN login for internal communication with the team.

Outcome

Luca Ciabini completed an excellent work as a volunteer student. Document with links to results here.

• Documentation chapters
• Videos
• Report in CDS

Required skills

Programming (scripting, JavaScript, JSON, html, MkDocs).
Video editing, filming, specifically via screen capture tools.
Web design
Mockup drawing
Good communication skills with developers and service managers.

Learning experience

Work with expert developers, knowledge acquisition of Open Source tools for widely-used applications, good communication skills to get the message across in less thank 5' minutes, while staying pleasant and technical, interesting and accurate.

Project duration

1 month

Project area

Learning

Contact for further details

Maria Dimou

References

Indico-related

1. Contacts:
   1. Maria Dimou <maria.dimou@cern.ch> for project planning, testing and daily "scrums".
   2. Pedro Ferreira <pedro.ferreira@cern.ch> for Indico internals.
   3. Adrian Moennich <adrian.moennich@cern.ch> for Indico internals.
2. Indico website
3. Indico instance @ CERN
4. Indico testbed
5. Indico documentation
6. Indico functions described in short videos
7. Documentation on tools to film and add subtitles https://it-e-learning.docs.cern.ch/video/faq/
8. Indico code

• old paper reviewing (we renamed it to "peer reviewing") is https://github.com/indico/indico/tree/master/indico/modules/events/papers
• paper editing is https://github.com/indico/indico/tree/master/indico/modules/events/editing

 

CERN group

IT-CDA

Status

Accomplished Submitted by Maria Dimou on Tuesday, January 14, 2020 - 17:22.