[openstack-tw] App Hackathon update meeting

Jerry Chou jchou at cs.nthu.edu.tw
Wed Jan 13 17:12:02 UTC 2016


Hi Michael,
  Yes, it is certainly possible to use it for pre-screen.
  Once you have more details about the competency test, we can try to work
it out for the best we can.

Best,
Jerry


On Wed, Jan 13, 2016 at 10:26 PM, Michael Jenkins <md.jenkins at icloud.com>
wrote:

> Hi Jerry,
>
> Thank you for the generous offer to use SSCloud for training and testing.
> I’m sure we can benefit from the early use of your platform. I’m curious —
> would there be a way we could use your system to help pre-screen
> participants (i.e. create a participant competency test) to help evaluate
> knowledge/experience levels?
>
> I’m in support of your suggestion about having the chairs create a judging
> criteria. I believe that David Flanders has also started compiling some
> thoughts along this same line; and would like to coordinate amongst the
> four of you along with ITRI/IDOT/MOEA and QCT.
>
> Best regards,
> Michael
>
> On 12 Jan 2016, at 21:09 , Jerry Chou <jchou at cs.nthu.edu.tw> wrote:
>
> Dear All,
>   As mentioned in the meetup today, NTHU is hosting a openstack platform
> called SSCloud (https://www.unicloud.org.tw/services/sscloud).
>   We are glad to offer it as a training and testing platform.
>   You may find the user manual and hardware spec on the webpage.
>   If you need any further information, please feel free to contact me
>   or our technical supporting staff "Chen-Hao Ku" (
> jhku at sslab.cs.nthu.edu.tw)
>
>   For judging, I also suggest to let the chairs of three tracks to gather
> a list of judging criteria in their own area as a guideline for the
> competition, while the topic, data, tools and devices can keep open to
> inspire more creativity.
>   For instance, from the point of "system", we would like to see the
> application is built on top of a backend solution with HA, load balance and
> elasticity.
>   If we have a agreement on this idea, I can give you my concrete list by
> the weekend.
>
> Cheers,
> Jerry
>
>
> On Tue, Jan 12, 2016 at 3:37 PM, David F Flanders <flanders at openstack.org>
> wrote:
> >
> > In addition to the video are the notes from the meeting below.
> > Please feel invited to reply with questions/suggestions using inline
> reply:
> >
> > Attendees: Michael, Rico, Tom, Anita, Danny, Jack, Allen, Dr Chung,
> Christopher, Dr Lai, Flanders (video conf)
> >
> > 1. Update by Project Manager (Michael)
> > --> Welcome the large group on experts
> > --> introduced the hackathon and current status to the group
> > --> Idea began back in October to help increase awareness of building
> applications (mobile, web, etc.)
> > --> This will be the first application hackathon (alpha) which OpenStack
> will run.
> > --> Many events around the world will be run by OpenStack community
> based on this first event.
> >
> > 2. Site Selection
> > --> Michael introduced the two different sites
> > --> Dates of event and numbers of people will be decided once a venue is
> selected.
> > --> Potential use of Airforce Base or Hack space in Taipai
> > --> Hoping to have a venue selected by end of the week
> > --> Hoping to have Hackathon mid March
> >
> > 3. Development Objective & Event Theme
> > --> Michael introduced the Smart Commerce development objectives
> > --> Application developer problem scope: smart commerce apps
> > --> potential to use iBeacon and 4G/LTE technologies for tracking
> shoppers.
> > --> we will have a call for volunteers to support the event and
> technology hardware
> > --> request for judging panel and team leads (mentors)
> > --> rough estimate: 40-50 teams of teams 3-6 people. Judging in
> parallel, like american idol?
> > --> Hoping that University Profs and/or Students able to be judges
> and/or mentors
> > --> Encourage professors to invite their students to participate.
> > --> Encouraging industry to send their best developers to lead (mentor)
> teams
> > --> How can participants utiilse the 4G/LTE+iBeacon technology on site
> at the hackathon?
> > --> Looking for partners to connect the devices to OpenStack directly.
> >
> > Discussion:
> > --> Professor Zhen: good topic, current trend, MOEA, data analytics -
> availability of suitable data is very crucial,
> > --> Youbike data - from yuan hua
> > --> open test space
> > --> would advise to have pre-built images
> > --> basic tools - only fundamentals - save some time, but leave room to
> develop advanced things
> > --> originality constraint in the judging
> > --> only provide dataset, etc
> > --> Judging criteria discussion: emphasize the goal - creativity,
> scalability etc; publish rules online - eg what can you do beforehand;
> disclosure form - what did you do beforehand; constrain and encourage; put
> everything in a github repo; any restrictions on IoT devices? eg
> propreitary devices; focus on development effort; recommended devices/ not
> recommended devices; open source devices recommended
> >
> > 4. Technology constraints and options:
> >
> > --> Request for suggestions on which companies are likely to want to
> participate
> > --> Datasets are a good way to frame a hack event.  Such as Open Data
> Taiwan
> > --> Potential shopper datasets being made available?
> > --> All technology teams will need to use OpenStack as the platform for
> their application.
> >
> > 5.) Vendors for iBeacon/4G technology?
> >
> > --> mediatek
> > --> advantek
> > --> foxconn
> > --> Intel
> >
> > 4. Judges, Mentorship & Volunteer Organisation
> > --> request for more ideas on what the problem scope should be for the
> different hack teams.
> > --> need to write up engaging set of problems (hack challenges +
> mentors) so participants are inspired to engage as team.
> > --> request for mentors who have used the technology beforehand and have
> an idea for what kind of problem they want to solve
> > --> Two rounds of judging - first make a shortlist, then have full panel
> of judging for the final awards.
> > --> university and industry experts act as mentors.
> > --> mentors lead teams
> > --> prizes are a motivating factor to just sign up, they don't end up
> being the thing people remember as valuable from the event.
> > --> most valuable prize would be getting to go to OpenStack summit as a
> team?
> > --> use cases for engaging the wider public (marketting): help promote
> international shopping, ease of shopping experience, etc.
> > --> need mentors who are inspired by how shopping could be better.
> >
> >
> > 5. Cloud - Key outcomes
> > --> key learning outcome is to understand the cloud and it potential for
> building new scalable apps that will work with larger audiences
> > --> What will students want to achieve as part of this hackathon, what
> value do they get after working all weekend long?
> > --> What can we do in advance to prepare participants?
> > --> hackathon main aim shouldn't be a competition, it should be an
> experience.
> >
> >
> > On Tue, Jan 12, 2016 at 12:55 PM, David F Flanders <
> flanders at openstack.org> wrote:
> >>
> >> About to start the hangout meeting (in five minutes).
> >> Please, we invite you to join the meeting here:
> https://plus.google.com/events/cko4nle4teloim9k05smfu4ml6o
> >>
> >> On Mon, Jan 11, 2016 at 10:43 PM, Rico Lin <rico.l at inwinstack.com>
> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> The Hangout group for this meeting.
> >>> Link: https://plus.google.com/events/cko4nle4teloim9k05smfu4ml6o
> >>>
> >>> On Jan 11, 2016 7:37 PM, "Michael Jenkins" <md.jenkins at icloud.com>
> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Thank you Andre for the support of QCT and we look forward to
> including Danny, Lynette, and Jack to the growing team.
> >>>
> >>> Best regards,
> >>> Michael
> >>>
> >>> On 11 Jan 2016, at 18:38 , Andre Hu (胡明德) <Andre.hu at qct.io> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Hello Rico,
> >>>
> >>> Thanks for meeting info.
> >>>
> >>> QCT will have following persons to attend the meeting tomorrow.
> Please excuse me not to be able to attend tomorrow meeting due to prior
> meeting commitment.
> >>>
> >>> Senior marketing director: Danny
> >>> Marketing deputy mgr: Lynette
> >>> Quanta Data Center mgr: Jack Ong
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Thanks,
> >>> Andre Hu
> >>> QCT
> >>> +886 963 919 108
> >>> www.qct.io
> >>>
> >>> From: Rico Lin [mailto:rico.l at inwinstack.com]
> >>> Sent: Monday, January 11, 2016 5:22 PM
> >>> To: David F Flanders
> >>> Cc: Vincent S. Tseng; 楊傑文; Michael Jenkins; AvengerMoJo Alex;
> ychung at cs.nthu.edu.tw; hungsh at csie.ntu.edu.tw; Minolu .C; 王惠民; Andre Hu
> (胡明德); Jerry Chou; openstack-tw at lists.openstack.org;
> yehching.chung at gmail.com; Fred Chien
> >>> Subject: Re: [openstack-tw] App Hackathon update meeting
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Meeting Time: Tuesday, 2016/1/12
> >>> Meeting host: Michael
> >>> Meeting will be at room 447 in EECS building, National Tsing Hua
> University.
> >>>
> >>> One more minor agenda item:
> >>>
> >>> 8. Active Open App Developer Communities in Taiwan who might want to
> collaborate?
> >>>
> >>> A quick look at the Meetup.com <http://meetup.com> for Taiwan shows
> the following as potential communities we could invite?
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Taipai Python User Group
> >>> Taipai R User Group
> >>> ElasticGroup Taipai
> >>> Taiwan Java User Group
> >>> Rails Taiwan
> >>> Startup Taiwan
> >>> etc.
> >>>
> >>> Best, Flanders
> >>>
> >>> On Mon, Jan 11, 2016 at 4:08 PM, Michael Jenkins <
> md.jenkins at icloud.com> wrote:
> >>> Thank you Tom for your thoughts. I spoke with Rico about the agenda
> and feel that the meeting should only last 1.5 hrs. Originally I was
> pressed for time but have been able to adjust my schedule to allow ample
> time at NTHU, so I will not be rushed to return to Taipei for my next
> meeting.
> >>>
> >>> Let’s try to keep the meeting to 1.5 hrs and ready to update on
> progress for the following:
> >>> 1. Site selection
> >>> 2. Development objective and event theme
> >>> 3. Mentor and volunteer organization
> >>> 4. Event support staff organization
> >>> 5. Judges and registration
> >>> 6. Schedule tracking and progress
> >>> 7. Any other items
> >>>
> >>> Best regards,
> >>> Michael
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> On 11 Jan 2016, at 12:55 , Tom Fifield <tom at openstack.org> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Hi all,
> >>>
> >>> Just to clarify the agenda. So far I didn't see a topic proposed from
> NTHU?
> >>>
> >>> ·         Confirming Location
> >>> o    We will have a site survey on Monday, so we should be able to
> select site by Wednesday.
> >>> ·         Organizing Volunteer group
> >>> o    We have some great volunteers list in etherpad. We also have some
> others sponsors and professors. According to schedule, sponsorship
> searching should be closed at the end of January (IIRC). Since we probably
> will start some detail working, it will be great if we can conform the
> commits from each other, so works can be dispatched.
> >>> ·         tech topic
> >>> ·         Opening registry?
> >>> ·         Any topic, please reply and add on mailing list.
> >>>
> >>> Also, 2 hours seems like a long time for an update meeting. Last time
> one hour was sufficient. Michael, as the meeting chair, what do you think?
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> As always, we should post any updates on the mailing list to allow
> people to read before the meeting. This way we can keep the meeting short
> and to the point.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Regards,
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Tom
> >>>
> >>> On 10/01/16 20:31, Rico Lin wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Thanks Micheal, but this is mostly professor Chung's arrangement.
> >>> Meeting will be at room 447 in EECS building, National Tsing Hua
> University.
> >>>
> >>> Professor Chung and a lot of professors will join this meeting there.
> It will be nice if Michael and others can join this meeting there.
> >>> The room can contains 40+ people. This meeting also will be a hangout
> meeting for others who really can't join this meeting in NTHU.
> >>>
> >>> On Jan 10, 2016 2:13 PM, "Michael Jenkins" <md.jenkins at icloud.com>
> wrote:
> >>> Hi Rico, thank you for coordinating this important meeting. I’ll need
> to adjust my schedule for Tuesday and will be able to attend the meeting at
> 10am.
> >>>
> >>> Could you please let me know the exact meeting location?
> >>>
> >>> Best regards,
> >>> Michael
> >>>
> >>> On 9 Jan 2016, at 11:15 , Rico Lin <rico.l at inwinstack.com> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Dear all
> >>> Thanks very much for prof. Chung's arrangement. There will be a
> meeting in NTHU at 10am on Tuesday.
> >>>
> >>> Apologies for any  inconvenient, but we should change the meeting time
> to Tuesday with Prof. Chung's meeting and merge all topics together.
> >>>
> >>> Michael, are you available that time?
> >>>
> >>> Propose to have a meeting next Wednesday morning 10-12 am. This
> meeting should hosted by Micheal, our project manager for this event who
> get to control topics and schedule during meeting.
> >>>
> >>> How we host this meeting: a hangout meeting will be nice.
> >>>
> >>> In the meeting, we can have chance to decide fallowing things:
> >>> ·         Confirming Location
> >>> o    We will have a side survey on Monday, so we should be able to
> select site by Wednesday.
> >>> ·         Organizing Volunteer group
> >>> o    We have some great volunteers list in etherpad. We also have some
> others sponsors and professors. According to schedule, sponsorship
> searching should be closed at the end of January (IIRC). Since we probably
> will start some detail working, it will be great if we can conform the
> commits from each other, so works can be dispatched.
> >>> ·         tech topic
> >>> ·         Opening registry?
> >>> ·         Any topic, please reply and add on mailing list.
> >>> Thanks for the hard works by Prof. Chung and other Professors, we now
> have big supports from academic including fallowing university:
> >>> ·         National Taiwan University,
> >>> ·         National Tsing Hua University,
> >>> ·         National Chiao Tung University
> >>> We should have a good chance to get around all guys and have a good
> chance to share with each other and work on above items.
> >>>
> >>> Also would like to invite everyone subscribe on this mailing group
> http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-tw so we
> can have everyone to joining all discussion for event.
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> Jerry Chou
> Assistant Professor
> Computer Science Department
> National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu Taiwan
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Jerry Chou
Assistant Professor
Computer Science Department
National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu Taiwan
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