opw

first pull request!

I'm a bit late to posting this, but I recently joined the latest group of OPW interns. I'm excited to be part of the OSS community and am looking forward to do my part to contribute! My OPW project is to work on front-end design and development for Hyperkitty. One of the interesting things about the OPW application process is that you have to make an initial contribution to the project that you want to work on. After chatting with Máirín, I learned that Hyperkitty's front-end is based on Twitter's Bootstrap. We decided…Read more …

starting from a clean slate

I'm getting back into Fedora stuff again (working on front-end dev & design for Hyperkitty). I originally submitted something for consideration back in October, but since it's been awhile, I thought I'd try to see how easy it would be to integrate my submission into the main repo via a pull request. Turns out it wasn't as easy as I had hoped. It was recommended that I do a rebase, but that ended up leading to lots of conflicts. Most likely because there had been other front-end commits before mine, which meant that…Read more …

geoclue2 python example

Next step was to get libchamplain working so that the location data can be shown on a map. That turned out to be pretty easy. I found the easiest way was to do a git clone of their current repository. Doing that also meant that I could look at some of the example code, especially the python bindings they have with that library. git clone git://git.gnome.org/libchamplain ./autogen.sh ./configure make sudo make install I found launcher-gtk.py particularly helpful in understanding how the map drawing works. If you prefer to just install the binaries, then…Read more …

building geocode2 from source

So I've officially given up on figuring out how to get the right libraries installed for GTG so that I can test out its geolocalization features. But, if you've seen my previous posts, you know it's been a painful process since I just can't seem to get the right libraries installed to get things working. But I'm going to go out on a limb and guess that this might not be entirely my fault because, from what I can tell, it seems like this particular feature is a rather old project? So maybe…Read more …

geolocalization & gtg, take 2

OK, I'm trying to install GTG again. This time, I'm using Ubuntu 13.10 Desktop (64-bit). To get things started, I ran the same pre-steps as before: added myself to the sudo list, installed some basic tools, and set up bzr, and grabbed the code from launchpad. I tried running: sudo apt-get install python-liblarch python-liblarch-gtk But it turns out that this installs v1.0 and GTG is expecting v2.1. No worries. Just follow the instructions to do a git clone. The trick after that is to run ./gtg -l (instead of just ./gtg). To eliminate…Read more …
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