Redmine

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)