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When

The first official MusicBrainz hack weekend will take place between X and Y.

Where

The main event will be taking place in the #musicbrainz-devel IRC channel on irc.freenode.org. We also encourage local people to get together and work on things in person if possible. If you're interested in that, please add your details below:

  • ocharles (Oliver Charles) will be in London. If anyone wants to meet, it may be possible to use the Last.fm offices as hack space (need to confirm).

Ideas

Real time events

Proposed by: ocharles

Now that we have PgQ in our live database, we can do a lot of cool things. Something I'd love to see is a #musicbrainz-editing IRC channel, where a bot can announce changes to an IRC channel. When someone creates an edit, or leaves an edit note, the bot will announce this into the IRC channel. I think this will be interesting just to watch editing in realtime, but also it might have nice side effects on encouraging editing/voting participation.

I would also like to use this event framework to generate an RSS feed of changed MBIDs. This should help reduce problems with libraries doing massive database updates via the web service (headphones, we're looking at you!)

Blog Post

The following needs work, and will be posted to the blog/mb-devel mailing list:

Introducing the first MusicBrainz Online Hack-Weekend

There have been a few discussions on IRC recently about having an online hack weekend, and I'm happy to announce that we finally have some plans.

Between <confirm date> and <confirm date>, we will be encouraging the community to combine together to create some really cool applications that either use MusicBrainz data, or make changes to MusicBrainz itself. We've chosen a fairly long timeframe (compared to a typical hackday) due to the remote nature. Hopefully people from all over the world will combine to create some really neat stuff.

People have already began sketching out project ideas over at the [hack day wiki page], and we encourage you to add any of your own ideas down - even if you can't make the hackday.

For more information about the hack day, and to help organise it, drop by the #musicbrainz IRC channel (link to IRC wiki doc).

We've never done this before, but we're really excited and hopefully it's going to be a blast. See you in a few weeks!