Toronto Hack Weekend March 2012
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Come along to the hack weekend on 16-18 March 2012 in Toronto. If it's anything like the events in London, it'll be a smorgasbord of hard-core development, tutorials and social interaction!
Results
Commits
Participants, please add your tasks and commits for posterity.
Tristen
I attended Saturday and worked on some visual aspects of openstreetmap.org. Specifically:
- Provide default action text when change set and GPS traces are empty
- Making the disabled state of the primary menu items more disabled
I have also outlined some additional changes and work I would like to work on from my fork: https://github.com/tristen/openstreetmap-website/issues
OSM.org patches
- Improve default text on user GPS traces and edits an pages when empty. [2]
- Several commits for license change branch, [3]
Other projects and tasks
- New mapper signups and first edits.
- Community development, peer coaching.
- Azimuthal Equidistant projection code.
- Improve mathematics used in user statistics.
- New local installation of Tile Mill
Attendee reports
- Steve Singer's blog, Scanning Pages
- Ryerson Professor - Claus Rinner's blog
- Ryerson Student - Michael Markieta's blog, Spatial Analysis
History
The Toronto Hack Weekend March 2012 is an event from the past. The original text is preserved below for reuse on future events.
Hack Weekend?
An OpenStreetMap "Hack Weekend" is a local event for 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. However we can also run more structured workshops if there is demand.
Audience
This event is part OSM social event, part technical workshop. The social events are open to the entire OpenStreetMap community.
Introductory Presentation
A presentation and Q&A panel have been added on Friday afternoon. The Introduction to OpenStreetMap presentation is suitable for all audiences from curious newcomers to press to those wondering why so many companies are moving to OpenStreetMap. The hour+ Question and Answer session, and panel of experts will address a wide range of topics. Attend this to learn more about OSM, and / or to be inspired to become an OpenStreetMap developer. 2pm - 4pm Friday, 16 March 2012 at Hack HQ map See below.
Social events
The Friday night Meet and Greet and the Saturday night dinner and Mappy Hour are open to the OpenStreetMap community at large. Mappers and users, App developers and curious newcomers, all are welcome to mix and mingle with the Hack Weekend attendees. We'll each have to pick up our own tab, of course.
Technical workshop
Saturday and Sunday at the Hack Weekend are set up for coding, compiling, theming and testing.
The goal is to allow more programmers and developers to feel comfortable contributing code, etc. to the core functions of OpenStreetMap. The Hack Weekend is intended for programmers, developers, documentation writers, designers, UI / UX experts, cartographers, and all those other skills that go into improving OpenStreetMap infrastructure.
Qualifications
"But, I don't contribute code to OpenStreetMap like those core developers. The Hack Weekend isn't for me ..."
It might be perfect for you. You don't contribute code to OSM yet, but do you want to? That's one of the long term goals. Allow you to get yourself comfortable enough to submit code.
A Hack Weekend is not the place to learn how to program, or to learn "what is a renderer?" A Hack Weekend is an ideal place to use your expertise with your favourite technical tools to make an improvement for the OpenStreetMap community.
You should:
- know which tools you want to use
- know how to use those tools
- know which problem(s) you want to solve
- know how your solution would fit in the OpenStreetMap world
- bring your programming environment with you
- be comfortable programming in a room with other programmers
If you have only a few of these items clear now, you should clarify more of them in the weeks leading up to the event. You might ask on the #osm irc irc.oftc.net if you want help with these questions.
Location
Hack HQ
Hack HQ map
The event is hosted by Ryerson University's Department of Geography, Master of Spatial Analysis (MSA) program, and the Student Association of Geographic Analysis (SAGA). We'll be in room POD-348 on the 3rd floor of the "Podium" building. SAGA is opening their lounge across the hallway as break-out space and for coffee (which is sponsored by the MSA on Saturday at 10am). The street address is 380 Victoria Street (at Gerrard Street East). However, on the weekend you may have to enter through the Library building at 350 Victoria Street (at Gould Street) and find your way to POD-348, which is an inside room closer to the "Jorgenson Hall" side of the Podium building.
Social events
Friday Meet & Greet Saturday Dinner and Mappy Hour will be held in Downtown Toronto. Exact location TBA. RSVP early to ensure a spot.
Accommodation
A variety of accommodations are available near the venue.
Local mappers are also willing to offer billeting. For billeting please email for information Rw 15:36, 22 February 2012 (UTC)
Schedule
It's a buffet-style event - come for the parts you want and leave the bits you don't.
- Friday 16th
- 2pm to 3pm: Introduction to OpenStreetMap (presentation by Richard Weait, with Q&A; at HackHQ)
- 3pm to 4pm: Panel on OSM development (roundtable discussion; at HackHQ)
- 7pm until closing: Pre-hackery Meet and Greet, at Social HQ.
- Saturday 17th
- 9am to 5pm: Coding and chatting at HackHQ.
- 6pm until closing: Dinner and Mappy Hour at Social HQ
- Sunday 18th
- 10am to 5pm: More coding, subdued conversation at HackHQ.
Ideas for themes / targets
Programmer / developer projects
- OSM Data Contributor statistics. - Richard
- Ice Roads and Timmies: A Distinctly Canadian Rendering Style
- A list of Top_Ten_Tasks for OSM developers
- Your projects / interests here
Tutorial / panel topics
- Hot, Fresh Data - Why you care. Why you'll be hooked.
- Introduction to the Rails Port
- The OSM Tool Stack for Beginners
- The OSM license
- Working with MapBox/Carto
- How (When, Why) to set up an OSM tile server
- Linked Open Data integration to OSM
- Working with historical data
- Toronto street trees project
- How to implement user interface functionality on top of OSM
- Your suggestion here ...
Who's coming?
If you plan on attending, put your name and OSM username here. Your early and accurate RSVP helps to control the cost of this event to the organizers!
| Name | Friday Panel / Q&A | Friday Meet&Greet | Saturday Hack | Saturday Dinner | Saturday Mappy Hour | Sunday Hack | Interests/What you might want to work on |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Richard Weait | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | user statistics, custom rendering. |
| Steve Singer | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | rails port,data analysis/statistics |
| Colin McGregor | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | ||
| AJ Ashton | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | Cartography (Mapnik, graphics), UI/UX (CSS, JS, graphics) |
| Tristen Brown | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | Design, JS, CSS, User interface |
| Michael Mather | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | |
| Matt Amos | no | late | yes | yes | yes | yes | |
| Serge Wroclawski | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | ||
| Rob Warren | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | no |
Old maps / historical layers, Custom POI files. |
| Claus Rinner | yes | no | maybe | no | no | no | OSM use in teaching and research at Ryerson |
| Joseph Lalonde | yes | no | no | no | no | no | |
| Jadah Folliott | yes | no | no | no | no | no | |
| Ian Darwin | maybe | yes | no | no | no | no | Add uploading to jpsTrack Android OSM tracker |
| Henk Hoff | no | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | |
| Ralph Janke | yes | yes | maybe | maybe | no | maybe | rails port, OpenLayers, UI/UX (CSS, JS, graphics) |
| Stewart Russell | no | yes | no | no | no | no | Comestibles |
| Max Silin | no | no | no | no | maybe | yes | |
| add your details here |