Piotr Banaszkiewicz on The Carpentries

AMY release v1.5.1

Sun, 03 Apr 2016 00:00:00 +0000

This post originally appeared on the Software Carpentry website.

We’re very pleased to announce the newest (v1.5.1) release of AMY, our workshop management tool. This release is special because:

it contains more bugfixes than new features
we had a number of submissions from prospective Google Summer of Code 2016 (GSoC) students.

GSoC students that submitted fixes or new features to AMY:

Shubham Singh added “Notes” field to instructor profile update form
Nikhil Verma found and fixed “List duplicates” page error when no duplicates existed
Shubham Singh added new tag “hackaton”
Chris Medrela found and fixed 404 page for revisions that didn’t exist

Additionally Nikhil Verma is working on getting certificates to generate from within AMY, but this will probably land in v1.5.2.

AMY Version 1.3

Tue, 05 Jan 2016 00:00:00 +0000

This post originally appeared on the Software Carpentry website.

In the past month we've seen two releases of AMY: v1.2.1 and v1.3. This blog post (originally published on [my personal blog](http://piotr.banaszkiewicz.org/blog/2016/01/01/amy-release-13/)) contains a joined release notes for both of them.

Bug fixes

wrong URL used in event validation or import/update features is now indicated (and we won’t receive wrong notifications about it)
properly throw 404 on some pages (previously: 500)
spaces are striped from Person and ProfileUpdateRequest fields (names, emails)
disable location inputs on event details page if online country was preselected

New features

use custom-built jQuery-UI (so that we no longer have conflicts with Bootstrap’s tooltip module)
Greg updated the script used to send instructors “Hey, update your info” mails (it’s getting removed later on)
it’s possible to add memberships per host
new badge: DC instructor
new logic for dealing with two instructor badges
timeline of TO-DO items
basic models (e.g. lessons, tags, academic levels, etc.) are now manageable from Django’s admin interface
all persons view: add filtering by workshop type person taught at
remove blurred production database in favor of generated fake database
mailing script turned into better Django management command
bulk upload now shows generated username and suggested people with matching names
show preview of event on SWC website
API: filter events by tags

No longer with us

Greg removed some unused scripts (test-command-line-upload.sh) and commands (parse-instructor-info.py)
notifications about invalid HTTP header Host
other removed scripts and commands

January and February don’t seem busy for me, so I hope to have more done on AMY in the coming months. I also want to thank Prof. Ethan White for his support of my work through December, and for extending his support for the next two months.

AMY 1.0 Released

Sat, 10 Oct 2015 00:00:00 +0000

This post originally appeared on the Software Carpentry website.

We are very pleased to announce the release of Version 1.0 of AMY, our online workshop administration tool. A complete list of features is included in this blog post, and this milestone describes what we're planning to do for Version 1.1. If you enjoy web programming in Django, you'd be welcome to join in.

AMY Version 0.6

Sat, 18 Jul 2015 00:00:00 +0000

This post originally appeared on the Software Carpentry website.

Yesterday was the release day for AMY v0.6.. Here's what's new and what's changed in this release.

Amy Version 0.4

Fri, 19 Jun 2015 00:00:00 +0000

This post originally appeared on the Software Carpentry website.

Today's the deadline for AMY v0.4. It contains a bunch of usability fixes, so all our admins should be happy :-)

GSoC Projects at Summer Sprint

Mon, 21 Jul 2014 00:00:00 +0000

This post originally appeared on the Software Carpentry website.

As you may know, the Mozilla Science Lab's first-ever two-day sprint is in the next few days and all GSoC projects related with Mozilla Science Lab will be part of it. For more information about the plans for the GSoC projects continue reading this post.