In the Twin Cities? Interested in helping build a tool to connect nearest neighbors online to build community life?
For context see: http://pages.e-democracy.org/Neighborly http://pages.e-democracy.org/Hackathon And this invite to our next Hackathon. Cheers, Steven Clift, E-Democracy.org From: Ian Bicking <i...@colorstudy.com> Date: Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 12:39 PM Subject: Re: [Neighborly] Next Hackathon in January To: neighbo...@forums.e-democracy.org OK, some details for the next hackathon: Date: Saturday, January 9th Time (tentatively): 2pm until we lose steam. Does that sound good? Location: my place, 3015 10th Ave S (map: http://bit.ly/3015-map), Apt. 2 (left door) Please RSVP (just email me i...@colorstudy.com ) to give me an idea of how many people to expect; but if you forget to RSVP don't let that stop you from coming. Bringing drinks and snacks is appreciated, but don't feel obliged. Before the hackathon: Check out the repository: http://github.com/ianb/neighborly Sign up for an account on github. We're full of trust, so everyone gets push access to the main repository. Try to get Postgres and PostGIS installed on your laptop (if you get stuck someone can surely help you at the hackathon, but it's helpful if you try it out ahead of time). Read the README, some of the mail on this list, ask questions, etc. If you can get the code running, that would be great; it doesn't *do* much right now (the only thing it really does is have some models and the standard Django admin forms). In terms of platform, we've got a skeleton built on Django ( http://www.djangoproject.com/) and GeoDjango (http://geodjango.org/). Reading up on those certainly can't hurt. There's interest in using other platforms (e.g., Ruby), though we haven't talked in depth about how that might work. The most obvious way would be things like a scraper that monitors sites of local interest (e.g., the city website) and finds items of local interest, and then adds them to the system (as kind of generic "interesting local content"). Besides programming, these skills are useful: 1. UI work; HTML, etc. 2. Graphic design help is always awesome and usually missing. 3. Helping build up functional documentation; what are we making, how should it work? (for developer consumption) 4. Site documentation (for user consumption) You've probably noticed Steven has already been doing stuff for 3; if we're all on the same page about what we're trying to build I think we'll be much more efficient, so this is really helpful. Anyone with knowledge of HTML can be immediately helpful by building HTML mockups, wireframes, etc; I think it actually works really well to do this frontend work before implementing the programming behind those forms, so -- Ian Bicking | http://blog.ianbicking.org | http://topplabs.org/civichacker Ian Bicking Powderhorn, Minneapolis Info about Ian Bicking: http://forums.e-democracy.org/p/NJlZooDfpAWbJl2mq1oUW -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-us...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en.
