Access Hackfest 2006 - Intro

Report - Intro

Dan Chudnov, Ross Singer

What Hackfest Is

• Solving problems or developing new ideas
• Sharing a temporary, non-competitive, non-work, no-pressure, no-string-attached, collaborative social, and educational environment
• Learning about contemporary issues in libraries and tech
• Learning from each other
• Having fun
  

Vitals

• 76 signups, ~60 attendees
• Two locations: Carleton University and National Archives
• 25 project suggestions from library community
• Two decidedly distinct locations
• Lots of laptops
• HMS Presentr

People

Photos online:

• http://www.flickr.com/photos/moil/
• http://www.flickr.com/photos/calvinm/ 

HMS Presentr

• Started last year as a Hackfest project
• Restarted this year in ruby/rails.
  
• You're looking at it
• Insanely overengineered
• Will be released with free software license

Read the project suggestions online:

• http://hackfest.kicks-ass.net/