<a href="/"></a><span id="goog_1800597527"></span><span id="goog_1800597528"></span><div><img src="cid:ii_12b0e73b24e8d77b" alt="ep_fad_poster_x500.png" title="ep_fad_poster_x500.png"><br></div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large; ">Oct 8th starting 5pm - Oct 9th</span></div>
<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">We're holding a Hackathon / Fedora Activity Day at Olin College in Needham, MA!</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br>
</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Etherpad is open source software for teams to type together on the same document. </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Join a team of students, alumni, and Fedora Linux hackers as we improve Etherpad for ourselves and the world!</span></div>
<div><br></div><div>Cut to the chase: <b><a href="http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Etherpad_FAD">http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Etherpad_FAD</a></b></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><div>== What is EtherPad? ==</div><div>
Etherpad is pretty much the pinnacle of online, collaborative text editing. If you're not familiar with EtherPad, take a look at <a href="http://www.viddler.com/explore/aaroniba/videos/1/">this video</a>.</div><div><br>
</div><div><br></div><div>== Backstory ==</div><div>EtherPad was acquired by Google in 2008 and the code was open-sourced (yay!). Buuut the EtherPad code-base isn't exactly in a packageable state, as demonstrated by <a href="https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Etherpad">SDZ, here</a>. (SDZ is an Olin student!)</div>
<div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Thus we plan to:</div><div>* Repackage EtherPad in a consistent, portable way, more best-practice form</div><div>* Create compliant, Fedora packages for EtherPad</div><div>* Setup EtherPad instance on Fedora Infrastructure (infrastructure managers, sorry, quietly stop choking and shoot me an email so I can explain Fud + EtherPad = awesome and discuss how to go about that)</div>
<div>* Teach non-Propeller-heads about OSS development and the technologies used</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>== When? ==</div><div>** <b>Friday, October 8th - Saturday, October 9th</b> **</div><div><br></div>
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(and maybe early Sunday if we get some of the no-sleep crowd).</div><div>Dinner on Friday. Dinner and lunch Saturday.</div><div><br></div></div><div>Can attend in person? Remotely join us! <a href="https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Etherpad_FAD#I.27m_far_away_.2F_can.27t_physically_attend.2C_how_can_I_help.3F">See the wiki</a>.</div>
<div><br></div><div><br></div><div>== Us ? ==</div><div>Andy, Sebastian and I are Olin College students and long-time linux users, and total EtherPad fanboy. We would love to give back to all three of these communities and help people get involved in open source software.</div>
<div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Finally, there is generally just a lot of cool technical stuff inside EtherPad? Server-side-JS? Scala? Comet? Collaborative diffing? Web-service architecture? Your totally welcome to come and geek out on these topics, and maybe learn a thing or two about how EtherPad works.</div>
<div><br></div><div><br></div><div><div>Check us out on the wiki and twitter:</div><div><a href="https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Etherpad_FAD">https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Etherpad_FAD</a></div><div><a href="http://twitter.com/olinetherpadfad">http://twitter.com/olinetherpadfad</a></div>
<div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div>Colin, Sebastian, Andy<br>
</div><div><br></div><div><div>P.S. You've probably never heard of Olin College, but you should</div><div>totally look at the crazy higher-ed experiment we're running:</div><div><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olin_college">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olin_college</a></div>
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