[Group Project] Nomos Hackathon

Hi all,

On Saturday, starting at noon and going all night, we’re having our regular Super Happy Hacker House.

Traditionally, these have started in the late morning/early afternoon with a hackathon, but these seem to have faltered as of late.

So this Saturday, the 25th of July, a bunch of us will be there all day, crushing bugs and building features into Nomos, or membership management system (that all of you use!)

We have about 4 people committed so far, let’s get more people on board!

This will be an excellent time to get an introduction to this project, most of the people who know how the system works will be there.

The only prerequisites are that you have some PHP knowledge (or any basic coding abilities, really). Also come with a copy of VirtualBox and Vagrant installed (or if that’s confusing (it is), just have it downloaded and we’ll help you install it).

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I would highly recommend getting PhpStorm as an IDE for PHP if you don’t already have one. This is the one I use and used for putting together most of these components of this project. If you’re planning to attend this hackathon and don’t yet already have access to the GitHub repo, request it here/now so we can try to have you as setup as possible before arriving. I’d rather spend the time coding than worrying about setup!

@Jarrett specifically what time are we starting in the morning?

I’m aiming for 11. Ordering pizza and/or trying to make an omelette on the barbecue might happen for lunch.

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with cheese?

I may be able to join in, although I am busy in the morning, and my laptop can’t handle a VM (or much of anything).

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Cool!

I wanna join/help.

As an infrequent visitor this ought to be a good intro to some more people at the space… and learn me some more PHP.

I’ll get virtualbox & vagrant setup tonight, not sure if I’ll make it in much before noon - but I might be able to!

Cheers,
Al

Also - github access would be for - algrant · GitHub

Thanks!

Can I still participate, even if I’m just doing a complete re-write in a language that doesn’t suck, like Ruby or Clojure? :stuck_out_tongue_closed_eyes:

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Added, and if you need quick help on getting set up, #nomos on Slack is where we’re at

[quote=“seanhagen, post:9, topic:2664, full:true”]
Can I still participate, even if I’m just doing a complete re-write in a language that doesn’t suck, like Ruby or Clojure?
[/quote]Hell yeah, see you there

[sarcasm] I’m confused, are you saying that Ruby sucks? [/sarcasm]

*Edit: added sarcasm tag

I don’t know how to respond to that. I can’t tell if you’re being sarcastic or not.

To answer your question: Ruby does have things about it that suck – every language does, that’s unavoidable. Ruby just sucks a lot less than PHP. The Ruby section in that page is a third the size of the PHP section.

Heh: the Clojure section has two lines.

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This was fun! We had a good turnout, I’d definitely like to turn it into a
monthly thing.

Post-mortem:

Virtualbox and Vagrant took a long time for everyone to get set up. I
updated the readme with some common problems and solutions that people had,
and there’s some more to be done, too.

@laftho spent most of it going over the philosophy of the code, and the
experienced devs seemed to pick it up right away.

There are a few new commits already, and I saw some excellent progress on
some other features in the works.

The next one will be even more productive, now that there have been a whole
bunch of people on-boarded.

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Okay, I’m setting the next group hackathon to Saturday, August 15th, starting 11am and continuing until dinnertime. There will be beer, and I’m sure we can figure out some food stuff, too.

Could somebody add it to the calendar, please?

Once again, if you haven’t done so, download VirtualBox and Vagrant beforehand, these were the biggest timesinks. The files are huge and our internet is not up to the task of a group downloadathon.

Paging:
@laftho @interlock @seanhagen @funvill @Al_Grant @iMakeRobots @bruce @rsim @jade @TyIsI @Rob_MacKenzie @garthomite @KevMacD and anyone else I might be missing?

Added it to the Calendar. For people who don’t know those programs where’s the best place to download?

Thanks.

https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads

Install VirtualBox first, and then Vagrant. Both on the host computer, Vagrant automagically sets up an image for you.

Tks added the links to the calendar posting as well. And I’ll try to show up for this. My programming skills are getting very rusty as of late. I need the practice

Wooh - Nomos Hackathon Round 2! I’ll see you folks there…

Also - I’ll try to finish what I started and push to github sometime before then :smile:

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Bump!

It’s this Saturday. Two days from now! Everyone welcome.

See you there.

Awesome turn out, people. It was super fun and we got a lot done.

@interlock, @laftho, @funvill, @Al_Grant, and @Jade all showed and between us committed ~40 changes and did a lot more work that hasn’t been committed yet.

We’re really close to getting rid of all the old code and being able open-source it properly!

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