convore.json/groups/startup-ottawa/any-interest-in-an-organized-weekend-hackathon/messages.json

[{"user_id": 1316, "stars": [], "topic_id": 34866, "date_created": 1305164413.8636191, "message": "but the single day event, more frequently might be more realistic --- interested to hear what others think definitely", "group_id": 9753, "id": 1017149}, {"user_id": 1316, "stars": [], "topic_id": 34866, "date_created": 1305163760.537076, "message": "unfortunately, we did a horrible job of getting the word out and were the only ones who actually participated --- took place at the Code Factory", "group_id": 9753, "id": 1017057}, {"user_id": 32801, "stars": [], "topic_id": 34866, "date_created": 1305164248.7108951, "message": "Already expressed my interest. Why not a single day event once a quarter. I usually need a day to recover.", "group_id": 9753, "id": 1017131}, {"user_id": 1316, "stars": [], "topic_id": 34866, "date_created": 1305163838.376544, "message": "we were thinking of organizing one again, only having it at Mercury Grove (need to double-check with Scott, but he seemed warm to the idea); and having it a bit more structured; but the idea still being about comraderie and building a prototype version of a product idea", "group_id": 9753, "id": 1017080}, {"user_id": 1316, "stars": [], "topic_id": 34866, "date_created": 1305163731.999012, "message": "A couple years ago, Brierwood organized a little weekend hackathon; similar to the one day HackOtt thing, except over the course of a weekend, and less about the competition aspect", "group_id": 9753, "id": 1017053}, {"user_id": 1316, "stars": [], "topic_id": 34866, "date_created": 1305164377.8811829, "message": "its really about how much can be realistically accomplished --- the weekend idea is much more difficult to manage in terms of finding time, but a lot more can be done; there would be a long leadup and give people plenty of time to get ready", "group_id": 9753, "id": 1017143}, {"user_id": 32925, "stars": [], "topic_id": 34866, "date_created": 1305204374.524174, "message": "And since I'm only in Ottawa on weekends, I'd be up for a Saturday event! (Two days would be too much for me, need to spend at least some of the weekend visiting with my wife)", "group_id": 9753, "id": 1024227}, {"user_id": 32925, "stars": [], "topic_id": 34866, "date_created": 1305204307.2751119, "message": "I've found single day, two-person team, hackathons to be the right mix. As long as you don't try to make a pretty looking product, it's not too hard to make something functional in a day", "group_id": 9753, "id": 1024221}, {"user_id": 32801, "stars": [], "topic_id": 34866, "date_created": 1305214229.0129321, "message": "RoR baby", "group_id": 9753, "id": 1025553}, {"user_id": 32810, "stars": [], "topic_id": 34866, "date_created": 1305208850.98524, "message": "I'm all in for this! I have to say I'm with @JonA, single day 2 hacker is a good mix. I also think that type of event could have a little something special in terms of presence on the web like, ( top of my head ) a bot that would post on twitter every time a team commits on github for the hackaton or something along those lines. In the end, I like the idea and I'm willing to participate!", "group_id": 9753, "id": 1024701}, {"user_id": 32801, "stars": [], "topic_id": 34866, "date_created": 1305208957.3477571, "message": "@phi1rene I love \"live walls\" of any type.", "group_id": 9753, "id": 1024708}, {"user_id": 32810, "stars": [], "topic_id": 34866, "date_created": 1305209187.2141819, "message": "@jevy yeah me too, I've always wondered if it could make a good idea ( maybe it already exists ), something like a plugin based web app that receives msg from facebook, twitter, whatever else through that plugin interface and then post them on a live wall... maybe it would be a good idea for a hackathon...", "group_id": 9753, "id": 1024736}, {"user_id": 32805, "stars": [], "topic_id": 34866, "date_created": 1305210296.150249, "message": "@phi1rene something like CIA https://www.ohloh.net/p/cia ?", "group_id": 9753, "id": 1024869}, {"user_id": 32805, "stars": [], "topic_id": 34866, "date_created": 1305210462.94695, "message": "Oh my bad, it looks like CIA is offline http://scanlime.org/2011/05/cia-vc-service-is-down-indefinitely/", "group_id": 9753, "id": 1024893}, {"user_id": 32805, "stars": [], "topic_id": 34866, "date_created": 1305210479.579633, "message": "The code is still around though", "group_id": 9753, "id": 1024897}, {"user_id": 32801, "stars": [], "topic_id": 34866, "date_created": 1305210498.637217, "message": "The update on that same blog post looks like it will be back!", "group_id": 9753, "id": 1024903}, {"user_id": 32810, "stars": [], "topic_id": 34866, "date_created": 1305210664.5949359, "message": "@allanfalloon yeah, I think you nailed it. Although, from the arch map it looks overkill for just a \"updates live wall\" I don't know. Definitively, worth a look. Thanks", "group_id": 9753, "id": 1024944}, {"user_id": 32810, "stars": [], "topic_id": 34866, "date_created": 1305210761.723268, "message": "sorry @alanfalloon, I'm about to suggest to the dev team of convore to add autocomplete for usernames", "group_id": 9753, "id": 1024961}, {"user_id": 32805, "stars": [], "topic_id": 34866, "date_created": 1305213677.058255, "message": "BTW, @phi1rene I have done a fair amount of git hook hacking, if you want any help with that end of it... :)", "group_id": 9753, "id": 1025458}, {"user_id": 32805, "stars": [], "topic_id": 34866, "date_created": 1305213211.1490729, "message": "@phi1rene I think you could whip up something in pretty short order, especially if you limit yourself to git and only one display method (twitter or web updates). I think the git hooks in CIA might be a good starting point though.", "group_id": 9753, "id": 1025394}, {"user_id": 32810, "stars": [], "topic_id": 34866, "date_created": 1305214121.8275299, "message": "@alanfalloon, thanks... That's great.. I'm gonna look into this over the week-end, gotta a few projects to end before starting on new stuff. I may take this opportunity to start on python/django or get back in RoR. First gonna have to settle on what I want this to do. I've also seen those: http://help.github.com/post-receive-hooks/ which would post on twitter for you automatically... So there's may be no need for such projects/tool.", "group_id": 9753, "id": 1025528}, {"user_id": 738, "stars": [], "topic_id": 34866, "date_created": 1305215069.2004941, "message": "weekend hackathon would be fun(also, the django-dash is coming up soon I think)", "group_id": 9753, "id": 1025707}, {"user_id": 32942, "stars": [], "topic_id": 34866, "date_created": 1305215617.0106239, "message": "I'm with @phi1rene and @JonA on a single day event.", "group_id": 9753, "id": 1025815}, {"user_id": 32925, "stars": [], "topic_id": 34866, "date_created": 1305216258.93279, "message": "It's also a smaller time commitment, so that should hopefully result in a bigger turnout", "group_id": 9753, "id": 1025891}, {"user_id": 32801, "stars": [], "topic_id": 34866, "date_created": 1305227357.4308901, "message": "So it seems people are interested.", "group_id": 9753, "id": 1028262}, {"user_id": 32801, "stars": [], "topic_id": 34866, "date_created": 1305227393.9777501, "message": "Would it be theme based of some sort?  Catering to a particular domain?  Using particular APIs (that's been done!)?  Free-for all?", "group_id": 9753, "id": 1028269}, {"user_id": 1316, "stars": [], "topic_id": 34866, "date_created": 1305251569.0974519, "message": "Shawn had some ideas there; but I cannot recall the details", "group_id": 9753, "id": 1032698}, {"user_id": 1316, "stars": [], "topic_id": 34866, "date_created": 1305251548.3532369, "message": "we wanted to create some sort of theme, while leaving it very open --- basically a theme meant to inspire rather than restrict", "group_id": 9753, "id": 1032694}, {"user_id": 1316, "stars": [], "topic_id": 34866, "date_created": 1305251612.5438039, "message": "eg. the theme is \"green\" or \"freedom\" :)", "group_id": 9753, "id": 1032712}, {"user_id": 1316, "stars": [], "topic_id": 34866, "date_created": 1305251683.592663, "message": "I saw Ed tonight and of course, he offered up Shopify --- but I think Mercury Grove has a different atmosphere which would be nice to try out; as long as the internet actually functions to some degree", "group_id": 9753, "id": 1032731}, {"user_id": 32801, "stars": [], "topic_id": 34866, "date_created": 1305287715.7575891, "message": "going with the idea Phil had earlier for a live wall, maybe the theme could be \"visualization\"?", "group_id": 9753, "id": 1039884}, {"user_id": 32801, "stars": [], "topic_id": 34866, "date_created": 1305287617.812526, "message": "right. Shopify is awesome but moving around might bring awareness to other companies. the internet would have to be working better for sure.", "group_id": 9753, "id": 1039879}, {"user_id": 1316, "stars": [], "topic_id": 34866, "date_created": 1305293966.7545099, "message": "yeah; I like the idea of theme --- I just don't want to restrict it too much; i.e. I want it to be something that can be easily fit into pretty much every topic; my thought (and others can disagree) is that this would be an opportunity to perhaps get an initial version of an idea/product that you've been thinking about for a while, but could never execute on due to time constraints", "group_id": 9753, "id": 1041245}, {"user_id": 1316, "stars": [], "topic_id": 34866, "date_created": 1305293997.3355069, "message": "\"visualization\" could fit that bill if its framed properly", "group_id": 9753, "id": 1041251}, {"user_id": 32810, "stars": [], "topic_id": 34866, "date_created": 1305299734.053436, "message": "@rvanmelle, @jevy I could see themes like \"automation\" or \"every day tool\" or \"third-party widget\" ( I'm not sure of the name here, but those widget you can install on a page and they dl code and run it on your page like the twitter widget for ex )...", "group_id": 9753, "id": 1042790}, {"user_id": 32942, "stars": [], "topic_id": 34866, "date_created": 1305314479.8048129, "message": "More potential themes: dealing with data (\"big data\", natural language processing, basic data mining)", "group_id": 9753, "id": 1046029}, {"user_id": 32942, "stars": [], "topic_id": 34866, "date_created": 1305314532.8237081, "message": "I would be interested in a project using Python's NLTK (Natural Language Toolkit)", "group_id": 9753, "id": 1046044}, {"user_id": 32801, "stars": [], "topic_id": 34866, "date_created": 1305316598.8888569, "message": "I'd love to learn when the apps present some of the framework stuff they really leverage, I want to learn more from the Django world (speaking as a Rails guy)", "group_id": 9753, "id": 1046412}, {"user_id": 32801, "stars": [], "topic_id": 34866, "date_created": 1305316562.7549479, "message": "Would it be possible to have some friendly Rails vs Django comp?", "group_id": 9753, "id": 1046406}, {"user_id": 32802, "stars": [], "topic_id": 34866, "date_created": 1305319597.444916, "message": "I'm actually getting into Django these days (never been much of a web guy).  I really like Python, so that justifies my choice.  As I get more up to speed, I'd be interested in learning about the Rails way of doing things.", "group_id": 9753, "id": 1047085}, {"user_id": 1316, "stars": [], "topic_id": 34866, "date_created": 1305692200.6209481, "message": "all input has been processed and we will eventually move on this :)  as for Rails vs Django --- I've done both; I think Rails will win over a short period of time; but Django will rule over a longer time frame", "group_id": 9753, "id": 1092519}, {"user_id": 33725, "stars": [], "topic_id": 34866, "date_created": 1305834053.587714, "message": "@jevy Django has in my opinion has easier to understand form validation and each application is separate. Where as Rails has better TDD, migrations, scaffold/generators, coffeescript and jquery support built in. Also Rails has full scripting in their templates although it can be debated as to whether this is a better feature. Also I'd mention that each one has plugins/apps to add features the other has.", "group_id": 9753, "id": 1115328}]