Goodiff Hackathon

Alexandre Dulaunoy, one of the author (along with Michael G. Noll) of GooDiff wants to share a day with some coders (and non-coders), to explore new ideas for http://www.goodiff.org/ and related document tracking. Every ideas, contribution is welcome... forking is also very welcome ;-)

A first version of the software (along with the dataset) will be released during VJ12. That's a good opportunity to see what's possible in the future.

GooDiff development at gitorious.org : http://www.gitorious.org/goodiff (feel free to clone for the Hackathon).

practically

Alexandre is in brussels, on invitation of Constant VZW (http://constantvzw.org artists organisation in brussels), for the Verbinding/Jonctions festival (12th edition).

@VJ12 Brussels (Sunday 29th November 2009)

An overall presentation (including political aspect) of GooDiff will be done during Verbindingen/Jonctions 12, the Sunday 29th November 2009 around 15:30 (Zennestraat 17 Rue de la Senne) http://www.constantvzw.org/vj12/spip.php?page=list&id_rubrique=33 .

@hackerspace Brussels (Saturday 28th November 2009)

• Saturday 28th November 2009 - from 14:00 until 19:00(?) during ForkFest09

(minimal) structure of the Hackathon

• Hacking introduction to GooDiff (a presentation similar to VJ12 but focusing on the technical aspect and issues to monitor documents on Internet).
• Working on ideas (see below).

Hackathon : ideas

• [everyone including non coders] - updating or providing new URLs of legal documents especially for Web 2.0 services --> to be included in the GooDiff providers.xml
• Can we extract legal text from "Le Moniteur Belge/Belgish Staatsblad" and monitor them? http://www.ejustice.just.fgov.be/cgi/welcome.pl .
• [coding] - improving back-end support to be independent from Subversion.
• [coding/visualization] - analysing existing dataset to see the distance between the legal text and trying to visualize them.
• [everyone]... add your own.

Notes

wendy (constant) proposed a Hackathon Sat 28th - Sun 29th of November

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