Wrap-up
Thanks to everyone who came, especially our project leads and our organization representatives! This Land came by Saturday morning and did a Live stream from the Hackathon.
Here’s a summary of what each project team did in 24 hours:
The Food Bank team leveraged the cloud based services of Qrimp.com to develop a no-code solution for an online volunteer application system. The application system allows for the Food Bank to move from manual data entry of upwards of 1000 new applicants a month to an online solution that automates most of the process as well as maintaining a digital history of volunteer applicants and providing an export facility for dumping the data into Excel for further use by in-house Food Bank systems.
Additionally, the Food Bank was able to publish their internal SharePoint calendar to the Qrimp.com calendaring system through a data dump from SharePoint to Qrimp.com. This alleviates the problem of volunteers having to call in and check availability.
The solution will save the Food Bank several hours per day by eliminating much of the tedious manual data entry of volunteer applications and phone support of volunteer slot availability.
The Tulsa City-County Library team started a mobile phone app to share the Library’s digital collection in an interesting and fun way. The team is geo-tagging many of the Beryl Ford Collection photos so to be presented in the mobile app when the user is at or near the sight the photo was taken.
The app showcases their digital collection and illustrates how the library is evolving to provide information to an increasingly digital world. It lets users explore this wonderful historic photography collection in a context sensitive and interactive way like never before.
The app will include a “Then and Now” feature – a user takes a picture of a location today to send a digital postcard via email, text, Facebook or Twitter along with an historic photo of the same site from the Beryl Ford Collection.
The team started two versions of the app – one in Obj-C for the iPhone and one in Java for Android. The backend for photo metadata is currently being hosted on the Qrimp.com platform.
Special thanks to Tulsa City-County Library research librarians Jennifer Greb and Sheri Perkins for collaborating with us on this awesome project.
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The Fab Lab Tulsa team created Google Calendars for all of the Fab Lab equipment, added the calendars to the Fab Lab website, and added forms to request equipment time.
URL: http://www.fablabtulsa.com/the-lab/equipment
Code: https://github.com/tulsawebdevs/wp-tulsa-fab-lab-theme
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We also had a bonus project for Fab Lab Tulsa. An ad-hoc team formed to create a contest engine so Fab Lab can conduct engineering and design fabrication contests.
Code: https://github.com/tulsawebdevs/contest-engine
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One INCOG team built a twilio-powered dial-in application.
URL: http://incog-mobility.tulsawebdevs.org
Code: https://github.com/tulsawebdevs/incog-mobility
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The Tulsa Road Information Feed (TRIF) team gathered publicly available information from three sources into a single place to get traffic data.
We used Python and Ruby to gather this data into a single database, used the Google Maps API to determine the map location, and then used the Django web framework to distribute the data as an Atom and a JSON feed. We also used the JSON feed in combination with Google Maps to display the events on a map.
While the map is the most visually impressive part of the project, the feeds are the more important component. They allow other developers to build on top of this data in various ways, such as providing customized interfaces for mobile devices, mining the data for statistics, or combining the data with other data sources. The feeds are the foundation for future awesome projects that our small team can’t do on our own. As we improve the data, through better algorithms and cooperation with government, all the projects will benefit.
URL: http://trif.tulsawebdevs.org
Code: https://github.com/tulsawebdevs/tulsa-road-issues-feed
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Tulsa Tech Fest!
If you’re at Tulsa Tech Fest and you want to come to Hackathon, come over to Fab Lab right after Tech Fest for free beer and we’ll talk about the projects and check out the Fab Lab. If you’re sure you’ll stick around, please register so we know how many meals to buy. We recommend that you park along 7th or 8th Street just west of Lewis. Fab Lab Tulsa does not permit parking on the lab grounds. Drop off and pick up only. Here’s the 3-mile, 10-minute trip from OSU-Tulsa to Fab Lab:
Tulsa rhoks!
Quick update: All projects have lead developers. We’re confirming all our venues and logistics and updating the Agenda. We’re ordering and preparing swag, too – Stickers and shirts for all!
We have a venue – Fab Lab Tulsa!
Tulsa Hackathon will be at Fab Lab Tulsa! (photos) Hacking will officially begin at 7pm Friday night and Fab Lab will stay open overnight for anyone who wants to pull an all-nighter. Check the Agenda for more info.
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We (Tulsa Web Devs) are preparing a Hackathon event for October 7-8 immediately following Tulsa Tech Fest. We are still working on the agenda, and we are looking for sponsors, projects, and volunteers. Stay tuned for updates.
