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| 3 | = Grace Hopper Celebration Codeathon for Humanity = |
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| 5 | The Codeathon at GHC2010 is intended to introduce participants to rapid development of FOSS applications in a collective coding setting. |
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| 7 | == Suggested Codeathon Projects == |
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| 9 | === CAP: Common Alerting Protocol === |
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| 11 | * Receive CAP messages from an external CAP source. |
| 12 | * Provide a form for originating CAP messages. |
| 13 | * Send CAP messages to subscribers, retrying on failure. |
| 14 | * Write a Facebook app to receive CAP messages and post them on one's wall. |
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| 16 | === GIS: Mapping Improvements === |
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| 18 | === SAARAA: Situational Awareness and Rapid Assessment Application |
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| 20 | This was started as an Android app at RHoK #3. That version uploaded data to a very simple Heroku back end. |
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| 22 | http://www.rhok.org/problems/saaraa-situational-awareness-and-rapid-assessment-application |
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| 24 | As a follow-on to that project, allow the app to send to an Eden back end. |
| 25 | * Add an appropriate model. |
| 26 | * Handle receiving uploaded messages from non-logged in users -- provide a code they can use to log in later. |
| 27 | * Display the messages by category and time. |
| 28 | * Allow commenting on the messages (e.g. adding updates about handling the messages). |
| 29 | * Allow sending a message back. |