2. Development
Georgiana Bere
Developer
Ruby/Rails, elasticsearch
Victor Nițu
DevOps
Debian, Perl, PHP, Ember.js,
RDBMS & others
Concepts and project management
Ștefan Cândea
Mastermind
Andreea Bonea
Project Manager
Ioana Cristea
Developer & architect
PHP, JavaScript/jQuery
+ casual contributors
Thank you all!
The engine
3. The results: Glider, a hackathon platform
Highlights:
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Project proposals
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Quick team setup
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Submissions
moderation
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Results
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Static pages
Tech details:
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PHP 5.4+
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MySQL
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Zurb Foundation
4. The results: A petitions tool
Highlights:
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Rapid setup
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One big static
page
Tech details:
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PHP 5.4+
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SQLite
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Zurb Foundation
5. The results: Scraping tools & API
Highlights:
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Background scraping
data from:
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mfinante.ro
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portal.just.ro
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Data accessible via API
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Dynamic collecting
Tech details:
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Ruby 2.2.0
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Sinatra
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Mechanize gem
6. The results: The Black Sea platform
Highlights:
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Publishing platform
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Custom framework
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In-place content editing
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Dedicated administrative UI
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The platform also powers
the http://thesponge.eu
website, http://crji.org to
follow soon
Tech details:
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PHP 5.4+
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MySQL
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jQuery
7. The results: Knowledge Exchange Platform
Highlights:
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Mix and match
resources, assignments
and persons
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Bundle of essential
tools for creating and
sharing content
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Keep track of your
group's activity
Tech details:
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Ruby 2.2.0
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Rails 4.2 / Rails API
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PostgreSQL
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Ember.js (Ember CLI)
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SASS / Zurb Foundation
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ownCloud / etherpad
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elasticsearch
8. The results: Procurements data mining*
Highlights:
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44 CSV files
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4,362,901 XML dumps
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Data cleaning
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...parsing
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...analyzing
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Output clean data in SQL dumps
Tech details:
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Ruby 2.1, PHP 5.4, Perl, GNU sed, AWK
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MariaDB 10.x
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LibreOffice & vim scripts and macros
* collaboration with SAR (sar.org.ro)
9. The results: Smaller bits of code
Scripts:
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Some CSV cleaning scripts
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Ruby
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TranSVG, a translation assistant for SVG diagrams
● Inkscape, Python, .pot catalogs
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Prototype, resources needed
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Dozens of shell scripts, not published yet
10. The needs:
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Backend code: Ruby/Rails, PHP, Node.js
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Database wizards: NoSQL, full text indexing
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Server gurus: automated deployments, provisioning, backup
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Frontend needs:
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UI / UX designers and developers
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Ember.js enthusiast
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Research: we constantly discover new stuff, but we have little time to analyze
and evaluate
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Networking:
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Finding great and available tech specialists on various technologies
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Finding conferences and workshops to:
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Debate
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Learn
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Show off
11. Thanks for your patience!
Questions?
Ideas?
Resources?
>> tech@thesponge.eu
