[Talk-ca] Save the date: Toronto Hack Weekend. March 17-18

Richard Weait richard at weait.com
Sat Jan 28 21:05:47 GMT 2012


Dear All,

Save the date.  We've got initial plans for a Toronto Hack Weekend

March 17-18, 2012 (with additional meet and greet on Friday the 16th)

Everything is TBD and uncofirmed, but please indicate your
availability asap.  We're trying to plan this around the limited
availablility of a Very Special Guest.  So don't miss this.

What is an OpenStreetMap Hack Weekend?

Hack weekends have a great history in OSM held most often in London
(England).  They are an opportunity for the most-technical or OSM
enthusiasts to get together to 1) inspire each other 2) learn from
each other 3) solve specific technical challenges.  Technical
challenges addressed at previous hack weekends include, new API
versions[1], OSM internationalization[2], osm.org site performance
improvements, and initial work on projects that became important OSM
tools like Potlatch, search, nominatim, and many other improvements
large and small.

This is primarily a technical event with a large social component.
Everyday mappers are welcome to attend the social portions of this
event.  The main event will be technical and you should be prepared to
code.[3]  :-)

Potential schedule
Friday night - Meet and greet, Mappy hour

Saturday, Hack day one
10 - 13:30 Coffee and code.
13:30 - 14:30 Lunch
14:30 18:00 More code, less coffee
19:30 - ??? Dinner and Mappy hour

Sunday, Hack day two
10 - 13:30 Coffee and code
13:30 - 14:30 Lupper
14:30 - ??? More code

Probable highlights:
Workshop: Introduction to the Rails Port (for new core committers) -
1/2 hour + Q&A
This introduction will ease a capable programmer into being a valued
contributor to the OSM core code base.

Best regards,
Richard


[1] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/2nd_International_OSM_Hack_Weekend_Nov_2008
[2] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/London_Hack_Weekend_May_2009
[3] "code" in this case might include writing OSM rendering style
sheets, or other non-mapping, technical tasks.



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