Monday, October 25, 2010

H4ckb33r

Hey, it's been a while... This post isn't actually related with KDE, but I found interesting to share the experience of the first sprint-like event that me and some FOSS-enthusiast fellows organized. We called it the H4ckb33r. Pretty obvious name, right? At least for code and beer lovers like us...

The only KDE running at the place :-((

andredieb sleeping with his beloved N900

Unfortunately, we wasted some time trying to share a 3G internet connection. Besides, the rain in João Pessoa didn't help so much to make the work start right on time. We had all things set up by 1 p.m. It's a bit late for a one day-only event.

Well, the main goal was to get started with Git development and develop something using it. To warm up, we improved our IRC bot, making it plugin-oriented and adding some dumb funcionalities. After that, we had lunch (chicken FTW) and some basketball (yeah, geeks can do sports, too ;-).

daniloqueiroz, thiagoss, vitoravelino

diofeher, me, vitoravelino

So, once the repository was ready we needed something to develop (we really should thought about this earlier) and after a loooong time discussing was decided we could have a web-based tool to help organizing the next h4ckb33r's. This tool would keep a ranking of candidate projects to work into, a "who bring what" system, etc. Due time, we couldn't get out of there with a working version, sadly. I believe soon we will have it running over Google App Engine.

Besides the rain and logistical problems, we had a great time. Hope to see more people (and more code) in the next editions. :-D

To the gran finale, check out all the soccer skills of participants:


I'd like to thank daniloqueiroz for hosting all these geeks at his home and also all participants. Looking forward to the next H4ckb33r! You can see us at #ufcg @ Freenode.

Cheers.

P.S.: Soon I'll be posting some news about Solid UPnP backend...