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Hack Workshop Series

angad — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 18:23:52 +0000

We had mentioned about a workshop series from linuxNUS in a recent blog post and now here we are with something concrete that you can look forward to!

linuxNUS and NUS Entrepreneurship Society bring to you the “Hack Workshop Series”.

Here’s the thing: we’re most interested in hackers and entrepreneurs. If you want to be an entrepreneur but you don’t have sufficient technical skills, come to us and we’ll give you a good boost in the right direction. And if you’re a hacker, no problem: come to us anyway and we’ll share with you cool new tools that you might want to play around with. (Plus: you’ll meet plenty of code ninjas and startup people – always a good thing, in our opinion!)

The Hack Workshop Series will cover both technical and non-technical aspects of development. We’ve gotten some of the best people to teach it: developers from local open-source developer groups, web entrepreneurs and various members of the local startup community.

Here are a couple of things we’re going to focus on: - simplicity in design - teamwork in technical teams - scalable models / adaptability to change - power of open-source - collaboration - proper development practices - the importance of self-learning

We will be collaborating with local open source developer groups, entrepreneurs and startups for the workshops. Currently the following organisations are helping us with the workshops

The Best Time of The Week

We know you’re likely to have busy lives, so we’ve scheduled all our workshops for Friday evenings. That way there won’t be any time clashes with most of your lectures. Expect 8-10 workshops this semester; ranging from technical to non-technical levels of difficulty. (And, yes, by technical we mean basic programming knowledge.)

If that isn’t good enough, we will also be holding Hackfests throughout the semester. Hackfests are gatherings where you get to work on your own ideas and projects, just for the heck of it. Why hack? Well we do it for fun, but the pizza sharing helps. And if you come up with something cool, we’ll showcase and discuss your ideas throughout the rest of the workshops!

Here is a tentative list of the workshops - (Stay tuned for the schedule!)

(T – Technical, N – Non-technical)

Installfest – Setting up a development Environment (T)
The UNIX Philosophy (N)
Version Control (T)
HTML5 CSS3 (T)
PHP CodeIgniter Framework (T)
Agile Development (T)
Team Development Practices (N)
Presentation/Pitching Skills (N)
Start-up Talks (N)
User Interface Design (N)

Forming teams with fellow attendees is encouraged, but that’s really up to you. We also encourage you to come up with your own entrepreneurial ideas and develop them along with the workshops.

Here’s the catch, though: attendance to each workshop is capped to a limit. Its on a first-come first-serve basis.

You can pre-register for the workshop series and the launch event here - http://bit.ly/baD3dP

The launch event is scheduled for 20th August, Friday evening, 6.30pm in SoC. The venue will be confirmed to the registrants soon.

You can also follow the latest news at the Facebook page http://bit.ly/bM7bvC or follow us on twitter @linuxNUS

Ideas >> Execution Hackfest – Review

angad — Mon, 10 May 2010 18:10:52 +0000

We had a great Hackfest this Sunday and it turns out that such events are much needed in Singapore to develop a healthy environment for converting ideas into execution. The Hackfest was not a total success in terms of the expected audience but we had a few great souls around that hacked and developed to glory. The event was attended by around 15 people and with many who dropped in occasionally. The good thing about the event was that there was a really casual feel about the place and people were working merrily with usual in-between breaks and drinks. It was a perfect place and time to code, think and develop.

Pictures!!

Created with Admarket’s flickrSLiDR.

It was anticipated that 12hrs is not enough time to develop anything from scratch to end. But yeah, it was enough time to thrash down the ideas, think over it fully and come up with a basic structure. It was also enough time to meet the people around. That was the main beauty of the event. I was teamed up with 2 other NUS students and it was great to see some bonding and idea development. We are surely following up on the stuff that we developed in those 12 hrs.

The people who attended the event -

Ruiwen and Luther – HackerSpace Membership management system in Django.

Angad, Bryan and Shanmugam – A picture with a descriptive related story CMS. [PHP and AJAX]

We also came up with another idea – A Past year papers questions/answers database for Primary, A Levels and University students. We will surely follow up on this one and if anybody is interested in helping out, please contact at coreteam[at]linuxnus[dot]org.

Shanmugam was highly interested in Rooting his HTC Magic and upgrading to 2.1. He received great guidance from the android geeks at the place and we wish him luck with his ventures with Android. He is also a newly recruited member of linuxNUS.

Martin – OpenMoko Bootloader. He was totally immersed into his two Green geeky OLPC XOs and was developing a bootloader on the Open Hardware phone - OpenMoko.

We had a guest who dropped in around 3pm – Nelson, from Dominican Republic. He is a passionate Ruby Developer and did a great show of some cool stuff such as http://www.hashapass.com/ and some Ruby process on his Mac. His blog can be found here – CopyPastel

Tomithy – a peer from the module CS3216 also dropped by and took part in the discussions around. He is a Social Entrepreneur, embarking on NOC next semester to UPenn. Good Luck to him!

The event was ended by a show and tell from everybody present and an enlightening discussion about typed and un-typed languages.

And finally it was great to eat the specially cooked food – low temperature and longer time cooking (sous vide) from Meng Weng. The eggs were really nice with pepper. Moreover, the location of HackerSpaceSG is a great one for good food outside.

Looking forward to organising more such events. We really needs such places and such groups to come up with loads of ideas and execute them with a high spirit. This would surely induce better understanding of – how an idea can be converted effectively to a final product, team work spirit and the start-up environment. Its ultimately all about hard-work and working smart

Ideas >> Execution; Summer Hackfest

angad — Sun, 02 May 2010 19:45:04 +0000

linuxNUS and HackerSpaceSG bring to you the Summer Hackfest and this time we have bigger ideas in mind!

This time great ideas come together at a single place. You have 12hrs to develop anything, either with a team or individually. Share your ideas with others, form great teams and meet different people. You are free to develop anything, any idea that you have in mind – Android, iPhone, Web2.0, linux etc.

Have a blast with coding, designing and developing a business idea, straight from idea >> execution. Start your idea with awesome people around and out.

The last 2 hrs will be devoted to a short discussion of ideas that everybody is working on.

So Come over, grab a corner and JFDI!

The event starts at 9am and ends at 9pm.

9am – 11am Form team, discuss idea.

11am – 8pm – JFDI!

8pm – 9pm – Show-and-Tell & Makan

Please register here. Please note that places are limited for the first 30 registrants. You will be informed by email

http://bit.ly/9FNeyq

Please feel free to drop by the IRC Channel or email us at contact@linuxnus.org

Hackfest!! Crisis Camp @ HackerspaceSG

angad — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 14:52:37 +0000

Hackfest @ HackerspaceSG

Crisis Camp!

linuxNUS is back with its Hackfest and this time our venue is HackerspaceSG! Interestingly, the theme of the Hackfest is “Crisis Camp”! [1] We plan to hack (conceptually and practically) projects for improving technology and practice for humanitarian crisis management and disaster relief.

Inspired by the CrisisCommons Projects [2] of Crisis Camps, we organise this for NUS students and the local Singapore developer community to join and discuss.

All the hackers/geeks/enthusiasts are invited to attend the linuxNUS Hackfest!

You are also of-course free to work on whichever development project you want to, be it anything ranging from Linux to Android to Facebook. Or you can just collaborate with others on their projects. Look out for the one that interests you. Date – 7th February, Sunday Time – 1.30pm to – 6pm Venue – HackerspaceSG, 70A Bussorah Street [3]

[1] http://www.crisiscommons.org/

[2] http://wiki.crisiscommons.org/wiki/Projects

[3] http://hackerspace.sg/

You may want to register here : http://tinyurl.com/FebHackfest

An Afternoon with Simone Brunozzi, Amazon Web Services

angad — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 15:32:55 +0000

An Afternoon with Simone Brunozzi Evangelist, Amazon Web Services Date: Thursday, 26 November 2009, 4pm to 6pm Venue: What’s Next Studio, F11, Symbiosis Block, Fusionopolis 4.00pm Registration 4.30pm Presentation by Simone Brunozzi, Amazon Web Services 5.15pm Discussion and Sharing 6.00pm End

Simone looks forward to share with the audience on the latest trends on cloud computing, Amazon Web Services, and intricate details about Amazon S3. He will also have an open discussion following his presentation with the participants.

Registration: http://apesnap.com/event/simonebrunozzi. Organised by NUS Linux Users’ Group and Azione Capital.

———————————————————————————————- About Simone Brunozzi Simone Brunozzi is a technology enthusiast, involved in IT and computing since an early age. He joined Amazon.com in March 2008 in the role of Web Services Evangelist, traveling across Europe and vicinity to showcase the innovative new solutions by Amazon Web Services and to help developers build businesses and applications. He is following the “Cloud Computing” paradigm shift since 2006, and believes that it is going to replace the traditional computing model in a few years. Of Italian origins, Simone loves traveling, meeting people, and connecting with them. He is a Linux and Ubuntu passionate, loves blogging on www.brunozzi.com, and has interests in the environment, clean energies, and technology in general. Prior to joining Amazon, Simone had his own business focusing on web applications. He also served as a professor of Programming Languages and Compilers at Perugia University and worked as a network and system administrator at the University for Foreigners in Perugia. Simone has a Computer Science degree and spent six months at UC Irvine, California, where he studied the American approach to business and science. He gained early programming experience at the Ministry of Aerial Defense in Rome, Italy.

Hackfest Again! November 2009

angad — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 15:58:51 +0000

We are back with our Hackfest and this time our venue is Redhat Office!

All the hacker/geeks/enthusiasts are invited to attend the linuxNUS Hackfest!

At linuxNUS Hackfests, youre free to work on whichever development project you want to, be it anything ranging from Linux to Android to Facebook. Or you can just collaborate with others on their projects. Look out for the one that interests you.

Importantly, you get to meet and interact with other hackers, and hopefully everyone gets to pass a little knowledge around. The more knowledge is shared, the more everyone benefits! Isnt that great!

Date: 14th November, Saturday Venue: RedHat Office 8 Shenton Way #10-00, Singapore 068811 Timing: 1pm to 6pm Please fill out the form below http://tr.im/linuxnushackfest09 or https://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?formkey=dFlrY09IYnRCRHlNcTkxalRNeC1YQ3c6MA

For any queries contact : contact@linuxnus.org

Hope to see you there!

GNOME.Asia Summit 2009

Luther Goh Lu Feng — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 17:37:08 +0000

The GNOME.Asia Summit is one of the top Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) events for developers, enterprises, officials and general users in Vietnam. The event brings together FOSS projects from Asia and around the world.

The event will feature keynotes, sessions, lightning talks, exhibitions, and a hands-on lab. Topic areas of interest include, but are not limited to:

GNOME 3.0
Localization & Internationalization
Mobile platforms and thin clients
GNOME Communities
GNOME library and application development
Desktop deployments
School software

The event takes place from Nov. 20-22, 2009, in Ho Chi Minh City.

Chairing this event is none other than Mario Behling, President of the LXDE Foundation, and a close friend of Singapore’s FOSS community.

If you are interested in attending this event yourself or know of attendees from Singapore, please kindly indicate in the comments below. It will be great to have a strong Singaporean representation at the event

Singapore Python User Group Oct Meetup

Luther Goh Lu Feng — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 18:03:07 +0000

Date: 15th October 2009 (Thursday) Time: 7 pm to 9+ pm Venue: Singapore Management University, SIS (School of Information System) Seminar Room 2.2

Planned program :

* Python Games Development in 60 minutes (as a Mini Sprint) – Mr. Morgan Heijdemann

Pre-requisites : Because this is a mini-sprint, you need to bring your laptop computer for the hands-on. Pre-installations : Please have python 2.5/2.6 and pyglet 1.1.3 installed beforehand. (http://www.pyglet.org/download.html)

* Python Programming on Your Browser – Dr. Liew Beng Keat 



* PyCon - Call for Papers (Stand up Singapore!) – Dr. Maurice Ling

· PUG website – Connecting our Community – Mr. Abhaya Shenoy

* Lightning talks - Open Invitation.

More details at the website.

linuxNUS HackFest October 2009

dqminh — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 06:25:13 +0000

Hi guys,

linuxNUS is back again with our monthly HackFest. This month, we are proud to have Red Hat as our venue sponsor. So join us and lets have a great weekend together ! Details of the HackFest is as follow:

Time: 1pm-6pm, 17th October 2009

Venue: (Change in Venue) Wego Pte Ltd, 53B Boat Quay, Singapore 049842

To RSVP: please fill in our form below RSVP HERE

If you have any other enquiries, please email us at coreteam@linuxnus.org

[Upcoming] What now, linuxNUS?

Ruiwen — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 03:30:32 +0000

Thanks again everyone for showing such support for our Welcome Tea! You guys turned out in such great numbers this year that we were caught completely off guard! We know it was a tight squeeze, but you guys were such great sports to help shift the furniture around to make way, you rock! =)

linuxNUS Welcome Teao 2009 - By Ruiwen

Future FLOSS sardines - By Gaurav

It’s really heartening to see such strong support for FLOSS (Free, Libre, Open Source Software) in NUS, and we’d really like to do more to help everyone learn and grow as much within the community as possible. Many have said mentioned to us that they’d really like to get more involved with the FLOSS community, but feel like they aren’t yet up to snuff. If you feel that way, don’t! The great thing about the FLOSS community is that all you need to do is ask, and someone usually has a handy solution waiting. Even better, tell us which activities you think will be most beneficial to you and we’ll absolutely try our best to get it done!

Oh, and we were talking about contributing right? A few kind souls have mailed us expressing great interest in being part of the organising team (or Coreteam) for linuxNUS. We’re always happy to have see new faces, of course, so if you’re ready to be part of one of the most active and diverse group of open source advocates in Singapore, join us (if you haven’t already)!

The Welcome Tea might be over, but we’re definitely not putting our feet up! linuxNUS has a few great activities lined up, and we really hope you’ll be able to be part of them!

In there coming weeks, stay tuned for the Installfest, and Hackfest (details to be confirmed). We will also be at Software Freedom Day Singapore 2009, Booth #7.

With that, I’ll leave you now with some pictures taken at the Welcome Tea, held Thursday, 9 Sept 09, at SoC COM1. Enjoy! (Pictures after the jump)

The audience packed out the door

Luther a.k.a elfgoh, explaining how he got into FLOSS

"Ooh, can I see?"

Happy FLOSSers!

More happy FLOSSers!

The rest of the photos can be found here: [1] [2].