Hackathon/developer event ideas

[Nick Nguyen]

Hi all,

We're thinking about putting on some sort of event to get developers hacking on our platform.  Here are some ideas:

• An in-person event (Mountain View, CA) where people can come into our office, eat good food, drink good drinks, and write good code while having us around to help out and listen.
• A virtual event where we're all on IRC/Hangout and are available to provide real time advice and help
• A 1 day/week/month (TBD) contest where the winner of our hack contest gets a meaningful prize and some help with promoting their activity

Do any of these resonate with any of you?  Any suggestions on events (particularly if you had experience with a similar event that was really good) would be super useful.

Thanks!

-Nick

[Samuel Carlisle]

We are having a mini hackathon now at London Hackspace (3 guys)! If anyone is in the IRC channel now and for the next 4 hours that would be super useful.

*Feedback so far*
-At first glance the documentation is a bit hidden both in the tar.gz and the website...it appears to just be cyclical links from readme file to human.io/docs which links back to the readme. This could be addressed by changing the stucture of the top level nav in the left hand vertical menu and providing some actualy documentation in the readme file (obviously which is revisioned and locked to the current version of the code- another reason to use git because then the website will not be a static resource which falls behind when the code is updated...
-We were a bit sad that we could not see the server code, we would have been interested and we were also thinking of some other advance features / possibilites which would really require some insight as to how the server is programmed.
-Is there not an official git / github repository? This would greatly speed up collaboration.
-Since the server is closed source and the code cannot be verified by the community, you have greatly limited the scope / applicability of the service. We wil not be able to use this great invention for personal or sensitive data.
-We were sad to see the android app not working when it it really just appears to be a web view. I have been using: http://api.human.io/client.html instead since this is all the app appears to be loading up anyway...

*Questions*
Are you apps vulverable to session hijacking is the session id is known?
Can this id be guessed? Are they randomly generated or sequential? Just curious.

What

[Lawrence Kesteloot]

On Sat, Sep 29, 2012 at 7:04 AM, Samuel Carlisle
<samuelc...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Are you apps vulverable to session hijacking is the session id is known?

You have to be authenticated with the right developer info to affect a
session, even if you know the session ID. (The session must belong to
the authenticated developer.)

> Can this id be guessed? Are they randomly generated or sequential? Just curious.

All of our IDs are random and cannot be guessed. The exception is that
you're free to specify your own app ID and task ID, but no one else
can use those because internally they're scoped to your developer
account. Another developer would not be able to access your apps or
tasks.

Lawrence

[srt]

This sounds like a great idea. I can do Mountain View or a Hangout.

I've co-organized some hackathons in NYC for OccupyData and think the
hackathon framework might work well for you too. For example, it can
increase the visibility of human.io, attract non-programmer types
dying to get started on apps, get you more demo apps, and help
strengthen the community you are building.

In terms of organizing events more generally, I think appealing to all
levels helps, and you already do that nicely. Also, in NYC you say
`skillshare' and people will come, or `prize' and people will build
apps. I'd imagine that works here too :)

Just some thoughts - Suzanne

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