[Hackathon-list] Fwd: Short and immediate report from the RIPE Atlas hackathon

[Livingood, Jason]

Thank you to all of the participants and of course to the awesome RIPE
team!! :-)


- Jason


On 3/29/15, 11:51 PM, "Vesna Manojlovic" <BECHA at ripe.net> wrote:

>Dear all,
>
>See the email I just sent  to the "main" ripe-atlas list... and
>subscribe ;-)
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>thank you all one more time!!
>
>Vesna
>(too excited to go to sleep ;-)
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>-------- Forwarded Message --------
>Subject: [atlas] Short and immediate report from the RIPE Atlas hackathon
>Date: Sun, 29 Mar 2015 23:49:12 +0200
>From: Vesna Manojlovic <BECHA at ripe.net>
>To: RIPE Atlas People <ripe-atlas at ripe.net>
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>We had the first RIPE Atlas hackathon!
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>Three days of intensive coding, cooperating, learning, connecting and
>having fun (& surviving  massive power outage on Friday in Amsterdam) -
>-  and the results have bee impressive!
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>Ten final projects have been presented, and four have been chosen as
>worthy of the awards:
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>1. Disco: Combining the visalization of disconnection-events with
>localized Twitter feed & live weather data
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>2. Spatial Bucketing of RIPE Atlas Probes on Map Projections (aka
>Picketty ‹ making the global probe selection more equal)
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>3. Traceroute stability check & BGP+traceroute (two projects sharing the
>3rd place)
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>We had 24 participants & 1 no-show, 6 jury members and 11 support staff
>(coincidentally: 42!)
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>On behalf of the community, we are grateful to Comcast for sponsoring
>prizes and travel expenses, hackerspace Technologia Incognita for the
>inspiring location on Friday, and to RIPE NCC for the office facilities
>during the weekend, staff support, food & drinks & amazing data & tools
>& platform of RIPE Atlas.
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>On behalf of the organizers (RIPE NCC & Comcast), we are grateful to
>everyone who took part & contributed, as well as to their family &
>employers, who let them get away for the weekend of combined work&fun.
>
>Longer and more detailed report will follow, once we all get some sleep
>& collect our notes from tweets, IRC, mailing list & pieces of papers.
>
>Cheers,
>Vesna
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