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Marketing Team/Events/Sugarcamp Boston 2008/hackathon (view source)
Revision as of 20:08, 24 February 2010
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* Monday, November 17, 2008
* Monday, November 17, 2008
* Evening (starting at perhaps 6:30 with dinner, and continuing until 10 or however late the space we get is open)
* 6:30pm - 10pm (we will order food together at the beginning; bring your own $ for dinner)
* We're still looking for a space. Can you host? Email mel at laptop dot org!
* One Broadway, Cambridge MA 02142 (at the corner of Broadway and 3rd, by the Kendall T stop)
* Call [[User:Mchua|Mel Chua]] to be let in when you arrive - 847.970.8484
== About ==
== About ==
* Tom Boyle (StarChart, focusing on localization)
* Tom Boyle (StarChart, focusing on localization)
* [[User:Wade|Wade]] (Sugar Activity development)
* [[User:Wade|Wade]] (Sugar Activity development)
* Brian Jordan (Sugar Activity development, Pippy love)
* Amanda Peyton (MIT Sloan project looking at the SugarLabs organizational structure)
* Ryan Kabir (new development contributor to Sugar, looking for a place to start)
* Brendan Powers (new contributor,looking for something simple to get used to the project)
* Chris Ball (from 7:30)
* Erik Blankinship (updating the Map Activity)
== Stuff to hack on ==
* Spreadsheet activity: http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/sugar/2008-February/004225.html
* Mind mapping activity: http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/olpc-sur/2008-November/001173.html
* Make the Sugar shell react to changes in the ~/Activities dir using inotify.
* A quiz game with competitive collaboration (cjb) -- e.g. generate arithmetic problems, have a shared countdown, and then the first person to answer correctly gets the most points. Generalizable to quizes about non-math stuff too.
* A simple searching game: "hot/cold" where the XO is hiding somewhere on the screen (not displayed) and as the cursor moves closer or farther from the XO, the computer responds warmer/colder or hot/cold.
== To do ==
== To do ==
Let [[User:Mchua|Mchua]] (mel at laptop dot org) know if you can help!
Let [[User:Mchua|Mchua]] (mel at laptop dot org) know if you can help!
* Get a location with wifi, projectors, and ready access to food (which probably means "order pizza, then ask everyone if they can chip in a few dollars when it comes).
* <s>Get a location with wifi, projectors, and ready access to food (which probably means "order pizza, then ask everyone if they can chip in a few dollars when it comes).</s>
* make invitations and send them out
* <s>make invitations and send them out</s>
* find some way to make nametags for everybody
* <s>find some way to make nametags for everybody</s> (Actually, we probably won't need these - we're small enough.)
* make sure that the location gets set up (chairs, tables, etc.) and taken down/cleaned-up afterwards
* make sure that the location gets set up (chairs, tables, etc.) and taken down/cleaned-up afterwards
* send thank-you follow up emails after the event encouraging people to come to the rest of Sugarcamp
* send thank-you follow up emails after the event encouraging people to come to the rest of Sugarcamp