London Hack Weekend May 2011

The London Hack Weekend May 2011 took place on Saturday 21st and Sunday 22nd May in London

This is a past event, but keep an eye on London#events and OSMlondon for details of new hack events and workshops.

Contents 1 Thanks 2 What got hacked this time? 3 Hack Weekend? 4 Sign up list

Thanks

Big thanks to AOL/MapQuest again for providing two large meeting rooms in their London offices near Goodge Street, and thanks again to Matt for making that happen and sorting things out on the day.

What got hacked this time?

• User:Matt fixed some evil infinite looping bug which was showing up intermittently as rails processed diff uploads. This involved some in-depth diagnostics and then code changes to allow an upgrade to libxml. Looking good so far. The problem may be fixed.
• User:TomH worked on reviewing a lot of work by Amm.
  • The code branch formerly known as "OpenStreetBugs" is now called "notes" (a less geeky name for reporting bugsnotes on the map) Not quite deployed yet, but getting there
  • The OpenID work is also under review (allowing people to create an account authenticated by some other provider instead of setting up a new account on OpenStreetMap.org)

• User:gravitystorm and User:Richard did Potlatch 2 stuff.
  • history dialogs (not quite deployed yet)
  • Updates to stylesheets and POI menus

• User:Kachkaev did some work on JOSM plugins: Some improvements to JOSM/Plugins/Terracer, and JOSM/Plugins/ImproveWayAccuracy, a patch for JOSM CredentialDialog.

• User:Firefishy got bogged down in server administration and pondering future hardware/caching stuff but also
  • Made a very slight tweak to the logo on the homepage. Anyone spot the difference??
  • Links from signup terms to translations + summary.
  • Minor OSM.org html fixes.
  • Enabled a new wiki skin on http://www.osmfoundation.org designed by Harry Wood (communications working group)

• Harry Wood was feeling fried after his OpenTech presentation.
  • Wrote a blog post to publish slides from his OpenTech presentation (featuring new diagram of OSM developer ecosystem)
  • Fiddled with http://www.osmfoundation.org menu navigation so that blog and wiki showed the same thing. Further work needed on arranging content there (communications working group)

Other stuff besides. Edit the page if we're missing stuff

Hack Weekend?

An OpenStreetMap "hack weekend" is a meet-up where we bring along laptops to an office space and spend the weekend doing some technical work to improve OpenStreetMap. This may be development of the "core" components, the editors, or any other side projects and pet projects we fancy hacking on. OpenStreetMap has development tasks sprouting from it in all directions. There's work to do in almost any programming language, as well as tasks like documentation, and even some non-technical graphics design and translation tasks.

We mostly take a fairly unstructured free-form format. People turn up and start beavering away on something, or they turn up and see what they can help with.

Sign up list

List of people who may have been there. edit the page to update this

• Matt
• TomH
• Serge
• Harry Wood Sunday
• Shaun
• Firefishy
• Andy
• Alex
• Amm
• Jon
• Martin from CycleStreets (Saturday pm plus all Sunday)
• Kevin Sunday
• Richard Saturday probably
• steve8 hoping to make one day but may just be for the social!
• georgio8 ditto

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