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Revision 7 (Felix Schäfer, 2010-06-14 21:01) → Revision 8/9 (Felix Schäfer, 2010-06-16 00:34)

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 
 ** http://vimeo.com/groups/13013/videos/6601634 
 ** http://redmine-jumpbox-presentation.heroku.com/ 
 * 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)