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wellington SHDH
Hello Wellington Hackers!It would be a great shame if the many half-started pet projects of this city failed to get the love they deserved because of real priorities. To that end, I think a new Super Happy Dev House is in order! We'll meet at the usual spot, Southern Cross, on Sunday 7 March at around noon. Bring along your own ideas, or just come to see what others have started.
Hope to see you all there!
Cheers, Evan
Digital NZ Hackfest
The DigitalNZ API HackFest is making its way to Auckland. Telecom are kindly hosting this event for us.- 10am-5pm, Saturday 7 November 2009
- Telecom, Hereford St, Auckland
- http://digitalnz.org
OLPC XO 1.5 hackfest
We have the new XO 1.5 machines in NZ now and I am hoping to give all the volunteers here a chance to look and play with them. Exciting!Auckland Saturday 24th October 2009 - 11:00 am @ The Windsor Castle 144 Parnell Road, Parnell - they have internet, Tabitha will bring one of the XO 1.5 machines.
Hack fests in Wellington
There are many hackfests in Wellington, regular, impromptu, and one off events.
Shiny new prototype OLPC hackfest
The XO 1.5 laptops, from One Laptop Per Child have cleared customs -- so there's a hackfest this saturday to put the hardware, and the OS through their paces - and have yummy brunch and coffee.- 24th October
- 10am until we get sleepy
- at the Southern Cross http://thecross.co.nz
Software Freedom Day 2009
2009-09-20 - Wellington Town Hall.http://softwarefreedomday.org.nz/
Software Freedom Day (SFD) is a worldwide celebration of Free and Open Source Software (FOSS). The principles behind FOSS are underpinned by the users' freedom to run, copy, distribute, study, change and improve the software.
The Software Freedom Day hackfest is hosted by SuperHappyDevHouse, One Laptop Per Child, and DigitalNZ - a chance to put the DigitalNZ APIs into action! Come hang out all day on our sofas, drink large amounts of coffee and work on your favourite piece of free and open source software. You can also learn about the work of the amazing team from One Laptop Per Child who will be showcasing their machines, and participate by helping to test them.
You need to register for this event at http://softwarefreedomday.org.nz/
Maker Fest
Wellington has a growing community of makers who share a lot of the same principles as FOSS, using open source technology to create craft, sharing tools and skills when working on solutions to technical projects.
We will have a room set aside at Software Freedom DAy for makers, so come along and showcase your creations, whether they are gadgets or open source crafts, or work on something you've been dreaming up for months. Attendees will be expected to supply their own materials and tools.
You need to register for this event at http://softwarefreedomday.org.nz/
OLPC Weekly TestFest
meets every Saturday at the Southern Cross
- The TestFest http://laptop.org.nz
- The Venue http://thecross.co.nz
The Wellington Testers is a group that gets together each Saturday mid-morning at a cafe (currently Southern Cross) to drink coffee and test-drive the latest version of the software for the XO.
We keep notes of the things we try, of the things that work well, and of the bugs we find. We post the notes to the development list, including all the things that did work (this makes programmers happy, after all, most of them are volunteers). For the bugs, we try our best to find steps to reproduce, and diagnose them.
Who are we? Curious kids of various ages - some of us are involved in education, others in technology.
Come join us
To hear about our events, subscribe: http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/olpc-nz
To join in the testing action, you can find us in New Zealand's capital, Wellington, testing at Southern Cross, 35 Abel Smith Street on Saturdays from 10.30am/11.00am until our fingers don't work anymore. For more details contact tabitha.roder@gmail.com
Sahana: Arrive, Brunch, Code
The New Zealand Sahana Cluster is having a technical overview of the code.Sahana is an open source Disaster Management System (think earthquakes, tsunamis) and Human Rights Case Management System
The team will be putting Sahana through its paces and submitting bug reports upstream to the core developent team, in preparation for the 1.0 release!
- learn how to install the system on your machine
- learn about the great online translation tools
- test the end-user functionality
- sign up to the developer mailinglists, and
- have a blast getting to know some of the New Zealand-based personalities.
- Date: Saturday, 01 August 2009
- Time: 10:00 - 13:00
- Location: Southern Cross - Hopefully in the garden if it's warm
- Street: 35 Able Smith Street
- More details on facebook: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=220276240206&ref=mf
- Info on Sahana http://talksahana.com/
Digital NZ Hacktest
On Saturday the 20th of June, Digital NZ ran a small DigitalNZ HackTest, a bit of a test-run before they start with HackFests. 
Super Happy Dev House March
Super Happy Dev House Aotearoa has invited SilverStripe to hold a hackfest themed around their SilverStripe open source CMS and MVC framework
Sunday 1st March 2009, from 1pm until we get sleepy. Southern Cross http://thecross.co.nz
SilverStripers will share how to work with, and contribute to the software.
You can bring your own todo list, closedsource or opensource - or turn up and find someone to collaborate with. Spend your Sunday afternoon with fellow hackers writing code, submitting patches and testing builds.
Be prepared to buy your own lunch, coffee, and wifi traffic (day passes are $10, and clever geeks will work out how to make a single day pass go a long way).
Feel free to put your name on March 2009 Projects page.
what
SuperHappyDevHouse Aotearoa is a monthly hackathon, combining serious and not-so-serious productivity with a fun and exciting party atmosphere.
The whole thing is about rapid development, ad-hoc collaboration and cross pollination. Hardcore coders, l33t hax0r, passionate designers, and other types that enjoy software and technology development are welcome. If this sounds like fun to you, then you're one of us.
So, join us! Order some a brunch and coffee, dhcp into wifi and tag your commits with SHDH. Meet fellow geeks, scheme and come up with world changing creations, while consuming beer, milkshakes, cookies.
You will need to bring your own laptop.
mini happy dev house
A mini happy is the same as a super happy, but without the bar tab. Be prepared to buy your own brunch/lunch, drinks, and probably wifi access (24 hour tokens are $10 from cafenet).
registering
If you don't have an account, you can create one here: http://shdh.org.nz/user/register
editing
This site all wiki wiki waaa-ed, so you're encouraged to contribute - especially to the page listing what people want to work on at the next event.
This serves 3 purposes,
- It might help you focus and assess what you got out of the dev house party
- You can find collaborators
- We can show to potential sponsors (aka beer/coffee/food) to say "look what awesome things these hackers did"..
SuperHappyDevHouse Aotearoa is inspired by the original monthly hackathon event in the US (http://superhappydevhouse.org).
