Implement ticket payment feature for OSEM about mentoring

This worked:

vagrant box add opensuse/openSUSE-42.1-x86_64 http://downloadcontent.opensuse.org/vagrant/openSUSE-42.1-virtualbox-x86_64-1.0.0.box

[jiteshjha]

Hello! I would like to take on this project for GSOC 2016. How do I proceed? Thanks!

[ChrisBr]

Hi @jiteshjha,

nice to see that you're interested in this project.

1. You should first start forking and checking out OSEM. Note that we have vagrant to make this easier for you!
2. Try to run the testsuite locally and play around with OSEM
3. Pick some JuniorJob and try to fix it.

[arku]

Hello. I would like to work on this project for GSoC '16. I have forked the repository and I have OSEM running on VM using Vagrant. Trying to solve a junior job. Thanks!

[rishabhs95]

Hi. I am Rishabh Saxena, a second year undergraduate currently studying in BIT Mesra, India and I have experience in web development and am very interested to work on this project with GSoC '16 and further. I have forked the repo and will be trying to get some junior job done to get acquainted with the codebase. Can you guide me with some additional things I need to take care of?

[ChrisBr]

@arun1595 @rishabhs95 Great! As stated in my previous comment, your first steps should be to setup your development environment, we recommend using vagrant and try to fix some junior jobs.

Most of our team you can find in IRC, #osem @ freenode.

For GSoC you also need to write a proposal, we recommend to stick to this manual.

If you have more questions, join us on IRC or just comment in this issue!

I have Ruby on Rails running under Ubuntu installed with rvm would this configuration work to contribute?

[ChrisBr]

@alexmex90 any setup with which you can run, code and test OSEM is fine. However, we can't support any system therefore we have a Vagrant box which you can use.

Just start by fixing some of our junior jobs.

[rishabhs95]

@alexmex90 you can run osem using vagrant(preferred), but if you want to run it on your configuration just make sure to execute the commands which vagrant executes to setup its environment, which you can find in your main directory

when I run vagrant up

vm:
* The box 'opensuse/openSUSE-42.1-x86_64' could not be found.

do I have to manually create the box in virtualbox? or should it be automatic?

[rishabhs95]

@alexmex90 have you tried setting up vagrant by following this guide. vagrant sets it up for you automatically if you follow the guide properly.

@rishabhs95 yeah, I followed those steps, but no avail. Do I need a particular version of vagrant and/or virtualbox? I am running Ubuntu 14.04 (Bay Trail kernel bug prevents me from installing something with a kernel newer than 3.16)

[ChrisBr]

@alexmex90 Try to add it manually:

vagrant box add opensuse/openSUSE-42.1-x86_64 https://atlas.hashicorp.com/opensuse/boxes/openSUSE-42.1-x86_64/versions/1.0.0/vagrant/providers/virtualbox.box

Is the URL correct? it returns a 404.

[rishabhs95]

vagrant init opensuse/openSUSE-42.1-x86_64; vagrant up --provider virtualbox
this works for me. check if it does for you @alexmex90

This is what I get.

alex@dellia:~/Documents/Projects/Ruby/osem$ vagrant init opensuse/openSUSE-42.1-x86_64; vagrant up --provider virtualbox
`Vagrantfile` already exists in this directory. Remove it before
running `vagrant init`.
Bringing machine 'default' up with 'virtualbox' provider...
There are errors in the configuration of this machine. Please fix
the following errors and try again:

vm:
* The box 'opensuse/openSUSE-42.1-x86_64' could not be found.

I attempted this, I got this:

alex@dellia:~/Documents/Projects/Ruby/osem$ vagrant box add opensuse/openSUSE-42.1-x86_64 https://atlas.hashicorp.com/opensuse/boxes/openSUSE-42.1-x86_64
Downloading box from URL: https://atlas.hashicorp.com/opensuse/boxes/openSUSE-42.1-x86_64
Extracting box...e: 0/s, Estimated time remaining: --:--:--)
The box failed to unpackage properly. Please verify that the box
file you're trying to add is not corrupted and try again. The
output from attempting to unpackage (if any):

bsdtar: Error opening archive: Unrecognized archive format

[ChrisBr]

@alexmex90 the error message

Vagrantfilealready exists in this directory

is correct because we already have a Vagrantfile.

Does it work now for you or do you still need help?

@ChrisBr Thank you for your answer! It worked with the command I mentioned in my lest post, It worked around 2 a.m. so I haven't had the chance to test anything else, but I was able to run OSEM.

[awasum]

Hello @ChrisBr and @hennevogel ,

My name is Awasum Yannick. i'm a student in the university of buea in cameroon.
I am interest the OSEM project and have already setup my development environment. I am working on my proposal while studying the code base and already fixing common bugs and issues involved in setting up developer environment and basic responsive UI design. How do i submit my proposal to be corrected before uploading to Gsoc?? Should just put the document on google docs and send u the URL??

[ChrisBr]

@awasum yes, sending to us, the opensuse-project mailinglist or just posting in this issue is fine! Thanks!

[awasum]

I think also adding a way for people to pay for tickets using mobile money is very good for this project. What do you think?

[ChrisBr]

Please elaborate what do you mean with mobile money!

[awasum]

Telecom operators in most countries provide payment APIs for integration into e-commerce and m-commerce systems. We could design a way for integrators and conferences to add their payment details and API keys so they can be paid directly. MPESA in kenya and MTN cameroon and Nigeria been prime examples.

[ChrisBr]

@awasum nice idea, however, for this GSoC project I would really like to focus on implementing the ticket feature / payment in a proper and sane way for one provider. If this is done we can think about the next steps ;)

[awasum]

That works fine.

[hennevogel]

Congratulations @rishabhs95 this is your project for GSoC this year! 💐

[rishabhs95]

Thanks @hennevogel and mentors for the help and guidance!
Looking towards an exciting summer ahead! :)