London Hack Day Feb 2008

This is a Past event which took place in February 2008

OSM Hacking Day, London, Feb 2008

Shaun McDonald, Jon Burgess, Andy Allan, Steve, Nick Black, Tom Hughes , Harry Wood, Xin Zheng, Dave Stubbs (obscured) and Martijn van Exel

• When? Saturday Feb 23rd, 10am
• Where? Riverbank House, One Putney Bridge Approach, SW6 3JD Putney, London
• What? A day to spend hacking (developing) OSM code with your fellow contributors. Come along and help improve the OSM codebase -- everything from editing, and API to rendering. Pick your own topic...
• Who? You!

Who attended

• Randomjunk
• Gravitystorm
• User:Steve
• TomH
• nickb
• XinZ
• djanda
• Smsm1
• Martijn van Exel came from Amsterdam!
• Harry Wood
• Firefishy (Grant)

What happened?

User:firefishy updating Servers/tile

The idea was that everybody picked a subject they wanted to spend the day on, and brought a goal. Everybody hacked away, asked questions, worked together, learn about how things work, and showed off their efforts.

Some goals/things we achieved, or may have achieved

• Potlatch: Add route relations editing suitable for cycle routes. -- Randomjunk
• Wrote the documentation for contours on the cycle map --Gravitystorm
• API: Writing some RSpec tests XinZ
• Discuss €15.000 Funding for Software Development - Proposal - Martijn van Exel
• Considering/discussing Single sign on across OSM sites - Firefishy
• Firefishy was also doing some set-up of the new Servers/tile
• Harry Wood did some tweaks to MediaWiki extensions. They are now installed and running on this wiki.
• Steve added support for mugshot photos on your OSM profile page.