HackathonSG [16/04/2010]

[JasonOng]

Hi guys

The date and venue's set for our first HackathonSG.

Date: 16th April 2010
Time: 7pm onwards
Venue: HackerspaceSG, 70A Bussorah Street
Price: Free + food & drinks provided

Come take part in the geekiest event in town and help make it an
awesome hack party.

I've set up an RSVP list on Google spreadsheet. Just add your twitter/
name there or a "+1" to this thread.

https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0AjiQoiCCcWwydGxwOUF0ZG1nYUNlR2V5UzFSV1ZfT0E&hl=en

Feel free to invite your dev buddies outside SRB too!

[JasonOng]

Hi guys

Tomorrow will be our inaugural HackathonSG. Yippee!

Since it's out first time, format has not been set. I'll propose the
following:

7-7:30pm
Dinner + social interaction

7:30-8:30pm
Brain dumping session + "Team" formation

8:30-9:15pm
First sprint

9:15-9:30pm
Progress check

9:30-10:30pm
Second sprint

10:30-11pm
Project status check

11-*
Sprint till we can't sprint no more

Might be idealistic so we'll have to play by ear. Anyway it's a
hackathon... so do hack the format! :)

P.S. This event IS NOT MEANT FOR DISCUSSION OF TOPICS OR SOCIALIZING
(there's no stopping you from doing so though) so expect bare minimum
discussion & QUICK DIVE INTO CODING. More food can be ordered in as
the night progresses. Help yourself to the coffee machine too.

On Apr 7, 10:53 am, JasonOng <velve...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi guys
>
> The date and venue's set for our first HackathonSG.
>
> Date: 16th April 2010
> Time: 7pm onwards
> Venue: HackerspaceSG, 70A Bussorah Street
> Price: Free + food & drinks provided
>
> Come take part in the geekiest event in town and help make it an
> awesome hack party.
>
> I've set up an RSVP list on Google spreadsheet. Just add your twitter/
> name there or a "+1" to this thread.
>

> https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0AjiQoiCCcWwydGxwOUF0ZG1nYUNl...

[motochan]

Woot see you guys there tonight! I'm looking for dinner kakis before
that, say at 6.30pm.

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[Jason Ong]

Hi guys I've created a public brain dump page for today's hackathon. Please feel free to add any ideas format and projects. Those who can't make it can contribute too :)

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[Jason Ong]

Oops. Forgot to add the link. :P

http://docs.google.com/document/edit?id=1Y90E6gMCfhbhljdoOE3SdvQzv3uSHKjV_Bvg5r_jwNg&hl=en

[Cheng Renquan]

On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 10:53 AM, JasonOng <velv...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi guys
>
> The date and venue's set for our first HackathonSG.
>
> Date: 16th April 2010
> Time: 7pm onwards
> Venue: HackerspaceSG, 70A Bussorah Street
> Price: Free + food & drinks provided
>
> Come take part in the geekiest event in town and help make it an
> awesome hack party.

Seems still all "ruby & web". Web is too easy, I'm longing some real
hack in linux kernel level or some C low level work, for long term;

http://www.e27.sg/2009/11/13/save-the-date-hackerspace-sg-housewarming-on-nov-21/

"All persuasions are welcome. (Except OCaml. Those guys are just too weird.)"

I still don't understand why HackerspaceSG exclude OCaml? Is it
deliberately? Why? Previously we SMU research staff finish binary
obfuscation projects through OCaml programming,

and recent period working on GCC-4.5 plugin framework, it's latest
real hack, on compilers,

http://github.com/hopecream/GCC_plugins/

[Choon Keat (Chew)]

I'm sure it was tongue in cheek. See you there later, Renquan

Sent from my iPhone

[sausheong]

Guys my recovery not optimistic today (or even the weekend), won't be
going to Hackerspace for the Hackathon. BUT I will be online and I
hope to be able to join you guys in virtual hacking :) Unless I'm
conked out with all the medication I'm taking now.

Add me in GTalk!

On Apr 16, 2:33 pm, "Choon Keat (Chew)" <choonk...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm sure it was tongue in cheek. See you there later, Renquan
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On 16-Apr-2010, at 2:27 PM, Cheng Renquan <crq...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> > On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 10:53 AM, JasonOng <velve...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> Hi guys
>
> >> The date and venue's set for our first HackathonSG.
>
> >> Date: 16th April 2010
> >> Time: 7pm onwards
> >> Venue: HackerspaceSG, 70A Bussorah Street
> >> Price: Free + food & drinks provided
>
> >> Come take part in the geekiest event in town and help make it an
> >> awesome hack party.
>
> > Seems still all "ruby & web". Web is too easy, I'm longing some real
> > hack in linux kernel level or some C low level work, for long term;
>

> >http://www.e27.sg/2009/11/13/save-the-date-hackerspace-sg-housewarmin...

>
> >  "All persuasions are welcome. (Except OCaml. Those guys are just  
> > too weird.)"
>
> > I still don't understand why HackerspaceSG exclude OCaml? Is it
> > deliberately? Why? Previously we SMU research staff finish binary
> > obfuscation projects through OCaml programming,
>
> > and recent period working on GCC-4.5 plugin framework, it's latest
> > real hack, on compilers,
>
> >http://github.com/hopecream/GCC_plugins/
>
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[Kamal Fariz Mahyuddin]

I was so close to attending. Got all the way to the Second Link even!
Discovered midway in the bus that my passport expired on the 1st of
April 2010. Back in KL now. Anyway, have fun!

BTW, that WebView driver I mentioned once before as a hack idea?
Here's the harmony gem which uses envjs and Johnson: cross-platform,
single thread http://github.com/mynyml/harmony


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[Luther Goh Lu Feng]

For those attending the hackathon virtually, it is possible to go to #hackerspacesg on irc.freenode.net

Or use hackerspace.sg/chat

[Herryanto Siatono]

Kamal,

You forgot rule no 1, always check and re-check your passport. :)

Was looking forward to see you again, till next time then.

Cheers,

Herry

[Jason Ong]

Yeah was looking forward to seeing Kamal. It's been long since Geekcamp. See ya (Kamal) at BarcampKL then!

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[motochan]

Hey guys, just wanted to thank all of you for coming down to support
us at the first Hackathon. I posted some photos, a video fly-by and
wrote my thoughts down on this blog entry (http://www.motochan.com/
2010/04/17/hackathonsg-1/).

Moving forward, I'd love to hear what became of the projects, and hope
I can get some volunteers to spruce up the existing hackathon.sg site
(CSS, appropriate collaboration platforms/plugins, or even a ground-up
ruby implementation instead of the buddypress/WP system we have in
place).

I'll probably be putting up the photos and videos in a blog entry at
hackathon.sg soon too.

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[Patrick Haller]

On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 04:20:52AM -0700, motochan wrote:
> Hey guys, just wanted to thank all of you for coming down to support
> us at the first Hackathon. I posted some photos, a video fly-by and
> wrote my thoughts down on this blog entry (http://www.motochan.com/
> 2010/04/17/hackathonsg-1/).

How about a Hackathon on a Saturday, starting at 11 or so? That would
give an hour for pitches and ideation; then lunching and a bunch of
hacking till hunger struck again. Alltogether that'd probably double the
amount of hacking.


Patrick

[Zhenyi Tan]

+1

And hopefully there'll be no more "We're so close to demo! But this
guy wants to go home!"
(Err... I'm "that guy".)

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[Jason Ong]

Thanks James for the nice summary on your blog. I would consider HackathonSG#1 our trial session.

Things to debug:

- Friday night too short --> Saturday as Patrick propose as most ppl couldn't stay later than midnight
- Pitching could have been better --> devs should have been more vocal about their opinions
- Team formation was ok but some guys couldn't decide what to work on --> ?
- More talk than code --> some projects wasn't started from scratch so team leader needed to do lots of explanations
- Food should arrive earlier
- Canadian's ok. Btw we wiped out our sponsored fund (food + drinks)!

Guys what are your opinions on session#1? What's good and bad? Suggestions for improvements? :)

cheers,
Jason

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On Apr 19, 2010 9:49 PM, "Patrick Haller" <patrick...@gmail.com> wrote:

On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 04:20:52AM -0700, motochan wrote: > Hey guys, just wanted to thank all of yo...

How about a Hackathon on a Saturday, starting at 11 or so? That would
give an hour for pitches and ideation; then lunching and a bunch of
hacking till hunger struck again. Alltogether that'd probably double the
amount of hacking.


Patrick

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[sausheong]

Looks like a great time! I was hacking along at home nursing a flu and
checking in occasionally in IRC.

I think Fri evening is generally not a great idea, people are tired
after a full day of work and it's a Friday where most people with
families would go back home. Time is too short as well. I was hacking
till 1am and knocked off, found out next morning no one else was there
any more. A full day on Sat, maybe extended till Sun would be nice.

SMU would be a great location I think except parking really sucks.

On Apr 19, 10:08 pm, Jason Ong <velve...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks James for the nice summary on your blog. I would consider
> HackathonSG#1 our trial session.
>
> Things to debug:
>
> - Friday night too short --> Saturday as Patrick propose as most ppl
> couldn't stay later than midnight
> - Pitching could have been better --> devs should have been more vocal about
> their opinions
> - Team formation was ok but some guys couldn't decide what to work on --> ?
> - More talk than code --> some projects wasn't started from scratch so team
> leader needed to do lots of explanations
> - Food should arrive earlier
> - Canadian's ok. Btw we wiped out our sponsored fund (food + drinks)!
>
> Guys what are your opinions on session#1? What's good and bad? Suggestions
> for improvements? :)
>
> cheers,
> Jason
>
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>

[Herryanto Siatono]

Hello Moto ..hm..sounds familiar,

That's a great coverage, thanks for being there and helping out with the arrangement as well.

I agree that the time was short, and Friday wasn't really the best time. But, it's great to finally break the ice with some of the Rubyists.

Cheers,

Herry

[Meng Weng Wong]

Superhappydevhouses tend to run all day on the weekend...

[Patrick Haller]

On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 10:08:57PM +0800, Jason Ong wrote:
>
> - Team formation was ok but some guys couldn't decide what to work on
> --> ?

That's ok, people who weren't interested in any of the ideas can hang
out/work on other projects. All the project'ing groups should think of
them as intelligence on tap, i.e. if you have a problem that your group
doesn't have a domain expert for, go ask them.

> - More talk than code --> some projects wasn't started from scratch so
> team leader needed to do lots of explanations

When people bring their own already-started projects, they should
probably advertise that prior to the list, so that interested people can
check out the repo and orient themselves ahead of time.


Patrick

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[Jason Ong]

More suggestions after discussion with my colleagues this noon.

- Projects should be pitched well ahead of the actual hackathon. Project leader should state what skill sets are needed and volunteers with relevant skills sign up else can introduce someone else who does.

- Rooms will be prepared based on no. of projects and team size.

- Those who hadn't sign up for project participation can either replace those who hadn't turn up, work on ad-doc projects or just hang out.

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