hackathon at CAMP on Saturday, 9th feb

[Sanjay Bhangar]

Hey all,

Sorry for the delayed notice on this --

We're hosting a hackathon at CAMP [1] [2] on Saturday 9th Feb, 3pm onwards.

The broad agenda is to build an open platform for book-sharing in the city.

A few artist's organizations have come together as the Umbrella group
to collaborate on spaces and projects. As part of this, we plan to
index all the books in our various collections, and enable access to
them. We're using http://openlibrary.org to enter data about the books
and associate them with groups / people that own them.

The plan is, to start with, build a simple website to find books
you're looking for and who to contact to get access to them, using the
openlibrary.org API, but is completely open to ideas to facilitate
sharing of things, both digital and analog.

The event also marks solidarity with Aaron Swartz. [3]

If this seems interesting, bring your laptop / coding device and come
- wifi, food and beer shall be provided.

Please circulate if you know anyone who maybe interested.

Thanks,
Sanjay

[1] http://camputer.org/directions.html
[2] http://camputer.org/campstudio.html
[3] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-tag/2013Jan/0017.html

[Yousuf Fauzan]

Damn it B, thats too delayed a notice. Already committed my Saturday. Available on Sunday though.

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[Sanjay Bhangar]

On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 1:53 PM, Yousuf Fauzan <yousuf...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Damn it B, thats too delayed a notice. Already committed my Saturday.
> Available on Sunday though.
>

Ok, so its now a two-day event :) - see you on Sunday, sir ..

But also, hopefully things can go on a bit late on Saturday - 3pm is a
bit ambitious, but also allows for some time for setup, etc..
everyone, feel free to stream in later .. and depending on how things
go, we'll make a plan for Sunday - Yousuf, if it seems fun, lets meet
on Sunday anyway, and others can come if they like -- so, tentatively,
then, we do this as a fairly open thing between Saturday and Sunday -
in that, I'll be here at CAMP and working on it, and if folks come in,
we make it a bit of a party / people contribute towards aspects of
development, and if not, i'll sit in my dungeon and code :) - if
people don't have programming skills, but want to attend, please do
come - we'll put you to work indexing books :)

And yes, I apologize for the terribly last minute thing, but hopefully
this is a kick-off toward something more sustained - so whoever can /
wants to make it any time Saturday 3pm to late or Sunday 3pm to late,
just get in touch with me -- numbers on
http://camputer.org/campstudio.html or email, just come - it is
impossible to get timings to suit everyone in bombay, so lets just
keep the window really wide and see what happens :)

Hope to see a bunch've folks here - cheers,
Sanjay

[Anand Chitipothu]

On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 1:51 PM, Sanjay Bhangar <sanjay...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hey all,
>
> Sorry for the delayed notice on this --
>
> We're hosting a hackathon at CAMP [1] [2] on Saturday 9th Feb, 3pm onwards.
>
> The broad agenda is to build an open platform for book-sharing in the city.
>
> A few artist's organizations have come together as the Umbrella group
> to collaborate on spaces and projects. As part of this, we plan to
> index all the books in our various collections, and enable access to
> them. We're using http://openlibrary.org to enter data about the books
> and associate them with groups / people that own them.
>
> The plan is, to start with, build a simple website to find books
> you're looking for and who to contact to get access to them, using the
> openlibrary.org API, but is completely open to ideas to facilitate
> sharing of things, both digital and analog.
>
> The event also marks solidarity with Aaron Swartz. [3]

Good to see another event in memory of Aaron.

I'm one of of the core developers of Open Library. Feel free to get in
touch with me if you need any help with Open Library APIs.

Did you consider using lists of keeping track of books owned by each person?

Anand
http://anandology.com/

[Sanjay Bhangar]

On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 2:06 PM, Anand Chitipothu <anand...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Good to see another event in memory of Aaron.
>
> I'm one of of the core developers of Open Library. Feel free to get in
> touch with me if you need any help with Open Library APIs.
>
> Did you consider using lists of keeping track of books owned by each person?
>

hey Anand,

Thanks much for mailing - I was about to try and get in touch with you :)

I think that's the idea, yes - that people enter data into
openlibrary.org as owned by their username, and then we make API calls
to fetch books owned by each user and figure out some of the search
features of the API .. I'm still not sure if we have a middle layer
where we cache things in our db or just use the API directly, but so
far in just testing things out the past few weeks, the OpenLibrary API
is really pleasant to work with ..

Do you guys have an IRC or so - perhaps whoever is here (and anyone
who's interested who's not here) can sign onto the IRC room and if
you're around, we can poke you on issues :)

Thanks much!
-Sanjay


> Anand
> http://anandology.com/

[Anand Chitipothu]

On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 2:09 PM, Sanjay Bhangar <sanjay...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 2:06 PM, Anand Chitipothu <anand...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Good to see another event in memory of Aaron.
>>
>> I'm one of of the core developers of Open Library. Feel free to get in
>> touch with me if you need any help with Open Library APIs.
>>
>> Did you consider using lists of keeping track of books owned by each person?
>>
>
> hey Anand,
>
> Thanks much for mailing - I was about to try and get in touch with you :)
>
> I think that's the idea, yes - that people enter data into
> openlibrary.org as owned by their username, and then we make API calls
> to fetch books owned by each user and figure out some of the search
> features of the API .. I'm still not sure if we have a middle layer
> where we cache things in our db or just use the API directly, but so
> far in just testing things out the past few weeks, the OpenLibrary API
> is really pleasant to work with ..
>
> Do you guys have an IRC or so - perhaps whoever is here (and anyone
> who's interested who's not here) can sign onto the IRC room and if
> you're around, we can poke you on issues :)

Open Library allows users to create list of books. For example:

http://openlibrary.org/people/mlindner/lists/OL28655L/Books_Read_in_2013

I suggest the following workflow for adding books to your website.

* User create one fore more lists on openlibrary.org
* User comes to your website and enters his openlibrary username
* The website show the lists he created on openlibrary and ask him to
select some
* The website starts indexing all the books in the lists he selected
and other users will be able to find them from search.

Yes, lets move to IRC. How about #openlibrary?

Anand

[Yousuf Fauzan]

I will see you guys on Sunday then. :)

[Sanjay Bhangar]

Had a great time over the weekend :)

Learned a lot of new things, got to play with a few things that I've
been wanting to play with, etc. - I'll try and write a more detailed
post soon -- here's the code repository, though:
http://github.com/cosmicnag/umbrella

We've used: postgres + mongodb and django for the back-end, jade for
templating, and require.js, backbone and coffee-script for the
front-end .. its basic working code right now to fetch a list of
books from openlibrary, index them in our local mongodb instance, and
output some json, with some front-end design and a basic view for
backbone, etc. to render the json .. a few things need to be added
before it can go 'live', but i think its a great starting point and we
hope to work more on it in the next few weeks ..

sorry the repository is a slight mess right now - shall be doing some
clean-ups, etc. once I recover :)

Cheers,
Sanjay