{"id":221,"date":"2009-04-28T13:10:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-28T13:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.agm.me.uk\/blog\/2009\/04\/open-hack-london.php"},"modified":"2009-04-28T13:10:00","modified_gmt":"2009-04-28T13:10:00","slug":"open-hack-london","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.agm.me.uk\/blog\/2009\/04\/open-hack-london.php","title":{"rendered":"Open Hack London"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.agm.me.uk\/blog\/uploaded_images\/OpenHackLondon-764292.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 133px;\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.agm.me.uk\/blog\/uploaded_images\/OpenHackLondon-764286.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>In June 2007 I attended the BBC\/Yahoo <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.agm.me.uk\/blog\/archive\/2007_06_01_00.php\">London Hack Day<\/a> at Alexandra Palace where I teamed with this Thom and others to create a socially controlled blimp. In 2008 I attended the BBCs <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.agm.me.uk\/blog\/2008\/06\/mashed08.php\">Mashed<\/a> (sort of like Hack Day, but because of the unique way it is funded and all that) where Ewan somehow persuaded me to code a flight simulator in PHP. Regardless of the name, all these events are a chance for us geeks to get together and build something in 24 hours.<\/p>\n<p>In 2009 it is Yahoo&#8217;s turn again with <a href=\"http:\/\/openhacklondon.pbworks.com\/\">Open Hack London<\/a> in Covent Garden, London. I have a place and I understand there are still some places available. The question is how can I surpass the awesomeness (or is that shear stupidity) of past events. I have a few ideas.<\/p>\n<p>1) The most useless idea is inspired by <a href=\"http:\/\/isitchristmas.com\/\">Is it Christmas<\/a>, but instead of looking out the window you can go to &#8220;Is It Wet&#8221;, have your location predicted, the weather forecast consulted, and you informed about any rain outside.<\/p>\n<p>2) Slightly more serious is to produce a hardware navigation system for web sites to increase accessibility, and to simplify the user experience.<\/p>\n<p>3) Finally a profile system for BarCamp attendees to put us in contact with each other.<\/p>\n<p>Are any of these any good? Have you got any better ideas? I really want to do something with hardware but am struggling to think of a good idea that can be done in a day. Help!<\/p>\n<p>Ps. Ewan, the answer is no. I don&#8217;t care what you say or how you say it, this time I am not going to be fooled in to doing the imposable. Just no. ;-)<\/p>\n<p>Pps. If you don&#8217;t fancy a full 24 hour hack <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodhack.org\/\">Moo are holding a one day event<\/a> (at the same time, Doh!)<\/p>\n<p>Ppps. Ewan, I have not changed my mind. The answer is still no!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In June 2007 I attended the BBC\/Yahoo London Hack Day at Alexandra Palace where I teamed with this Thom and others to create a socially controlled blimp. In 2008 I attended the BBCs Mashed (sort of like Hack Day, but because of the unique way it is funded and all that) where Ewan somehow persuaded [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4t60H-3z","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.agm.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.agm.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.agm.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.agm.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.agm.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.agm.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.agm.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.agm.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.agm.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}