The Hacker Within, Wisconsin Reboot
A group of about 20 interested people answered the call to contribute to a reboot of the founding Hacker Within chapter at U. Wisconsin-Madison. The most important decision that we made was to meet again. More specfiically, to meet on Friday, January 30, at 12 noon… and hopefully every 2 weeks there after.
The plan for that first meeting, now scheduled for ME2188, is to provide a brief overview of the Jekyll markup system for Github pages, facilitating others being able to contribute in the future. That subject is now at risk.
We did, however, identify a number of topics for future meetings.
We were able to brainstorm a fairly extensive list of topics. Two important observations:
- The list of those committed to giving presentations is severely lacking student contributions. This effort will only succeed if students are willing to share their own experiences. It is not a course: it is a community of peers who are learning from each other.
- The list of topics is NOT closed. If you have an idea that you are interested in - or even better, interested in presenting! - then please feel free to add it to the list.
Those with potential presenters
- “Dangers of dynamic web content” - Michelle Craft
- “Reproducible Linux environment” - Paul Wilson
- “Stackedit.io” - Jean-Yves Sgro
- “Intro to Latex” - Meghan McGarry
- “Hobby Hacks/Web Server Tricks” - Robert Carlsen
==================================== Topics without identified presenters =====================================
- Software distribution practices
- Managing multiple python versions
- cloud options
- Different dev environments: Charm, ipython, spyder, etc. - comparison or orientation
- How to sell version control (or software) to collaborators
- SQL
- Keyboard shortcuts
- SSH voodoo (ssh tunnels, etc.)
- “Religious” battles: text editors, presentation SW, version control SW, website creation,
- Using VMs, containers (docker)
- Web page creation (knitr, sphinx)
- Self-marketing (making a personal website)
- GPUs and CUDA
- Julia
- Useful Libraries (esp. for visualization): pandas, matplotlib, ggplot2, open_gl, etc.
- make, cmake, scons
- Licenses: open source
- Strategic search hacks
- large scale computing