Where Are You? - put you and your tablemates' location here!
The Big List of Hacks - what are you working on? Put it here!
Ask technical questions for your hack - need an answer? have an answer?

In an effort to cut off the massive flow of "I'm attending, want to make a team" traffic that I've already contributed to - and because there seems to be no other official discussion routes! - I've set up this strictly unofficial wiki for Hack Day. Please be bold in updating, and tell folks about it; although hopefully something more official will come along eventually! -- Tom Scott I've set up an unofficial forum now too -- Peter Cooper. Skype Public Chat channel. IRC? - Yes: chat.freenode.net #hackdaylondon -- John Billings

Got questions or answers? Check the FAQ on the right sidebar! Questions without answers right now: Food and drink? - Parking facilities / price ?

Useful Info

The Official Hack Day Backnetwork
Official Hack Day Page
Getting to Alexandra Palace
Upcoming event details
Small print terms and conditions (PDF)
Unofficial Hack Day Forum - HackDayForum.com
Flickr Bean Bag group
BBC Vision will be bringing a bunch of data for your enjoyment - see the Notes, Get the data

Forming Teams, Alliances, Guilds or Loose Associations of People

Nothing concrete, nothing required, but if you want to arrive at Hack Day knowing there's people nearby that you can collaborate with, or ask about that tricky problem, put your name down here. If teams start discussing with each other, spin off a separate page.

Can anyone think of a better way of organising this? We have people listed by specialty (sometimes in multiple sections), with freetext about interests. Is there any more efficient way of doing it? Alphabetical Attendees list (the new 'back network' does this for us now..)

• Perhaps we can have a section where we list ideas of things we want to work on with links to new pages where people can brainstorm the ideas and list themselves. I'll list stuff (Tom Morris)

• I'm quite interested in having a small brainstorming group (not necessarily an actual team - though that might come out of it) so we can all fill up with brain candy and then possibly make teams or compete, etc.. better than going in without inspiration and also means some of us would at least know each other :) (Peter Cooper)

Ideas

Spin off a page if your idea needs space.

• Mashups between anything, and AMEE - our new Carbon/CO2 data API blog - mail gavin starks (gavin -at- dgen.net) for key
• An API to get train times in a usable way (Tom Morris) | Portable to mobile phone (web/j2me?) (Andy Millar)
• A funky mashup of all attendees photos, blogs, Twitters, etc - great way to meet everyone! (Peter Cooper) seeAlso Enhanced-Presence and Skype meets Twittervision.
• Perhaps related, I am thinking of doing a Plazes/Yahoo/BBC hack. (LanceW)
• Interactive Fiction/storytelling using available APIs or creating new ones. (Kate Bolin)
• If anyone's interested in building Flash mashups, hit me up. I'm going to be doing Flash mobile and web mashups with Twitter and/or Flickr with a new data exchange format for flash called SWX. Basically, it's like JSON for Flash (only think, pre-evalled JSON!) - Aral Balkan (my first name at my full name dot com) blog :)
• I'm interested in contacting the person above who mentions flash mashups but not their name or contact - email me! - I have an idea involving Twitter API and flash.

• Olivier ze kat: I aware to share my stuff used to create some screensavers around Yahoo! universe... I build my own platform (VB6 source code) which display any Flash movie. See "Goodies" files on Y!MPlus SourceForge project. Interested to enhance my "Jump Jump Liam" screensaver to display last mail we received (require BBAuth & Mail API).
• Olivier ze kat: I plan build "My Yahoo! Reader" which re-use my LifeLine experiment (to mark items as read, and tags engine). This tool could display news from feeds we setup into My Yahoo!, adding Yahoo! & BBC headline news, and (perhaps) last recents mail we received.
• Olivier ze kat: build an API which give (as RSS feed or JSON) our last blast from Yahoo! 360, or status from Messenger... I don't understand why this API is not officialy exists !
• Chris Adams: I'm interested in working out what a wifi cloud 'should sound like' to walkthrough. Specifically, finding a way to announce the presence of wifi networks musically, by converting their SSID's into melodies that could play on a wifi enabled mobile device like. Anyone else interested in what their wifi network's theme song is?
• MyBlogLog team: Hey everyone! Sorry we couldn't make it to London but we wanted y'all to know that we just pushed out our APIs for this weekend's fun. api.mybloglog.com is visible from within the hackday network for you. If you have any questions, feel free to send an email to the developer, Chris Goffinet email, or product manager, Ian Kennedy email
• Jim Purbrick: Second Life Mashups (a general purpose XML to CSV service which allowed memory constrained (16K!) Second Life scripts to access arbitrary APIs would be very handy) Win an island in Second Life for a month!

Specialities, skills and interests

Accessibility

Jonathan Chetwynd mail demo (nightlies only need apply ~:")
Martin Sarsini email web
Kate Bolin email web
Ann McMeekin email work blog (would love to see something come out of hackday that's cool, useful, usable *and* accessible - hoping that's not too pie in the sky an idea)
Darren West

Perl

Leon Brocard email web
Dave Cross email web
Kake Pugh email web (possibly interested in doing something craft or cookery related)
Adam Cohen-Rose email web (a little rusty)
Shevek email web
Dominic Cleal - email
Amias Channer -email web
Josh Clark - email blog
Gerv email web
Greg Mccarroll email web blog
Ben Smith
Paul Tweedy email
Leo Lapworth email web

PHP

Tom Scott email web - interested in making entertaining stuff like games, or mobile apps
Tom Morris mail blog
Bruno Pedro blog
Gareth Rushgrove email web
Nuno Loureiro blog
Celso Martinho blog
Alistair Macdonald email blog
Rob Young mail blog
Ian Moss contact web web
Julian Bond contact,web,blog Proposed Hacks = Enhanced-Presence
John Billings contact, latest project
Olivier D. (alias ze kat) LifeLine
Dominic Cleal - email
Marcus Bointon mail web
OsdeInfo web
Pierre Andrews web
Andy Millar blog email

.NET

Simon Harriyott mail blog
Chris Riley email web but I only know a few bits related to XML stuff.
Thom Shannon
Derek Fowler
Michael James
Per Ploug Hansen
Chris Alcock
Ben Hall blog mail

Ruby (on Rails)

Frankie Roberto blog (although relatively new to it)
James Cox blog which i should update
Fred Oliveira web
James Darling web
Peter Cooper Ruby Inside or personal blog
Werner Ramaekers www.werner.be
James Adam interblah.net
Nathan Fisher mail
Matt Westcott blog
Patrick Sinclair www blog
Ben Smith
Geir Freysson blog Walletproof (my rails app)
Erin Staniland mail www
Paul Battley mail www
Julian Burgess [http://blog.altrulist.org.uk]

Flash and Flex

Niqui Merret mail blog
Robin Harrison mail blog - Flex 2, not Flash
Martin Kleppe mail blog
Aral Balkan (my first name at my full name dot com) blog
Kelvin Luck blog
Olivier D. (alias ze kat) LifeLine, only for design
Juan Delgado - Zárate blog

CSS / XHTML

Caz Mockett mail blog
Martin Kleppe mail blog
Chris Riley email web
Kake Pugh email web (I'm mostly a Perl person, but I know a bit about CSS and can help with stuff if nobody more experienced is available at the time)
Martin Sarsini email web (already have some ideas about something cool, but also open to every project)
Fred Oliveira [mailto:fredatweberakstuff.com|email] web
Kate Bolin email web
James Darling web
Robert Lee-Cann mail
Alex Robinson email web
Otu Ekanem email web
Nathan Fisher mail
Ann McMeekin email work blog
Paul Money email web if you're not hand-coding, you're not using xhtml/css
Olivier D. (alias ze kat) LifeLine
Amias Channer -email web
Marcus Bointon mail web Standards Nazi
Josh Clark - email blog
Sheila Thomson mail
Darren West
Gerv email web
Alastair Tse web

XML, XSL and schemata (etc.)

Tom Morris mail blog
Chris Riley email web mainly basic XSL, but I get by.
Ian Forrester blog
Otu Ekanem email web
Adam Cohen-Rose email web
Nathan Fisher mail basic xsl
Jonathan Powell mail blog (wants to use Cocoon/XUL)
Andrew Savory mail blog (Cocoon committer)
Olivier D. (alias ze kat) LifeLine, RSS gourou
Amias Channer -email web
Sheila Thomson mail
Ben Smith

SVG

Jonathan Chetwynd mail demo (nightlies only need apply ~:")
Ian Forrester blog
Andrew Savory mail blog
Dave Crossland app (Talk to me about SVG Fonts!)
Paul Money email web I heart inkscape. Want to do more with the language

JavaScript and Ajax

Chris Riley email web
Gareth Rushgrove email web
Fred Oliveira web
Celso Martinho blog
Carlo Bongiovanni mail skype - also DOM and XUL
Martin Kleppe mail blog
Peter Cooper homepage
Stuart Langridge blog
Otu Ekanem email web
Jonathan Powell mail blog
Dave Crossland app (Talk to me about Canvas!)
Olivier D. (alias ze kat) LifeLine
Amias Channer -email web
Matt Westcott blog
Josh Clark - email blog (I maintain the prototype.js PDF docs)
Darren West
Pierre Andrews web
Alastair Tse web

Python

Graeme Sutherland email web - thinking maybe RSS, APML kind of stuff.
Otu Ekanem email web
Uldis Bojārs mail blog foaf
Gareth Rushgrove email web
Rob Young mail blog
Stuart Langridge blog
Dave Crossland app (Talk to me about Trac!)
Dominic Cleal - email
Etienne Posthumus email
Alastair Tse (+ Django) web

Python for s60 mobiles

Daniel Remeseiro blog
Angel Gonzalo blog
Alastair Tse (Interested, but inexperienced) web

Java

Shevek email web
Pierre Andrews web

Geodata

Ed Freyfogle - blog
Alistair Macdonald email blog (especially GPS and maps related)
Alastair Tse web
Tim Waters blog

Graphic Design, Multimedia Content

Caz Mockett mail blog
Dominic Edmunds [mailto:dominic.edmunds.(replaceme).lbi.com|mail] web - would love to add that little visual touch
Robert Lee-Cann mail
Dave Crossland app (Talk to me about fonts!)
Paul Money email web I esp. like drawing icons and information graphics. Clear presentation is fun to do!
Olivier D. (alias ze kat) LifeLine, love Yahoo!'s graphic's style
Marcus Bointon mail web QuickTime VR & scripting
Tristan Spill web iPhone webapps perhaps?

Semantic Web

Tom Morris mail blog
Uldis Bojārs mail blog foaf
Ian Forrester blog
Andrew Savory mail blog
Patrick Sinclair www blog

Usability / User Experience

Caz Mockett mail blog
Stuart Langridge blog
Adam Cohen-Rose email web (especially for cut-down UIs like mobile or widgets)
Ann McMeekin email work blog
Daniel Harris mail web - tuning the experience
Andy Braxton mail web - anyone interested in doing a Twitter API project? I have an idea and its as hot as my pants.
Paul Money email web hmmm taskflow
Olivier D. (alias ze kat) LifeLine
Sheila Thomson mail
Darren West
Bersi Kueper mail
Gerv email web

Microformats

Gareth Rushgrove email web
Tom Morris mail blog
Fred Oliveira web
Werner Ramaekers www.werner.be
Adam Cohen-Rose email web (interested but not expert)
Josh Clark email blog (interested in hacking in this area; intrigued by machine tags)
Etienne Posthumus email Planning on doing some machine tag goodness during Hackday.

Mashups & Remix

Celso Martinho blog
Dave Crossland app (Talk to me about distributed versioning systems!)
Olivier D. (alias ze kat) LifeLine

Arduino based hardware hax0ring

James Cox blog - want to try and build something physically useful and / or fun
James Darling web - similar
Massimo Banzi blog - co-founder of Arduino is there

Music/MIDI

James Darling web - basic knowledge, but always looking for fun in this area
Paul Money email web also pure-data.
Amias Channer -email web - concepts but not so much with the code
Marcus Bointon mail web Up for anything
Gavin Starks web mail gavin@

VVVV

David Bausola Blog Payola Doorbell - Openly keen on the cinematic realisation of data

Mobile Stuff (SMS, WAP, XHTML-MP, JavaME etc)

Adam Cohen-Rose email web
Tom Scott email web - interested in making entertaining stuff like games, or mobile apps
Matt Wakeman email - Deeply enbedded within the mobile industry, keen to explore mashups in the mobile space. An expert on mobile operating systems.
Daniel Harris mail web - keen to explore mobile photography / viewfinder applications (big on mobile experience, small on tech expertise, sorry!)
Olivier D. (alias ze kat) LifeLine, XHTML-MP only
Alastair Tse web

Security and Protection Systems (design, implementation, analysis)

Shevek email web

Social networking

Olivier D. (alias ze kat) LifeLine
OsdeInfo web

Free Software/Open Source Software

Olivier D. (alias ze kat) LifeLine
Amias Channer -email web - anything linux
Peter Cooper homepage
Gerv email web
OsdeInfo web

MySQL

OsdeInfo web
Ben Smith
Andy Millar blog email

Apache

Andy Millar blog email
OsdeInfo web

Visual artist- photo/film/stop frame animation

Harriet Poole mail web- some initial thoughts to add visual interplay to projects- fusing high + low tech- suitcase /robot pinhole + digital photography/film, multimedia + old school projections - try me :)
Paul Money email web I studied photography and art. I should use these skills more...

RSS / Atom / Feed Technologies

Peter Cooper homepage

Greasemonkey

Pierre Andrews web

C++

Graham McNeil-Watson "bull" incl. cgi/LAMP and 3D.

Second Life

Jim Purbrick (Babbage Linden) email Talk to me about Second Life mashups or come to my Second Life meets the web talk at 2:30PM by the sofas.

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