My plan for this weekend is to build an open source, web based, music player, and social radio. This may sound like a tall order, but we will have a working demo in two days and all of our work will happen on github for everyone to see. (https://github.com/comster/disco)
If you're a javascript hacker or frontend designer who's interested in building a better music app and social radio, join team disco.js!
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[For example of the radio feature, see turntable.fm .]
The technology stack is all javascript. Node.js, Mongodb, and Backbone.js are the weapons of choice. Obviously my goal is to meet and learn from hackers at the event, but this is also a chance for me to shamelessly plug my open source platform as a service framework that I'm putting together (https://github.com/comster/house). It's just a bunch of open source components put together to provide a basic app development platform. The goal is to minimize your dev time on the server, so that you can focus on the application experience. This weekend gives me a chance to prove it can support a complex app like disco.js, and to get feedback from other developers and hopefully improve the architecture.
I'm looking for hacker feedback! Thanks in advance :)