Thamizha ILUGC Hackathon Report
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arunt...@gmail.com
Oct 10, 2011, 8:59:22 AM10/10/11
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Hello all,
A Hackathon was organized by the ILUGC and Thamizha community members on 9th October, Sunday at TalentSprint, Royapettai, Chennai. There were 16 participants in total.
The morning session started with Arunan demoing the setting up of git and github accounts for the participants through Google Plus Hangout. Then an introduction of the code version using git and how to commit to Thamizha projects were given. There was a demo of Visaneri Project by Kishore Kumar through Google Hangout screen sharing.
Then teams were divided based upon the personal fluency of programming languages. The projects that the teams set on to work on are:
1. Drupal team: Creating a new Thamizha.com site with close integration to the github and easy of use for the users to download software.
2. Python team: The python team started the work of moving an offline wiktionary from the wxPython GUI framework to the PyQt framework.
3. JavaScript Team: This team members were working on developing a new meaning lookup tool using the mediawiki API on the wiktionary site.
4. Content team: This team started to work on translating the gitref.org content to Tamil.
By evening Mugunthraj joined the rest of the team in the Hangout and demoed the entire compilation e-Kalappai software.
I must confess we couldn't complete any of the projects by the evening, but this hackathon provided a nice platform for the developers to get together and get hooked into a project that they can work during their free time in future.
A big thanks to Ashokan Pichai sir for offering the venue and the Kanchi LUG members for taking their time to come down to Chennai.
Personally, I learned a number of lessons regarding event organizing and Open Source Volunteering.
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P.Arunmozhi
Twitter: @tecoholic
Website: http://arunmozhi.in
A Hackathon was organized by the ILUGC and Thamizha community members on 9th October, Sunday at TalentSprint, Royapettai, Chennai. There were 16 participants in total.
The morning session started with Arunan demoing the setting up of git and github accounts for the participants through Google Plus Hangout. Then an introduction of the code version using git and how to commit to Thamizha projects were given. There was a demo of Visaneri Project by Kishore Kumar through Google Hangout screen sharing.
Then teams were divided based upon the personal fluency of programming languages. The projects that the teams set on to work on are:
1. Drupal team: Creating a new Thamizha.com site with close integration to the github and easy of use for the users to download software.
2. Python team: The python team started the work of moving an offline wiktionary from the wxPython GUI framework to the PyQt framework.
3. JavaScript Team: This team members were working on developing a new meaning lookup tool using the mediawiki API on the wiktionary site.
4. Content team: This team started to work on translating the gitref.org content to Tamil.
By evening Mugunthraj joined the rest of the team in the Hangout and demoed the entire compilation e-Kalappai software.
I must confess we couldn't complete any of the projects by the evening, but this hackathon provided a nice platform for the developers to get together and get hooked into a project that they can work during their free time in future.
A big thanks to Ashokan Pichai sir for offering the venue and the Kanchi LUG members for taking their time to come down to Chennai.
Personally, I learned a number of lessons regarding event organizing and Open Source Volunteering.
--
Regards
P.Arunmozhi
Twitter: @tecoholic
Website: http://arunmozhi.in
Arunan Skanthan
Nov 8, 2011, 12:49:52 AM11/8/11
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@arunmozhi can u pls copy-paste this as a news article on thamizha.com ty!
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