hackathon in september

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#1

Howdy,
Am coming in september for a 2 week visit, would like do something
with all of you guys,
so I was thinking we could do a hackathon and work on something.

ideas :
1. collecting information on schools in kosovo and putting them on
openstreetmap, wikipedia, wikidata and mediawiki. Putting contact
information in there like facebook pages, emails of staff etc.

3. collecting information on cool places to visit and putting them in
wikivoyage.

4. creating a webapp in python or golang for getting people in the
land of facebooks or iphones into our flossk world

5. anything you can think of that is cool, make a suggestion.

#2

Which two weeks?

I personally would like to learn more about how TTYs work. Originally
this was for a particular software (https://thomaslevine.com/scm/tsh),
but I managed to use Python's pty.spawn and thus avoid really
understanding PTYs.

I could also use help with an sndio device that I am writing (for R).
I have never really done anything in C or related to audio servers.
A different sound server would be okay. This proposal is concrete enough
for a hackathon; I can give very detailed specifications.

#3

first two weeks of september. right now I am learning haskell and loving it.

#4

but to be clear, I have lots of things that would interest me, but the
hackathon should be something that benefits the people there or would
be accessible to them, advanced topics might not be useful. so lets
see what others say.

#5

Oh, that reminds me, I have been meaning to set up a Tor bridge on
NetBSD or FreeBSD to address the present GNU/Linux monoculture in the
Tor network,
https://torbsd.github.io/
https://torbsd.github.io/oostats/bridges-os-count.txt

and I have been stifled partly by the lack of practically functional
monitors at the hackerspace.

This gives me three project ideas.

* disassemble the big TV and see if we can get it working again
* set up the Tor bridges on dedicated computers
* set up Tor on everyone's computer (even if not *BSD)

We have a few spare single-board computers, mostly Raspberry Pi brand,
so we could in fact set up multiple Tor bridges and install them in
different buildings.

#6

ok, so how about a computer donation drive, or fundraiser? We can ask
for hardware donations. we have a nice yard, we can do stuff there
like geeky games and other things for kids/people. A festival. Live
music etc. There is a whole lower level of the hackerspace that is a
mess. It seems that we need more people and resources badly to finish
this place up.

#7

something like a mini makerfaire http://makerfaire.com/ where we
change entry fee