Ho dam, I can't be available this week-end (there is a djangocon in France where I organize a workshop), this is very very sad. Do you plan other hackathons session later?
Yohan, sad pythonista On 11/20/2012 04:57 PM, Ijon wrote: > Dear Sailor, > > we are working on a new concept to enter buoys, lighthouses and other > seasigns in openseamap. currently someone has to go there in a small > boat with a gps-receiver, capture the position and then enter it > manually. this is timeconsuming. > > We believe there is a better way. Every ship has a magnetic compass and > a crew. someone of the crew owns a smartphone. The Sailor captures 3-5 > Bearings from his current position to the buoy. The Smartphone records > the position and let the sailor enter the bearings, that he has captured > with a compass. From this data, the position of the buoy can be calculated. > > This way, the ship dont have to leave its course, the mapping can occur > while sailing by. Mapping can even occur from ships, that are way too > big for spontaneous coursechanges, like ferrys or cruiseliners. > > To develop this app, we are organizing a hackathon from the 23rd to the > 25th. Because we need buoys to test our app, we will be doing this > hackathon on a boat. The Boat is a 15m long Katamaran with lots of > bunks, showers, toilets, power and other comfortable stuff. We will > bring internet, network, food, drinks and everything else to make you > feel comfortable and productive. > > We will leave the harbour on the 23rd of November, at 1400 local Time > and we will make landfall on the 25th of November, after the release of > the App around afternoon. The Harbour is Marina Lanke in the North-West > of Berlin. > > Our mission is: "Board the ship with just a concept, leave it after > release, have lots of fun" > > We still have 4 free bunks and we are looking for developers who would > like to come with us. We are looking especially for people who can > develop in python (for the backend), and also for one Person who is good > in Webdesign/Interface design. > > The whole event is free of charge, it is sponsored by the Hackerfleet. > We are sponsoring this Event, because we want that Data. Not only for > us, but for every open mapping project. > > The Software that will be developed during the Hackathon (and everything > else, that the Hackerfleet does) is opensource. > > If you like to come with us, please contact us as soon as possible. > Please contact me via phone, or email if you have further questions. > If you know of a friend, who might be interested in coming with us, > please tell him. > > Cheers > ijon > > PS: Because of the short timeframe for this announcement, I made a > crosspost to de-talk, to berlin-talk, to openseamap and to > openseamap-developer. > I would like to as you to kindly excuse my behaviour, if you got this message > several times. > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Monitor your physical, virtual and cloud infrastructure from a single web console. Get in-depth insight into apps, servers, databases, vmware, SAP, cloud infrastructure, etc. Download 30-day Free Trial. Pricing starts from $795 for 25 servers or applications! http://p.sf.net/sfu/zoho_dev2dev_nov _______________________________________________ Openseamap-maps mailing list Openseamap-maps@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/openseamap-maps
