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DINAcon 2023
The venue of our Hack:Org:X meeting
The Digital Sustainability Conference is a yearly event that has been taking place since 2017, mostly in Bern, Switzerland. DINAcon is organised by a small organising committee, together with students of the University of Applied Sciences Graubünden (Joint Degree with Bern University of Applied Sciences). The organisation of the event was made possible by CH Open and a number of generous sponsors & partners.
As the official and traditional after-event of DINAcon, the HACKnights are a look behind the scenes of the presented projects and initiatives, a good opportunity to get started as contributor. Welcoming people of all levels of technical skill, inspired by open hackdays and hackergartens, the HACKnights encourage DINAcon participants to post issues and hands-on tasks from projects presented at the conference.
"All relevant and reasonable proposals to start, improve or support open source projects are welcome: this is an open platform, add your challenges and let's dig in!"
The 2023 edition of the HACKnight was sponsored by Proxeus Association, and featured among other things translations of several presentations into English on request of DINAcon participants. You can find these, as well as the challenges, on the Dribdat site:
The DINAcon HACKnight is a way to learn about and contribute to Open Source projects in a hands-on way. This event is open to all, and caters to all levels of technical skill. Our focus will be on all projects nominated and showcased at DINAcon.ch, the Swiss digital sustainability conference - other open source/data/hardware projects are welcome. Committers and experts are on hand to guide you through to your first bug report or code commit!
All Challenges posted at hacknight.dinacon.ch are announced at the start. Visit the site to browse activities from previous years.
Download the official wallpaper, checkout the Issues list, and get HACKing! See this blog post for a recap of our first event.
Terms
The most important rule of the HACKnight event is:
For further guidelines of conduct, please refer to confcodeofconduct. As this is an open source event, we will encourage all teams to publish their work under open licenses in open repositories, such as but not restricted to GitHub. The organizers, sponsors, and event staff shall not claim or request any endorsement or special rights and privileges to any work you do at the event. All project documentation created or shared during the event for projects published as above will be republished and promoted under a Creative Commons 4.0 Attribution license.
Open Network Lab
Planning the next open hardware mini-hackathon in Bern
At the beginning of December, we are kindly invited by Glue Software Engineering AG, to plug in for an evening of tinkering and sharing at their offices in central Bern. Beginners welcome! The goal of the evening is to implement various small Internet of Things (IoT) projects and connect them using LoRaWAN on TTN (we will explain the buzzwords further down). Of course, pizza and drinks will not be neglected to sustain the human operators. We will start with an input session, get our hardware and form sub-teams.
More details can be found at https://md.coredump.ch/s/9WkGfU7mj
See also: intro to The Things Network https://hacknight.dinacon.ch/project/66
Realtime dashboard
Realtime dashboard for large screen during hackathon
At BaselHack 2023, we had the opportunity of live-testing a dashboard POC under real conditions - and collect feedback. I heard/saw some 😎 and 😮, but also '😒 you hit the IP rate limit for github and we can't push rn'.
The test run during a few hours during the 2-day hackathon was as follows: First I manually entered the teams into the CMS backend (~5 mins). This has potential to be integrated to dribdat or CMS solutions where the team info already is available. Then I ran the stack locally on my macbook and plugged it to the main screen for a few hours. It was at that moment where I noticed the 😎 and 😮, from the people who were not super focused on their projects and were curious what was being projected on the screen.
It gave me a sense of "wow, so much work in parallel", and I think it would also be one of the more interesting things to see for guests at a hackathon.
Then people complained about getting locked out of github, and unfortunately I had to shut it down.
* covers use case
* fully automatic
- polling
- hits some rate limit event if autorized by token
-- github only
- still ugly, lists instead of graphics/icons
? doesn't record anything, just 'broadcast'
See also:
https://hackorgx.dribdat.cc/project/4
Dribdat keeping the time at BaselHack - embedding the live dashboard, which was also shown on the big screen