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h1. Presentation I'm trying to get a presentation together for the FrOSCon:"http://www.froscon.de/" and would like to gather topic ideas and maybe even work out the outline here with other redminers. The presentation time being 1 hour of which 15 minutes should be allocated to questions, I only have 45 minutes to present redmine, which I would consider a rather short timespan. Keeping that in mind, I won't be able to present every feature of redmine in detail and will try to highlight the areas in which redmine really shines. I had some email contact with the FrOSCon people, and they pointed to "khmarbaise's talk":http://programm.froscon.org/2009/events/360.en.html last year and asked if I could either shift the focus a little bit or go a little more in-depth. Considering we use redmine more for group management than project management, I'll focus more on that aspect. h2. Resources * The [[Features|redmine features]] page, obviously, * Other already existing presentations: ** http://www.soebes.de/files/RedmineCLT2009.pdf ** http://www.slideshare.net/elefevre/cours-du-soir-redmine-valtech (french) ** http://www.slideshare.net/ritesh.tamrakar/software-project-management-using-redmine ** http://www.slideshare.net/ciaranj/hassle-free-issue-tracking-with-readmin ** http://www.slideshare.net/Anubavam/project-managementtoolsonrubyonrails * I'll try to bring in my own experience, though I fear it is not that much a typical redmine usage. h2. Outline h3. What is Redmine? / What can it be used for? (5 minutes) * Redmine ** Web software ** Ruby on Rails ** GPLv2 * Usage ** Software project, obviously ** Group management, focus of the usage examples h3. Important features (15- minutes) * Issue management ** Highly customizable (Statuses, tracker/workflow) ** Categories ** Versions ** Issue relations * SCM integration ** Repo browser/diff viewer/syntax highlighting/annotate ** Automatic revision to issue linking * "Community" features ** Wiki ** Forums ** News/Blog * "Software Management" Features ** Time tracking ** Files ** Documents * Administration ** RBAC ** User management/LDAP ** Per-project settings ** Custom fields * OSS ** Highly extensible (Plugins! show 2 examples, a simple one, a kick-ass one (looking at you Eric ;-) )) h3. Few usage examples (15+ minutes) * (Fachschaftsarbeit) Student union coordination ** Planning and preliminary discussion of weekly meetings ** Minutes ** Other task tracking * ("KIF (Konferenz der Informatikfachschaften)":http://kif.fsinf.de/wiki/Hauptseite) German-speaking sutdent unions conference ** Same thing, bigger scope, heavier "community" usage ** Subprojects (inheritance, issue list containing child projects, …) ** KIF publication (next example) * Publication ** Custom tracker + Workflow ** SCM not limited to software h3. How do I get it? / What do I need for it? (5 minutes) * Get it ** Download a packaged release ** Download from git/svn ** Download an stack installer ** Download a virtual machine ** Get a hosted offering * Needs (for ground-up installation) ** Halfway recent ruby/rails stack (so not debian <notextile>*coughs*</notextile>) ** Database (whatever floats your boat and works with rails, only mysql/pgsql/sqlite tested though) ** Some frontend webserver is better (either reverse proxy, cgi or mod_passenger) ** Some SCM software for SCM integration h3. Who am I? / Additional resources (5 minutes) * http://redmine.org ** Guides ** Forums ** IRC * (Nearly) shameless plug at our "redmine installation geared towards german higher education":http://orga.fachschaften.org/ h3. Q&A (15 minutes)