Venue

Where
Ex Machina, viale dei Faggi 9 - 6900 Lugano

When
Friday 10-feb-2012, from 6.15pm to 11.15pm

The Event

Hackergarten evening in Lugano

Hackergarten is an open source programming group from Basel. Our goal is to create something that others can use; whether it be working software, improved documentation, or better educational materials. Our intent is to end each meeting with a patch or similar contribution submitted to an open and public project. All skill levels are welcome to come and participate. If you are interested in coding then please come out and spend some time helping the community.

On Friday 10/2 we will run an Hackergarten meeting in Lugano. On that evening we plan to work on an open source Google Web Toolkit (GWT) app designed for mobile browsers. The app (project name Hackergarten Mobile) is a basic checkin app for events and it already has a GitHub repo with backend services all ready to deploy, and we need a mobile front end accessible from Android or iOS devices.

Therefore, if you can help or want to learn about GWT and mobile web then show up with your laptop with GWT and Eclipse or IDEA installed. It doesn't matter what level of skill you have, whether you are a GWT expert or have never seen it before. To register to the event please send an email to hackergarten@exmachina.ch with your name, town and company.

Leader/Facilitator

Hamlet D'Arcy, Sr. Java/Groovy Developer, Groovy and CodeNarc Committer

Hamlet D'Arcy has been writing software since the 90s, and has spent considerable time coding in Groovy, Java, and C++. He's passionate about learning new languages and different ways to think about problems. Hamlet is the founder of the Basel-based Hackergarten open source coding group, and regularly participates and speaks at local and international user groups and conferences. Hamlet is a committer on the Groovy and CodeNarc projects, and is a contributor on a few other open source projects (including IntelliJ IDEA and the IDEA Groovy Plugin). He blogs regularly at http://hamletdarcy.blogspot.com and can be found on Twitter as HamletDRC.

Sponsors

Canoo Engineering is the company of choice for Rich Internet Applications (RIA), linguistic morphology and word analysis systems. Thanks to over 12 years' experience constructing business applications and with some of the most experienced Java developers in Europe, it's no wonder Canoo Engineering is the preferred supplier to some of the world's leading organizations.

Ex Machina is a competence center for Open Source technologies, and one of the largest independent provider of high-quality IT services in Southern Switzerland. Founded in early 2005 in Lugano, Ex Machina provides its Clients with superior IT professional services, living up to the promises of a "Made in Switzerland" service standard. Through its relationships with technical Universities both in Switzerland and abroad, Ex Machina contributes to research in many fields of application of Open Source technology.