Hackathon.in
A no-frills geek meet, an effort from Better Labs, a tiny geeky company in Pune.
Pune Rails Hackathon: July 29-30, 2006!
Everyone please be at the venue by 10AM Saturday morning
Hackathon.in is a no-frills geek meet. Pune Rails Hackathon is the a Rails development weekend where passionate Ruby/Rails programmers can get together and build some cool web services and applications on Ruby/Rails, creating the early prototypes. The idea is really to foster a gathering of like minded Ruby & Rails ethusiasts (whether you are an expert or just a starter, it should not matter) to come together and build something cool. Since this is the first hackathon of this sort in Pune (everyone from all over India is very much welcome), we will have mentors who will suggest a range of small footprint web applications or web services that can be built within the 2 day period. Suggestions & ideas for web services and applications will be added to this wiki over the next few days so you can choose what you might be interested in. Ofcourse, you can build whatever you like. The venue (Better Labs office) will be open all day and night so you can plan your work accordingly. Please email any thoughts and ideas to vaibhav at betterlabs.net. Please see suggested applications below and add more. This event is FREE.
- People from outside Pune can participate as well. Stay tuned for a section on this in terms of logistics/plan etc.
- This is a simple event for programmers to come together and create alpha version of simple applications in Rails
- Amatuers as well as experts in Ruby/Rails are welcome
- This is not a competition but a collective effort to build interesting things with small 1-3 person teams
- Mentors will help you along the way
- There will be design help to help you with your HTML screens a bit
- You will learn from others and from post event discussions of the applications
About Better Labs
Someone recommeded that we add a small bit here about Better Labs, so everyone can have a perspective. We are a bootstrapped startup based in Pune, with a laser focus on developing a new generation of consumer web services and small footprint business web applications. We adore open source software and develop primarily using Ruby On Rails and LAMP. We obsess about user experience and keep our web services focused on specifc pain points - trying not to address too many problems with a single solution. Thats us in a nutshell. Here's some early web services that we have deployed so far:
dealplumber , dealplumber blog
indiagoes (upcoming update) . Password: barcamphyd
indiamarks
indiavents
Password to edit wiki is ihack. Please be responsible while editing and ensure the formating to keep it readable. Vaibhav, Satish & Dibya are primarily updating the agenda and so on.
Coordinators
- Vaibhav Domkundwar, vaibhav at betterlabs.net
- Satish Talim, satish.talim at gmail.com
- Dibya Prakash, prakashdibya at yahoo.com
- Pratik Naik, pratik at betterlabs.net
- Satish Mishra, satish at betterlabs.net
Venue & Date/Tme
Better Labs
14 Trade Field,
Opposite Sony World Showroon
Sanghavi Nagar, Aundh
Pune 411007
India
July 29-30, 2006
START: 9:30AM at the above venue, kickoff at 10:30AM
All day and night
Presentations will start Sunday afternoon
Suggested Prototype Applications
(These are just suggestions. You can create any application that you may want)
- iAlert: This is a simple Rails application where users can create an account and add alerts for themselves in a simple 1-screen format and an email alert is sent to them at the date and time. You can add a mobile alert as well, if time permit.
- iDo: This is a simple to-do application. There are hundreds of to-do applications but none that can be as simple as a Notepad (when used to track simple to -do tasks). This application can be as simple as notepad wherein a user can create an account, and start addding tasks on a single page and should be able to delete, edit and strike-through them. You can also add re-order functionality, if time permits.
- iDentity: This is like a simple online resume page where user should be able to create an account and create a resume page with photo, name, address, work experience, educational experience and bring in his feeds from flickr, blogs, news and so on.
- iRecipe: Create a open recipe sharing service. Users login and add a recipe and tag it. All recipes are shared amongst all users. Anyone can browse by tags or search to find a recipe. If you can add a rating to the recipes, that will be nice.
- iPoll: A basic poll creation app. Users can signup, login and create a poll and track results. Other users should be able to search polls and vote on the polls they are interested in.
- MovieTicker:A simple application which will show ticket availability on the basis of search parameters for a show in a movie theatre.
- eXam: An application to create Multiple-Choice exam. Other users should be able to appear for an exam. A high-score per exam should be maintained.
- RXE: An application that stores and displays Foreign Exchange Rates. Allows the administrator to edit these rates. Displays these to other users and allows them to calculate exchange amount from one currency into another.
- Ticketer An application that finds the lowest fare from Mumbai to Delhi from different airlines websites.
- Pune Help Desk(InfoTantra) A simple application where people will use as well as maintain information about pune city ..eg: bloodbank,famous shops, restaurants, etc.This will behave like wiki where in people are responsible for maintaining info.They can put queries also where in people can reply to his queries.People can search through the database and extract information,as mentioned above,someone wants to know bloodbanks in pune so he will put in query to the helpdesk,people will reply and this information will be available to all.Search(client web service)can be made category or location wise or if you are looking for specific things you can search by name.
- Fastudu: The fastest one page todo list
- Expensometer: Can be used for tracking day-to-day expenses;users can define their own expense categories and using simple reports they can view aggregated expenses for a category over a selected period of time. Simplicity is the essence!
Geeks who'll be there
Please add your name and company name here. Email and/or phone is optional. Spread the word to your geeky friends and colleagues who may be interested.
- Satish Mishra, Better Labs
- Pratik Naik, Better Labs
- Vaibhav Domkundwar, Better Labs
- Dibya Prakash, Reevik
- Satish Talim, PuneRuby
- Ashish Kulkarani, SAPforbusiness - Alas only in spirit
- Shantanu Oak
- Harish Ingale, Reevik
- Anil Wadghule, Reevik
- Vikrant Chaudhari, Reevik
- Amol Aher, Reevik
- Vaidehi, Reevik
- Akshay Surve, Learning to speak Ruboi!. Akshay's Blog, Mumbai
- Nilesh Avhad, Better Labs
- Surya Veerla, Better Labs
- Gaurav V Bagga
- Geetesh Kumar Jain
- Anup Narkhede
- Pradeep Sinha, Mumbai
- Swanand J Deodhar
- Jincy John
- Harish Kumar
- Viky patil, Better Labs
- Vishwanath Nayak K and Jatinder Singh, Pune
FAQ
Post your questions here.
Any entry fee or other charges to participate?
No, there is no entry fee or any other fee at all. You will just have to manage your own lunches and dinners :) Tea and coffee will be from Better Labs.
What kind of arrangements have been made?
We are still working towards it but essentially we will be working towards keeping a set number of computers ready for the participants to use. Those who have laptops are requested to bring that along. We will provide some free Rails hosting as well for the applications for the Hackathon.
Would some kind of books and reference material provided or be allowed to refer on the internet during the contest? (this is more like a necessity)
Yes, on both counts. We will have the Rails book as well as the Rails 1.1 PDF book available for everyone. All machines will be online so you will be able to research online.
What is the schedule and timming etc.? It would make it easier for people from outside pune to plan appropriately.
We will shoot for everyone to get together at the venue between 9:30-10AM and kick-off at 10:30AM.
Prizes
Please note that prizes are just a way for interested companies to motivate and inspire the hackathon participants :-)
SFBL and PuneRuby: Win Rs.15,000 - Rs.5,000 each for the 1st, 2nd and 3rd places. Winners need to be members of PuneRuby.
Ashish Kulkarni and Satish Talim
Better Labs: Win Rs.10,001 for the coolest Rails app
Vaibhav Domkundwar
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