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Hopefully the Rumble organizers drop Rails from the competition next year. At this point it no longer makes sense. If Django, PHP, or Java folks want to enter, they should be allowed. It would say a lot more for whatever language/framework the winners of the competition used.
Hopefully the Rumble organizers drop Rails from the competition next year. At this point it no longer makes sense. If Django, PHP, or Java folks want to enter, they should be allowed. It would say a lot more for whatever language/framework the winners of the competition used.
Later this week, Thursday if all goes well, we'll use the expert panel advice to whittle the list down to a top tier and open up public judging to decide the winner. I hope everyone here will want to participate!
Winners will be announced next weekend.
For convenience: #1 LowDown - http://mcp.r09.railsrumble.com #2 Hi, I'm - http://hi.im #3 Omnominator - http://omnominator.com #4 Thingivore - http://thingivore.com #5 Neighborhood Watch - http://neighborhoodwat.ch #6 Techmeets - http://techmeets.com #7 Straightlist - http://husohuso.r09.railsrumble.com #8 SmackSale - http://smacksale.com #9 Nybbl - http://nybblme.r09.railsrumble.com #10 Last Percent - http://lastper…
What? No ZenVDN? http://zenvdn.com
I built http://www.sharelocally.org/ for RailsRumble (solo), which I plan to open-source. Anyone interested in the concept? I've got a lot more planned I didn't fit in. This was my first rumble and learned a whole lot about exactly how much fits in 48 hours. Can't wait until next year's.
And I think the "space" (sharing stuff/ re-thinking owning/renting) needs a lot of attention.
Related:
* https://neighborgoods.net/ Neighborgoods is currently in private beta right now. They seem to be a social site centered on finding people to borrow/loan/rent stuff in your immediate area for free/small fees. Hopefully they will have an API, and projects like yours could benefit. spots are a bit booked right now, but count me in as an enthusiastic follower if you open source it.
* For a Yahoo! Hack day project, somebody took the Yahoo! Mail API to make Freecycle data available "on the outside." It looks like this was done only as proof-of-concept, and since each Freecycle community is its own list, this might be hard, but I think there is a LOT to gained by scraping the goods out of there.
* Maybe take the eBay reputation data out via API, and display in your system?
A related idea is being done
I built http://www.sharelocally.org/ for RailsRumble (solo), which I plan to open-source. Anyone interested in the concept? I've got a lot more planned I didn't fit in. This was my first rumble and learned a whole lot about exactly how much fits in 48 hours. Can't wait until next year's.
Looks great! And I think the "space" (sharing stuff/ re-thinking owning/renting) needs a lot of attention. Related: * https://neighborgoods.net/ Neighborgoods is currently in private beta right now. They seem to be a social site centered on finding people to borrow/loan/rent stuff in your immediate area for free/small fees. Hopefully they will have an API, and projects like yours could benefit. spots are a bit booked…
As far as reputation system, instead of pulling eBay's reputation data, I was hoping to build a sharing-borrowing reputation system. I don't have any reason to think that being a good eBay seller/buyer would make someone a timely and careful borrower/lender.
"Stuff lending" seems like the sort of thing us internet folks could help with, though, which is why I built ShareLocally.
Do you know where the beta of NeighborGoods is starting?