by Tyna Callahan | Oct 23, 2016 | Meetups & Events
Team 42 came to the Hackathon to build a Scality S3 Server-based collaboration tool. Its web-based interface enables administrators to set roles and rights for shared projects, and sends notifications by email and text when a shared task progresses, that is, when someone pushes something on S3 Server. They’ve had issues with other tools—that was their inspiration.
Team 42
All three of the members of Team 42 came to the Silicon Valley from France to start-up the first U.S. branch of the Paris-based 42 in Fremont.
Henri Dumas completed a bachelor’s degree in law before joining 42. After one year at 42, he went to business school. He’s here in the Bay Area now for six months, doing an internship. He learned about this Hackathon when he was at a Scality bootcamp in Paris.
Antoine Bungert graduated from business school in Paris last year, then started 42 after working for 6 months in Africa. He’s excited to be one of the students selected to be in the first class of the U.S.-based 42.
Lou Guenier, who had to head to Paris, so is not in the photo, has been working for 42 for a couple of years. He holds the role of pedagogical director for the Fremont school.
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by Tyna Callahan | Oct 23, 2016 | Meetups & Events
Facebook is shutting down Parse, so Team Git2S3 is using Scality S3 Server to create a private hosting alternative for the systems that will have to migrate from Parse. Other alternatives exist, but there is no alternative now for private hosting. Alex Bourne and Rauhmel Fox are using S3 Server and Seagate Kinetic drives to set up a secure private hosting server with encryption.
Team Git2S3
Alex Bourne is an exchange student from Australia, studying at San Francisco State University. He’s making the most of his time in San Francisco, scanning Eventbrite for Hackathons every Sunday to plan out his week. That’s how he found this one. An entrepreneur in addition to being a student, he has a web-based real estate transaction facilitation business: eEstate.co.
Alex met Rauhmel Fox at a Hackathon last week. The team worked, so they came to this one together. Rauhmel is missing from the photo because he stepped-out: he’s doing two simultaneous Hackathons this weekend.
by Tyna Callahan | Oct 23, 2016 | Meetups & Events
Team Hatch&&Batch decided to help those that come later to better understand the Scality S3 Server and what it can do. They call the project GUI & Data Visualization. Said Holden Grissett, one of the team of five, “We are very green programmers, so we decided to build a GUI that gives a demo and Tutorial of the S3 Server.”
This team’s members are all students at the Holberton School who started just three weeks ago. None has ever been to a Hackathon before, but all of them are enthusiastic about making something useful—and usable. Their project is an interactive demo that shows Create, Read, Update and Delete of files and onjects in buckets, and of the buckets themselves.
Team Hatch&&Batch
Holden Grissett lived in Palm Springs before coming to San Francisco to start the program at the Holberton School three weeks ago. Working as an A/V Tech, he took some time off before coming to San Francisco to hike and enjoy the outdoors.
Justin Marsh was working on self-study to learn programming when he came across the Holberton School online. He lived in Mexico, and mixed that self-study with travel and playing poker.
The team says Walton Lee is their most experienced coder. Walton hasn’t done a hackathon before, but he learned of the school through an email newsletter, Code Project. He had been studying Biology, but after spending time shadowing a surgeon, realized that wasn’t for him, so he started “playing around” with programming in HTML. Working as a firmware integration engineer at Tesla, that interest intensified as he developed an interest in how tech is applied in autos.
Philip Yoo did attend a development bootcamp in SF and learned some web development. He dabbled in Ruby before that. Bootcamp was good, but left him wanting to learn more; so he enrolled at Holberton.
Jay Wang was a Civil Engineering student in NY, had a friend who did a programming boot camp. She doesn’t have a coding background, but she’s interested, and came today to see what a hackathon was like.
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by Tyna Callahan | Oct 22, 2016 | Meetups & Events
The S3 GUI team is building a standalone app as a GUI front-end to Scality storage on Kinetic. They’re writing a drag-and-drop User interface using JavaScript, Electron and React so that people can interact directly with the storage without having to use a command line interface.
The S3 GUI Team
Team member Andy Chen goes to every single Hackathon in in the bay area: he’s been to 14 or 15 this year so far. He knows S3, so this one was especially attractive to him. this. A junior at Berkeley, Andy’s pretty good at the Hackathon game: he’s won 5 just this year. And, so far this year, those wins have earned him approximately $20k in scholarship money, Uber credits and other prizes.
His teammate, Alex Davis is an entrepreneur. Alex chose to join this hackathon as a learning experience, and to give himself a break from the intense project he’s been working on for his business. He uses AWS S3, and finds it frustrating that he has to be online to use it. The fact that he can work offline with the Scality S3 Server is a great help to him, so he wanted to get to know this tool because it will help in his work. He was also impressed that Scality has a JavaScript interface to the Seagate Kinetic drives.
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by Tyna Callahan | Oct 22, 2016 | Meetups & Events
Boba Team wanted to explore what the Kinetic implementation of Scality S3 Server did, and what limitations it has…and then develop a way to overcome those limitations. They found that Kinetic drives can’t store objects bigger than 1MB, so they are developing a program that breaks up objects into smaller chunks (and reconstitutes them on retrieval) so that larger objects can be stored.
Boba Team
Boba Team is made up of Holberton students Electra Chong, her twin sister Rona Chong and Daniel Alzugaray. This is the first Hackathon for all of them, outside of the Commando Hackathons that the school puts on for its students.
Electra knew about the hackathon before she began working at Scality three weeks ago, but she loves the idea of coming back to the school as a Scality employee, interacting with fellow students and colleagues. Rona decided to do the hackathon to build skills and expertise, meet people and learn more about the Scality S3 Server that her sister works on. This is her first experience examining source code in depth. Daniel learned about it through the school and his friends. New to the area, Daniel came here from New York to go to the Holberton school, and he’s here to stay.
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by Tyna Callahan | Oct 22, 2016 | Meetups & Events
Immutables Team
The Immutables team is deep into design discussions, as they work to build a relational database on top of content-addressable immutable objects with the Scality S3 Server. Team lead Ignacio (Nacho) Corderi is huddled with Marc Segura and Michael McThrow to build this ambitious extension. Nacho, who was on the original Kinetic team at Seagate, came by to see friends here on Friday night, then got caught up in the wave of enthusiasm and joined the Hackathon. Nacho is a graduate student at UC Santa Cruz, and an engineer at Exablox. Michael McThrow, also a graduate student at UC Santa Cruz, signed up for the Hackathon on the recommendation of a friend and professor at the school. He came for the practice and the contacts, as he’s looking for his next gig. Marc is on the S3 Server team at Scality.
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