Hackathon at Open Source Bridge?

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Dietrich Ayala

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May 2, 2009, 7:08:52 PM5/2/09
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For those who are attending the conference, the hacker lounge at Open
Source Bridge might be a good time/spot to sprint on a game:

http://opensourcebridge.org/wiki/Hacker_Lounge

Alain B

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May 3, 2009, 12:43:30 AM5/3/09
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Thats a great idea Dietrich. I'm game (pun intended).

AdamD

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May 4, 2009, 2:12:35 AM5/4/09
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I agree that it's a great plan. As an Open Source Bridge planner, I
may be biased.

Now all we need is someone to make it happen? Edit this Wiki page:
http://opensourcebridge.org/wiki/Hacker_Lounge

Matimus

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May 4, 2009, 12:13:19 PM5/4/09
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I was hoping to attend a sprint at OSB. I'm certainly willing to
contribute to this one.

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Alain Bloch

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May 4, 2009, 2:26:17 PM5/4/09
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So what will we be doing during our sprint? What do we want to focus on? Could we code some game-related patterns in JS? Should we be focusing on creating a game?

Also, I noticed that Dietrich is having a hack session, and I saw a DiSo session I'd like to attend. What day works out best for everyone?

Bram Pitoyo

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May 4, 2009, 2:50:35 PM5/4/09
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Perhaps if we organize it around a certain time of the day (evening?
late evening?) folks would be more likely to show up and hack?

Adam DiCarlo

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May 7, 2009, 2:43:31 AM5/7/09
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What about a tower defense game, like a Fieldrunners clone? That
should be challenging to get working with decent performance, though
possible (I'd think).

I don't remember if we discussed this -- but I'm guessing using Safari
4 or Chrome would be necessary to play any decently computing-
intensive JS browser game, right?

Adam

On May 4, 11:26 am, Alain Bloch <alainbl...@gmail.com> wrote:
> So what will we be doing during our sprint? What do we want to focus on?
> Could we code some game-related patterns in JS? Should we be focusing on
> creating a game?
>
> Also, I noticed that Dietrich is having a hack session, and I saw a DiSo
> session I'd like to attend. What day works out best for everyone?
>

Alain Bloch

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May 7, 2009, 2:53:14 AM5/7/09
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I think anything that runs HTML 5 would be okay.

Dietrich - want to chime in?

As far as the game, a tower defense game is a cool idea. Though, I would like to work on something that is simple and can be finished during the sprint. If we can establish some simple rules for it than i'd be more inclined.

Adam DiCarlo

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May 7, 2009, 3:09:36 AM5/7/09
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To keep it simple, starting with a fixed-path tower defense setup
would probably be a good idea (there's a fixed "road" on the map where
you cannot build towers; all baddies follow that path exactly). That
could be doable within a sprint. After that, I'd see the logical next
step as "the bad guys use follow-right-hand-wall pathfinding," and
after that, A*.

Adam

Dietrich Ayala

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May 7, 2009, 2:26:17 PM5/7/09
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i just ran the Sunspider test suite on the browsers i have installed
on my mac, here are the results (smaller is better).

Firefox 2.0: 12258.2ms

Safari 3.2: 3283.8ms
Firefox 3.0: 3072.0ms

Firefox 3.5: 1185.0ms
Chromium.app: 860.6ms

Safari 4 is likely in the same ballbark area as Chromium, from the
other perf test data i've seen.

unsurprisingly, any of the next generation of as-yet-unreleased
browsers that offer these HTML5 features will be the best choice from
a performance perspective.

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Bram Pitoyo

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May 7, 2009, 3:20:57 PM5/7/09
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Easy. We’ll just make our game Chromium-compatible (ha!)

I assume that most everyone have seen http://chromeexperiments.com/ -
I believe there are some functional games on that site, built with JS.

Dietrich Ayala

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May 7, 2009, 4:02:33 PM5/7/09
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I added us to the list:

http://opensourcebridge.org/wiki/Hacker_Lounge

On May 4, 11:26 am, Alain Bloch <alainbl...@gmail.com> wrote:
> So what will we be doing during our sprint? What do we want to focus on?
> Could we code some game-related patterns in JS? Should we be focusing on
> creating a game?
>
> Also, I noticed that Dietrich is having a hack session, and I saw a DiSo
> session I'd like to attend. What day works out best for everyone?
>

Dietrich Ayala

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Jun 18, 2009, 12:29:57 AM6/18/09
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Hey y'all,

We're going to get this rolling tomorrow night at 7pm. That's
Thursday, 7pm at the Hackers Lounge at the Hilton.

Alain and I talked about Pong for a proof of concept: classic, a bit
of physics, and also is a good example to test some of these various
libs we've been posting to the list. If you have other ideas, post em
here!

-d

AdamD

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Jun 18, 2009, 2:04:58 AM6/18/09
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Starting simple like that makes tons of sense to me. If we get past
that, we'll be doing very good.

Looking forward to seeing everybody up in the Hacker Lounge!
--Adam

On Jun 17, 9:29 pm, Dietrich Ayala <auton...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hey y'all,
>
> We're going to get this rolling tomorrow night at 7pm. That's
> Thursday, 7pm at the Hackers Lounge at the Hilton.
>
> Alain and I talked about Pong for a proof of concept: classic, a bit
> of physics, and also is a good example to test some of these various
> libs we've been posting to the list. If you have other ideas, post em
> here!
>
> -d
>

Alain Bloch

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Jun 18, 2009, 5:58:57 PM6/18/09
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Hey guys. Just bumpin' the mail to remind everyone that we're meeting 7pm@Hilton for our first hack session.
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