This will be a weekly event happening on Wednesdays in which all the developers who are interested in designing and building happs get together and team up to develop projects in small sprints (2-3 weeks).
This hackalong will be maintained by the @community_organizers, but we intend for it to be self-organized. You can make proposals about the content and format for the sessions by posting here or bringing them to the hackalong. For starters, we can do break-out rooms with different ideas/project that devs bring to the table.
The first session will be happening on Wednesday 1st of April. If you are interested in attending, it would be very helpful if you could fill out this form. This way weāll know how many will be attending and which timezone fits best for everyone (or if we are doing two sessions every Wednesday to cover for everyone).
We think itās a great opportunity to connect, build on each otherās ideas, and learn by doing. Whether you are a newcomer who wants to learn how to develop happs, or you are already running a project, you can join the meeting and share your needs, time and abilities with the community. We will be providing support in case anyone needs it.
We hope that with the COVID situation causing lots of hackathons to be postponing, this can be an opportunity not to lose momentum, and to bring closer the developer community around the globe. And this way we can achieve our goal of having 100 happs running on holochain by the end of 2020!
I think @devcamp6 participants will be very interested in joining this as well.
Yes sure! We will record all the sessions. If there are team specific sessions to coordinate development though, it will be up to them to record. Maybe after the main sessions we can share which projects are being develop so anyone can join them as well?
Nice! An honour to have those linguistics lifted, just like I did from your homework Personally though Iād label this a hAppalong!
A) because its a more hAppy name
B) because hackalongs are generally as agnostic as possible - a meta membrane/meme that could fully embrace hAppalongs (amongst other viable chromosomes) of course though!
@nphias actually wanted a more Holochain specific flavour for the Holonaughts so created this repo. My understanding is that he intends to release some Holochain work (identity stuff) in there I believeā¦ but call it in progress still
If people want to make use of the infrastructure and channels weāve been setting up at Hackalong.io - it would be an honour to have people participate and take stewardship Projects category might be a good spot? There are a few people from various ecosystems starting to do that now which is good, @raphisee is one of the admins from round these parts so anyone that wants to help out please feel free to ping him for extended capabilities! (if he doesnāt respond, you can ping me - Iām just trying to remove myself as a loud voice and bottleneck). This might be a nice holo specific Tele group to reuse for bouncing ideas or pinging eachother?
Re: Virtual breakout rooms we could use interspace.chat or spin up a custom instance/subdomain for this initiative? It was a Hackalong.io project by @letourpowerscombine and @geleeroyal, who then helped organise āInterconā on it to great success! Its basically jit.si with a preconfigured room selectorā¦ few extra bits like loft radio embeds and discourseā¦
Re: Covid - there are a number of great use cases that Holochain could really help with as well! Safepaths from MIT is a good example but it needs a larger ecosystem to see āviral uptakeā IMO; unfortunately if the solutions are not built bottom up and distributed, we will see top down centralised solutions being mandated. Iād really like to see us avoid such a dystopian scenario!
Anyway, looking forward to getting more involved in this awesome initiative! :))) Theres probably many things to be done so Iāll start by pinging Kay to get an interspace set up going for us
Sounds great. Our last Meetup here in Melbourne was February and I do need to get the community back to being engaged. Do you have a time of day you were planning? If evening in Europe could be only have appeal to insomniacs here
Which is fine, since smaller groups might be able to talk and coordinate better in the session itself. Weāll try to coordinate teams and projects behind the scenes.
The goal for this first session is to know and connect with other devs, share ideas and projects that we have in mind or are already coding and hopefully form a team to commit to delivering something, we are going to do a show and tell session on the 15th of April.
We think itās better to finish small things than to commit to something huge, but this is up to everyone as well. Next week weāll have a āsprint check-inā kind of thing, but in the meantime we encourage teams to meet in their own time to design and code.
Weāll record the sessions and keep it open, so that other people can come and join any other session if they want to.
Letās see how this goes, and if something has to change for future sessions we can always shake things up.
Let me know if we can make some changes to improve things for you!
Awesome. I plan to join this Wednesday evening! I added it to my calendar and hope to see you there. Will there be a zoom link shared in advance and if so where will I find it? my best email is 3Xethical@protonmail.com Please email the link up info.
Iām not ready to start developing just yet, so there may not be a lot of value for me in joining. Iām still trying to find partners to work with and get some buy-in for one of these proposals/ideas, along with a part-time job:
Iām looking forward to this hackalong, Iām keen to help and learn on projects, weāve been working on a multisignature engine in the office, with a react and graphql backend.
It will be a pretty good boiler plate for people who know react and graphql connected to a holochain/dna/zome backend.
On the hackathon I want to fully understand these connections myself and talk through it with others and then extend this project into any direction people want to take it.
Thanks @ThomasMiller! Just making sure to avoid confusion about timezones, @ScutterJr@sevenshadow@Blooniverse@feamcor , the meeting is 6pm CEST, so in 4h 30 mins. The google calendar event is right, Iāve updated the posts from CET to CEST.
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An honour to have those linguistics lifted, just like I did from your homework 
Personally though Iād label this a hAppalong!
