Dublin CodeJam - 2007

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Open Letter from Conor O'Neill:

You may have seen that the MashupCamp guys have postponed. They did a terrible job of communicating to the development community here so I am not surprised.

We're wondering if you guys would be up for a late-night CodeJam starting maybe 5pm on Wed 12th September and running until everyone falls down asleep?

Had a few simple ideas:

Build a Facebook App

Or Web2Ireland mini Social Network.

Or a Code-Off: Django/TG/Pylons vs Ruby vs .Net to build X

Or a competition

Or a even a mini MashupCamp

If ye could drum up enough interest I could look into sponsorship for prizes etc?

Ditto re a venue. With a decent crew I think we could get someone to host it. I could even see if EI would like to be involved from a branding perspective.

What do you think?

Conor

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When

What about September?: Conor O'Neill (LouderVoice, Blognation Ireland) is doing a piece on events in September and would like to include DublinCodeJam.

These are the events we are currently aware of for September:

10th-14th - Web2Ireland Week with MashupCamp, MashupUni, PaddysValley Meetup, DemoBar/FOWA and DOCC

22nd - BarCampGalway

29th - PodCamp Kilkenny

Perhaps Web2Ireland week would be a good opportunity to promote the event and attract interested people. How to best capitalise on that?

Where

Exoftware have offered use of their offices in Guinness Enterprise Centre on a weekend for the event.

Open to suggestions of other locations and they don't need to be in Dublin.

Location Requirements

• wireless connectivity (thinking about DublinBarCamp)

Software Stack

If everyone is working on same project we need to agree on a few basics for software stack for consistency. Here's a start

Infrastructure

• subversion 1.4
• mysql 5.0
• ssh for linux/mac
• putty for windows

Rails stack

• ruby 1.8.5 -- Olivier: any reason not to use 1.8.6?
• rails 1.2.3 -- Olivier: any reason not to use edge?
• capistrano

Python

• Django, Turbogears, other? Python fold need to decide, if its just me (Sean), ill give myself a ruby crash course first, Can people maybe add their language to the list below?

Java

• (Paul B) - would be interested in deploying the code via JRuby and calling Enterprise Java Services

This could be easier said than done, as people from more than one language community

have been invited, it might be easier to split the app up into frontend / backend teams , and

or multiple services.

Okay, I've reorged the above. Those for other communities should add the basics. These are just the raw materials. We should avoid the day turning into an exercise of getting environments running, rather than coding.

Attendees

Name, Site/Company/Organisation/Blog/Profile, Travelling from,

1. Olivier Ansaldi, Ozonesoft / Twitter, Dublin
2. Sean O'Donnell, Dublin, Python
3. Tony Byrne, Dublin - Blog
4. Niall Larkin, Relevant M / Blog-Clunky Flow / Twitter, Dublin
5. John Ward, Blog/Twitter, Dublin
6. Andrea Magnorsky, Twitter, Dublin
7. Paul Browne , FirstPartners.net - Ruby Blog , Drogheda / Dublin
8. Ciaran Lee, Twitter, Dublin
9. Aidan Finn, www.aidanf.net / twitter,Galway/Sligo
10. Bartosz Blimke/ Dublin

Proposals

A + E Waiting times

• Just thought of a good mashup for codejam, slightly political but what the hell
• A&E waiting times. Basically we create a map based solution of A&E's around the country and we ask the community to add how long they were waiting to be seen.
• This data will be direct from public mouth rather than the spin we hear
• John Ward
• Conn Hennessy of OpenApp.ie gave a talk at BarCamp Belfast on their OSS Python/Zope3 Map-based solutions for presenting HSE data.