[atlas] Short and immediate report from the RIPE Atlas hackathon

Thanks Vesna, for this short report; I thought about it when I went to
bed yesterday :-)

Wonderful! Sounds like a really great event, and what an auspicious
number that...

Great initiative, can't wait to see the results.

cheers, Axel


On 29/03/2015 23:49, Vesna Manojlovic wrote:
> We had the first RIPE Atlas hackathon!
> 
> Three days of intensive coding, cooperating, learning, connecting and
> having fun (& surviving  massive power outage on Friday in Amsterdam) -
> -  and the results have bee impressive!
> 
> Ten final projects have been presented, and four have been chosen as
> worthy of the awards:
> 
> 1. Disco: Combining the visalization of disconnection-events with
> localized Twitter feed & live weather data
> 
> 2. Spatial Bucketing of RIPE Atlas Probes on Map Projections (aka
> Picketty — making the global probe selection more equal)
> 
> 3. Traceroute stability check & BGP+traceroute (two projects sharing the
> 3rd place)
> 
> We had 24 participants & 1 no-show, 6 jury members and 11 support staff
> (coincidentally: 42!)
> 
> On behalf of the community, we are grateful to Comcast for sponsoring
> prizes and travel expenses, hackerspace Technologia Incognita for the
> inspiring location on Friday, and to RIPE NCC for the office facilities
> during the weekend, staff support, food & drinks & amazing data & tools
> & platform of RIPE Atlas.
> 
> On behalf of the organizers (RIPE NCC & Comcast), we are grateful to
> everyone who took part & contributed, as well as to their family &
> employers, who let them get away for the weekend of combined work&fun.
> 
> Longer and more detailed report will follow, once we all get some sleep
> & collect our notes from tweets, IRC, mailing list & pieces of papers.
> 
> Cheers,
> Vesna
> 
> 
> 
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