Ignite/Hackangooa2012
Hackanooga: Chattanooga Ignite Hack Days
Sept. 14-16, 2012
Register here
If you enjoy pushing the limits of the open web platform, we want you to join us September 14-16 in the Gig City of Chattanooga, Tennessee for a weekend of good food, good friends, and — most importantly — a unique opportunity to get your hands dirty on a citywide, 1 gigabit per second network.
This wiki is intended primarily as a place for team formation and idea sharing among teams planning to go to the Chattanooga Hack Days. If you're curious about the event, read more at the Mozilla Hacks blog: "Push the web further at Hackanooga"
For the calls themselves, please use this etherpad to take notes. It's a little easier for real-time communication and we will migrate it to the wiki after the meeting.
Apps and App Teams Forming for Hackanooga
We're interested in demonstrating innovation in education, workforce training, healthcare, and other public benefit areas. We'll be prototyping using client-side open web technologies (HTML5, WebGL, WebRTC) and a local private cloud. The types of applications we're talking about include:
- applications that require high bandwidth (100Mbps to 1Gbps)
- applications using huge data sets
- applications that take advantage of layer 2 programmability/software defined networking
- demonstrations of the above running point-to-point with local anchor institutions (over community fiber or wireless)
Team Idea 1 (example from SF Hack Days): Campaign ad aggregator
WHO: Ralf Muehlen
WHAT: Aggregate campaign ads by region and analyze them. Discover contradictory TV quotes from the same candidate; fact-check explanations and contrast messages by media market.
NEEDS: html5 guru
Team Idea 2 (example from SF Hack Days): DIY holography for education
WHO: Mike McCarthy, Andor
WHAT: Using Kinect sensors, provide a virtual classroom that will enable scientist from San Francisco's science museums to teach kids at community sites connected to the CBN.
NEEDS: WebGL wizard
Team idea (HTML5-based Web Conferencing for Distance Education)
WHO: Fred Dixon
WHAT: Extend BigBlueButton to support HTML5 clients (using WebRTC).
NEEDS: Create a WebRTC 'server' that can accept incoming connections from multiple WebRTC clients and multiplex the HD audio and video. Control of presentations, chat, and whiteboard can be handled by BigBlueButton. Store the HD audio and video streams to separate files for later processing for playback of the recorded session.
Team idea 4
WHO: team leader/champion
WHAT:
NEEDS: