Dear all, I am not much familiar with this sort of events but I got chance to see the last Hackathon organized at KU few months ago.
I have visited numerous stall and project's room there and were almost the imitation of projects laying around internet. This makes the participants lack to realize the problems associated with and to address the solution to it. I would like to suggest, this type of activity should focus on the fundamental problems in a particular domain of computation (*computation is the problem solving by algorithmic means*). For example, someone have developed a project titled "*what you see*" which allows user to post every events, memory in online during Hackathon at KU. It was hosted in a server and was some sort of phpcode which allows you to upload texts, images, videos etc. The fundamental problem I found is, how they transform the term "*you see*" to that PHP code, are they addressing "*you see*" properly ?? Another fundamental problem, the data organization for every user. They do not see any problem on it. Consider there were 1000 users (very tiny in an online application), and each user generates 10 to 20 contents(data) each day. How does the software organizes the data for individual users?? Because, some data are useful for particular users only. And so on ... So, how does the participants identify the problem during Hackathon ??? and what could be the evaluation criteria? Which matters significantly to the success of the event. Thank you very much. Santa On Wed, May 28, 2014 at 8:14 AM, Bal Krishna Bal <[email protected]>wrote: > Yes, a training session covering general tips on do's and don'ts within > the hackathon program would be useful. I can share some of the training > materials based on prior experiences. > Regards, > Bal Krishna > On May 28, 2014 7:45 AM, "Saroj Dhakal" <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I support Avash it'd better to have a training before going but what if >> if we have a session in the hackathon itself ? Most of the geek community >> still think that Localization is trivial, localization is not challenging >> task and lack of language aptitude is another factor . >> >> Those who are working in localization are working in some disjoint groups >> . I think this kind of hackathon is certainly going to help keep us >> together . >> >> Given that the hackathon will be in June in some weekend I can contribute >> some of the time , helping organize it. >> >> Thanks, >> Saroj >> >> >> On Wed, May 28, 2014 at 7:05 AM, Avash Mulmi <[email protected]>wrote: >> >>> Prabin dai, >>> >>> The idea is good. But before that we need to ensure that the >>> participants of the Localization Sprint know what they are doing. >>> Many people are interested in localization, but the problem I saw was >>> they had problem with Nepali typing. >>> And those good with Nepali typing had problem with the strings. >>> During the localization there comes some strings which need not be >>> translated, they are being translated as well. >>> Also, I have seen the problem of doing word to word translation instead >>> of translating contextually. >>> >>> So, before organizing a localization sprint itself, lets organize a half >>> day training on the area maybe? I can work for/from the localization of >>> Firefox, (ideas, formats etc.) And help with other general stuffs >>> for/during the event as long as I don't have exams. >>> >>> Regards >>> >>> -- >>> -- >>> FOSS Nepal mailing list: [email protected] >>> http://groups.google.com/group/foss-nepal >>> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] >>> >>> Mailing List Guidelines: >>> http://wiki.fossnepal.org/index.php?title=Mailing_List_Guidelines >>> Community website: http://www.fossnepal.org/ >>> >>> --- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>> Groups "FOSS Nepal" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>> an email to [email protected]. >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >>> >> >> -- >> -- >> FOSS Nepal mailing list: [email protected] >> http://groups.google.com/group/foss-nepal >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] >> >> Mailing List Guidelines: >> http://wiki.fossnepal.org/index.php?title=Mailing_List_Guidelines >> Community website: http://www.fossnepal.org/ >> >> --- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "FOSS Nepal" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > -- > -- > FOSS Nepal mailing list: [email protected] > http://groups.google.com/group/foss-nepal > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > > Mailing List Guidelines: > http://wiki.fossnepal.org/index.php?title=Mailing_List_Guidelines > Community website: http://www.fossnepal.org/ > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "FOSS Nepal" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- Santa B. 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