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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
** http://vimeo.com/groups/13013/videos/6601634
* 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)