camp bulletin board

[ghost]

We should go back to basics and run a bbs on the local network. It could work as a webapp and over telnet/netcat/curl. The bulletin board could serve several combined purposes:

• aggregate nodeschool solutions project euler style where you can see everybody's passing solutions only after you've completed that level and you can also discuss your solution
• live feed of workshopper completion events and other bbs activity. This is like saying "woo" but loud enough that the whole camp can hear it.
• file upload. PUT / GET for sharing files on the local network in a pinch.
• chat. something simple
• local git hosting using git-http-backend
• local app deployment using @maxogden's taco?

I have some additional surprise features in mind that I am still percolating over. They involve module authorship and coordination.

Can we get a list of github usernames as part of the registration process? I can scrape the data from https://github.com/$USER.keys to fetch everybody's public keys and we can use that for bbs authentication. Or we can ask for public keys explicitly.

More infrastructure that will make this work even better: dedicated screens that will show the bbs dashboard view.

I see this bbs as augmenting and facilitating in-person interaction, not supplanting it. When everybody is wearing lanyrds and you recognize somebody's name from something memorable on the camp activity feed you are more likely to go over and strike up a conversation and start planning the next revolution.

[rvagg]

yes! this!

[mikeal]

this would be an awesome project, I'd like to see one running at every conference :)

might want to use some simple p2p protocol for connecting the workshopper client so that it just works when this is on the local network but the workshoppers still work fine at home.

we'll also need to factor in these requirements in the local session network setup.