Hack Night; What do you want to work on?

[scottdennis]

Hack Night is an event where programmers, engineers, LMS admins, instructional designers, teachers and anyone else interested in hacking Canvas and Canvas courses come together to hack the APIs, course design, apps, bugs and anything else they want to work on together.  Some conversations and questions are more technical in nature than others but everyone is welcome.  This year Hack Night will happen in the same place and time as last year - Shivano/Red Cloud on Wednesday, starting at 8 PM.  The format is that anyone can suggest a topic for any conversation/table. 

Last year we had table top mini posters with suggested topics designed to be people started.  They were:

course templates

writing good course objectives

writing good rubrics (alignment)

RCE; Beyond the Basics

Fun and effective embeddable tools

Tips for large classes

Teaching in the lab w/ Canvas

What is in your onboarding course?

CSS customization to add personal style to Canvas

JavaScript tricks super charge your course

API's to speed up your daily tasks

What can I do with CSS & JavaScipt?

How could I make Canvas do X?

It seems like many people are interested in learning more about what can be accomplished with APIs.  Other people come with specific javascript questions or 'In language X, how do I get Canvas to do Y'  Another idea would be to have a Getting Started with programming station.  Canvas engineers have historically just filtered out to various round tables.  One suggestion this year was to have some of them sit at square tables that people who have technical questions can queue up in front of.

 What do you think about all of this? Do do you want to work on this year?

[kenneth_rogers]

Hey  @scottdennis   ...  Thank You so much for organizing all of this! I have stayed quiet throughout the conversation because, as some others have mentioned on here, I'm a bit of a lurker at hack night. I love just walking around and seeing everyone collaborating and working so hard together.

So - thanks again, sir. It's going to be reallllly good!

[scottdennis]

Thank you Kenneth.  Its going to be a great year!

[millerjm]

Canvas data. 

[mjennings]

 @scottdennis ,

Hey you mention that it is going to be in Shavano/Red Cloud in the Conference Center but the Instcon App says it is in Warren Station. I just wanted to check to make sure there is no confusion since there is a chance that the people that miss out on the greatness of the community might go to the wrong place.

[scottdennis]

Hey  @mjennings ,

Thanks for the heads up.  I'll let the Events team know.  There was some confusion initially about Red Cloud vs Warren Station and apparently the app never got updated. 

[scottdennis]

OK, should be updated now.  Thanks again.

[ldix]

Hi 

Can we have a virtual Hack night or Day sometime?

I would be so totally into that!

[scottdennis]

 @ldix ,

We are discussing this very idea!

[dgrobani]

At last year's Hack Night I freelanced and set up my own Python sign on one of the tables. A good number of people joined over the course of the evening and there was some great resource-sharing. I encourage anyone who's interested in a topic but doesn't see a sign for it to create their own.

[scottdennis]

Yep, that is very much the goal.  Thank you.  I hope you'll be back this year.  Hack Night is designed to be sort of like an unconference in that it is a free for all.  You should find blank card stock at every table and pens for making your own signs

[tyler_clair]

I have had it in the back of my mind to try a "X days/weeks/months of code/content" challenge and share it with the community. The premise is to start off with a short time period and create something everyday (or interval that fits for you) and share it with the community. Once you have hit that goal increase the amount of time or interval and continue the process and go for as long as you want. This not limited to code but could also include Canvas content, templates, community content, etc. I seem to keep building small adhoc python scripts to automate the boring stuff using the Canvas API or Canvas Data almost on a daily basis and I want to try to share it with everyone.

[Jeff_F]

Sharing is caring!  

[kona]

@mrsvietti, someone from the Community had a room to share and has reached out to you on Twitter about it. Hope it works out!!

Kona

[Stef_retired]

@mrsvietti‌, please continue the conversation at https://community.canvaslms.com/thread/24466-still-need-lodging-for-instructurecon-2018 

[balla]

Canvas Data. Particularly what others have learned about the details of fields within Canvas Data that are not explained either fully or clearly in the documentation. Also, examples of reporting or analysis that others are doing based on Canvas Data.