by Tyna Callahan | Oct 24, 2016 | Meetups & Events
Judging was tough. According to Giorgio Regni, Scality’s CTO and one of the judges, the scores were very close in some cases. A weekend of long hours coding brought some great projects – and the teams did an admirable job presenting them to the judges and the crowd.
The S3 GUI Team
Here’s the winner roster:
S3 GUI took third place with their drag-and-drop GUI for S3 Server.
Boba Team developed an application to overcome Kinetic’s file size limitations, and won second prize.
42 took the top prize with their collaboration tool.
Congratulations to the winners, and to the other five teams that rolled-up their sleeves and developed great tools with the Scality S3 Server and Kinetic drives over the weekend.
by Tyna Callahan | Oct 23, 2016 | Stories
The F1 in this team’s name stands for Formula One, because the project is all about the race. The S3 F1 team is Racing Scality S3 Server against AWS S3 Server, blasting commands to both servers to see which is faster, and developing a way to display the results visually. The project could ultimately be used as a performance monitor, or as a marketing tool that demonstrates performance.
This team is heavily Scality/Holberton; 3 teammates are Scality employees, and 3 are or were Holberton students.
Team S3 F1
Bennett Buchanan is both: a Holberton student and a Scality employee. A D.C.-area native, Bennett came to the Holberton School after developing an interest in coding while working at a non-profit in Berkeley.
Dora Korpar is another team member with both a Holberton and a Scality connection. She has a degree in Biology, and was living in Minnesota and working at Trader Joe’s while trying to decide what direction to head in next when she came upon an article about the Holberton School, so applied on a whim.
Nicolas Humbert is from France. He came to the U.S. and worked for a company in Berkeley for a while, but wasn’t happy there. He was thinking of going back to France when he found Scality (a little bit of France in San Francisco). It was perfect—he really wanted to do back-end development.
Ian Liu-Johnston is just 3 weeks into his education at Holberton. Video brought him to software. Before coming to Holberton, he earned a degree in digital electronic art and video editing, and worked as a video editor for a non-profit.
Shivaji Vidhale is on-call this weekend, so in and out. He’s a site reliability engineer at Apcera who did his studies at North Carolina State University. He wanted to do a Hackathon, so Googled Hackathon and found this one.
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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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