CAMP Monsoon of Code
May 15, 2009 - July 31, 2009
Over the next 4 months, CAMP will begin working on a number of coding / website projects. For all of these, we invite collaborations, and programmers looking for challenging contexts.
The projects include,
but are not limited to:
1> India Theatre Forum: Working with Prithvi Theatre and the
India Theatre Forum, the endeavour is to create a network / platform
for theatre professionals across the country. Alongwith aiming to
re-evaluate a number of 'web 2.0', and 'social
networking' features, the challenge is to translate these concepts into
practical and usable frame-works. This will include experimenting with
SMS and phone-based communication. Technologies we we will use are
Python, Django - Pinax, jQuery / Javascript, and SMS.
2> Edgware Road. A website that organises ongoing research via its backend, and then publishes quarterly a set of
"documents", which are produced and edited by people on the Edgware Road, a
mixed arab/iranian/kurdish/asian/other neighbourhood in london. The
website also is an experiment with online layouting/ design, and "print from web"
technologies for things like posters, printed placemats and a magazine.
3> Working with architects and researchers from CRIT (http://crit.org.in),
this project will put online, in its first phase, detailed data
collected by CRIT for the Vasai-Virar region in Mumbai - heritage
structures, ecological zones, village boundaries, roads, etc. In it's
second phase, if all goes well, the interface would be extended to be a
public interface for all of Mumbai. Technologies we would be working with include Python, Geodjango, PostGIS and OpenLayers.
4> Inventory: Over the years, CAMPers have accumulated a lot of stuff- kilometres of cable, tiny connectors of all sorts, microcontrollers, audio, video and projection equipment, bookshelves about art, programming, film, hundreds of DV tapes, terabytes of data on hard-drives... This project is, first, to index this range of
'things' into a common searchable database, so we don't spend half our
lives looking for things :-). Second, it is to explore ways in which
this index and its material can be presented as a public "library", in
which a number of forms of
distribution may be possible: exchange, lending, copying, buying, etc. Further, to explore similar possibilities for other people /
groups with collections of material, of any type. The Internet of Things, revisited.
Code
We are using bzr (bazaar) as our versioning tool.
You can get the code at http://code.camputer.org
(more details and random notes soon ... )
- python based web framework (for perfectionists with deadlines)
- GeoDjango - a world class geographic web framework
- jQuery - the write less, do more javascript library
- our code repositories
- OpenLayers - Free Maps for the Web
- Pinax: A collection of reusable Django apps.
- RapidSMS - a Free and Open Source framework for developing short message-based applications.
