EAST Hackathon – API’s for Art

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  EAST Hackathon APIs for Art

• Calling Austin software developers! If you have
  enjoyed attending the EAST Studio Tour (or other
  studio tours around the country) here is your
  chance to give back. For two days over the
  weekend of February 15th, 2014, well be hosting
  a hackathon at the Go Lab co-work space in
  downtown Austin to build a mobile app to help
  artists list their works sso authentication, and
  help people more effectively share the works with
  their network of art-appreciating friends and
  family around the globe.
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• A mobile app would solve a few problems. Austins
  communities of artists make our city a much more
  inspiring and fun place to live. But
  unfortunately, Austins population of artists
  probably exceeds the size of the art-buying
  market. A mobile app that enabled people to tweet
  photos of art out to their network could help
  artists reach a larger market of potential
  buyers.

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Another benefit of a mobile app is to enable
artists in out-of-the-way locations to get their
work seen by more peopleleveraging the people
who make the effort to see individual studios
that are not in an art-studio Mecca.   The goal
of the hackathon is to create a mobile app. Extra
points for a cross browser solution (Cordova
hint, hint) or perhaps an HTML5 application. The
APIs and sample data will be provided to the app
developers (more detail to be posted here soon).
The registration / active directory single sign
on will also be given.   App Details   We will
list the APIs and sample data for programmers on
this website. User registration and
authentication APIs will also be a given. App
Requirements   1. Interface for artist to take a
photo of the artwork, enter summary info, and
upload 2. An EAST attendee can find an artist by
searching or by entering the site number 3.
after finding a specific art work, the attendee
can push the artwork to her social networks
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4. the app should be able to generate a QR code,
which the artist can print and affix next to
their art to facilitate people posting the
artwork.  Event Rules   Hack like a true hacker
use any tools, tricks, frameworks you wish to
speed things up! Developers must be willing to
open source their code. We are hoping that this
code can be used by other cities that want to
launch their own artist studio tour app. Up to
four hackers per team Have fun, this is all about
the experience The Go Lab is the HQ for
programming. When you want a break for a beer or
ping pong, we can show you the secret passage to
Easy Tiger which is a hop, skip and a jump
away.   Whats next?   If were able to show a
good design for an app, hopefully well be able
to help east publish the required APIs so they
can support a community built app. Perhaps a
Crowd Tilt to finish the rest of the code and
launch the app in time for East in November
2014?   Article resource-http//thegluuserver.liv
ejournal.com/5324.html