So we had our first Wave Hackathon at the CDTM here in Munich last weekend.
CDTM is an Institute which is part of the TUM, the Technic University Munich.
(You can find the Website for this at http://cdtm.de)
We had around 28 people registered, 5 cancellations and 23 showing up on site,
so basically we had a zero percent of NoShow, which is really a good rate.
But ok, let's get this review started:
We started at 10:30 am with a brief free hand introduction of Wave, Embed API, Robots
and Gadgets. It was free hand because i totally had lost track of time the last weeks
due to my Job Termination. But i think i did quite a good job anyway and some of the
more expirienced Developers in the audience helped me out.
Then we went on to the Brainstorming, where everyone told the crowd about their idea
for a Gadget or a Robot and then after that, they teamed up to Groups so we could start
the Hacking. This was the time when i left with some friends to get some supplies.
When we returned with our approx. 20 Liters of Coke and several Packages of Chips & Gummi Bears
the Rest of the Crowd was allready hacking hard at their choosen Projects.
I left at 4 pm to get back to my family but as i heard, some of the guys hacked until 9pm.
The next day we only had seven Developers, which made Pizzaordering a bit easier, but we created a Pricecalculator for it anyway. So we nerded our way trough some Bugfixing and Programming and then everyone presented their projects.
We have Dokuwave, a Bot that synchronyzes a Wave to a Dokuwiki Instance http://github.com/evilhackerdude/dokuwave
Bloodwine, a PollGadget http://code.google.com/p/bloodwine
ToDo Robot/Gadget http://code.google.com/p/todo-robot/
So it's over now and next we will have an Android Hackathon and a more general Hackathon on a regular Basis.
A big Thank you to our Sponsors, the Interface AG for Food and Beverages, O'Reilly and OpenSourcePress for the Books and of Course the CDTM for hosting the Hackathon.
And a VERY special Thank you to Pamela Fox who helped us out with seven Wave Sandbox Invites at 10 o'Clock in the EVENING at Sydney Timezone on the Weekend. And who answered some additional Questions on Sunday then. Thank you Pam.
