[Chicago] aaronsw memorial hackathon documentation

[sheila miguez]

On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 11:59 AM, Sean Farley
<sean.michael.farley at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 9:40 AM, sheila miguez <shekay at pobox.com> wrote:
[...]
>> I have a gist where I've collected ideas for a hacknight.
>>
>> https://gist.github.com/4596404
>>
>> I might have some more organized assistance for open science related
>> projects due to another mailing list I'm on.
>>
>> Specifically, a member on that list is with Mendeley and can provide
>> guidance on open source projects that use their APIs. I've sent him an email
>> about some of the repos in their github account to check which projects
>> might have more need of hacking than others. hopefully they'll have a chance
>> to get back with me on that. I have an ACK already.
>
> Oooo, that sounds really interesting to me. Please let me know more about this.

I'll be updating about it on the gist when I learn more. For the
moment I know about their git repo and their dev portal. In the email
I asked if he knew whether his devs had any high priority requests. He
said he would be talking to them and getting back to me.

https://github.com/Mendeley
http://apidocs.mendeley.com/

I have mixed feelings about Mendeley due to the possible buy out by
Elsevier. Maybe it is akin to how people feel when google buys a
company? On the other hand, a lot of scientists use the tool and I
would like to help the population of scientists. And, if devs in
Mendeley have requests and are willing to talk to me, I appreciate
that and it would help for a hack night. And, they do have open source
tools that interact with their api.


-- 
sheila