WebOSroundup Hackathon
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Introduction
The webOSroundup Hackathon is a one-day event where the webOS community comes together to create an open source app in a single day. The first event was planned for August 21st, 2010.
Beta ToDo List
- No error message when a duplicate account name is registered
- Offline storage
- Reading articles inside the app
- Help documentation
- Sharing / Social Networking
- Translation
- Encryption and security
- Style validation message on add bookmark errors
API Key
During development, the following shared ReadItLater API key can be used: 17eg3B50pyjr6Sb409Te3d8k04AHH63b
Note that this is temporary and is NOT the key that will be used by the application upon release. It's strictly for development.
Media
Splash Screen: 
Background for all Scenes: 
Teams
API
- API Details
- Lead: Frank Zammetti
- James Harris
- Ed Finkler
- Markus Leutwyler
- Bryan Roth
UI
- Lead: David Baxter
- Cliffton Thomas
- Trevor Moore
- Jordan Gensler
Signup/Login
- Lead: Goatslacker
- SirataXero
Encryption and Security
- Lead: Jordan Gensler
Main/Reader/Article List Scene
- Lead: Greg Hrebek
- Roy Sutton
- Will Honey (Tibfib)
- Janni Kovacs
Add New Bookmark
- Lead: Jeremy Thomas
- Janni Kovacs (I created a add bookmark dialog in the main-assistant, may need some tweaking. Actual API call not yet performed)
Caching/Offline Mode
- Lead: SirataXero
- Dave Freeman (sugardave)
Help Docs
- Lead: James Harris
Architecture
- Lead: Roy Sutton
Patch/External App Support
- Cross App Details
- Lead: James Harris
App Prefs/Cookies
- Brian Haeffner (haeffb)
Social Networking
- Lead: Stan Toney (StanleyMToney)
- anotherguy
Translation
- Markus Leutwyler
Wherever help is needed
- HattCzech
- Donald Kirker (dkirker, find me in #webos on freenode)
- Tim Stiffler-Dean
- René Meister (rretsiem)
Testers
- Lead: Roy Sutton
- Justin Partain
- Rob Whisler (rwhiz8577)
- Donald Kirker
- Brian Haeffner (haeffb)
- Larry Clark
- Dave Balmer
Events
Read It Later Hackathon
Getting Started
Useful Links
Source code repository on Github:
Read It Later API:
Read It Later API Documentation
Palm SDK:
Ares:
Download and install a git client. You may want to check out SmartGit, a Git client for Windows, Linux and OS X:
Git documentation for Windows users:
An Illustrated Guide to Git on Windows
Git workflow example:
Video of setting up Git on Windows:
First Steps
- Create an account at Palm and download the SDK
- Create a Github account if you want to be able to contribute source code back easily
- Fork the Hackathon source repository
- Download the sourcode using Git or import into an Ares project
Connecting to Github from Ares
- Click on the source code repository dropdown (looks like a safe)
- Setup a keychain if you have not already
- Click Checkout Project
- Select SVN as the repository type
- For url enter your github repository in the form: (replacing webOSroundup with your username)
http://svn.github.com/webOSroundup/Hackathon-Number-1.git
- For project name enter Hackathon
- For keychain password enter the password for your keychain
- Enter your github username and password
Merging new code into your GitHub repo
You will get "Pull Requests" from webosRoundup on Github to pull in new code. To pull the new code into your master branch on your repo:
- Read your email! You should get a notification about the pull request there. Alternately, check your notifications list on GitHub (top bar, next to username)
- Go to your Fork Queue on GitHub. This will list the commits you can pull.
- Check the commits you want to merge.
- Select "Apply" in the dropdown for that commit set.
- Click "Update" on the next page. This will merge these commits into your repo on your current branch (probably "master")
- Now your repo is up to date!
