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Lief's avatar
Lief
Champion
2 years ago

Lab / Idea / Unconference Meetup?

I have a couple things on my community backlog that probably require some level of customization - I tend to be looking for stuff in Atlas that already has some traction or headway

AND

I see lots of "under consideration" ideas

AND

I see lots of "Did anybody make an XYZ widget in their community..." questions

BUT

what I haven't yet found (beyond this forum itself) is an available time and place for Devs to get together on their own and either attack a specific common problem OR talk together through a top of mind issue.

It could be anything from a KhorosLed affair or even just an Unconference we put on ourselves. Would be REALLY great if there was a vanilla lab stood up to do actual live-action work that participants could then try to leverage in their own environments later.

Am I just not finding this yet?
Do we need to bootstrap something?

BlakeH - has this come up before?

 

API
Community API
FreeMarker
UI & Design
  • BlakeH's avatar
    BlakeH
    Khoros Staff
    8 months ago

    Quick update: we've got some internal folks who are interested, and are thinking it would be smart to do this around the time the Aurora SDK is publicly ready.

    I don't have a firm date on that just yet, but it seems like we're aiming for sometime in the next quarter. I'll keep ya posted!

    • Claudius's avatar
      Claudius
      Boss
      8 months ago

      Count me in. I'm both working on Classic and Aurora and would love to enter a hackathon/unconference/dev meetup again.

  • keithkelly's avatar
    keithkelly
    Leader
    2 years ago

    I'm intrigued by this idea.  Even if not a live meeting, a space where it's natural to collaboratively build code would be pretty sweet. 

    It seems like even a small group of us could quickly build a little library of tools & utilities, from Python to FreeMarker to PowerQuery. 

  • Akenefick's avatar
    Akenefick
    Genius
    2 years ago

    I would love to take part in some kind of meetup. I'm a relatively new developer and would really like the opportunity to network and meet some people doing similar work. I have nobody to talk shop with ğŸ˜€.

    I would also like to see a space for collaborating and sharing code. This forum seems more geared towards questions and answers than sharing or collaborating on projects, but maybe this could even be accomplished with a label like "Code Library" or something similar added to this forum.

  • MrB77's avatar
    MrB77
    Maven
    6 months ago

    It would be awesome to revive the old Idea of a hackathon like during Linc 2015 and 2016 together with luk Claudius. 

    We had a "hackathon light" during our last event where users were able to play around with Aurora and a real hackathon would be the next level. 

    You can definitely count us in, and we even would offer to support the Khoros team to set this up. 

  • BlakeH's avatar
    BlakeH
    Khoros Staff
    6 months ago

    Hey all, so great to see the continued interest in this event! 

    We have a registration page ready for it now here, so you can officially sign up to attend.

  • BlakeH's avatar
    BlakeH
    Khoros Staff
    2 years ago

    I love the idea of an unconference / hackathon! I'm not sure what's in the works event-wise for the year yet, but I'll pass it on for consideration, for sure. 

  • AmanMalhotra's avatar
    AmanMalhotra
    Expert
    8 months ago

    Count me in guys, I would love to meet the devs working on Khoros Platform, it's been more than 4 years now, that I have been working on the Khoros Classic Community Platform, and I just started working on the Aurora Community, would be great to share the insights and knowledge and to discuss the things we can help each other with.

  • Drew_C's avatar
    Drew_C
    Boss
    8 months ago

    I thought I replied to this one already, but nope - I just subscribed. 😆

    Anyway - yes please!