2014 Hackathon

Here's what we built:

This team took a stab at creating a new field type called, “Calculated”, which allows users to write simple math, logic, and string formulas that compute values between fields on a single entity. There are still a lot of performance and UX considerations to make before we’d release this, but this Hackathon project served as a killer proof of concept.
Project: Shotgun Archaeology 
Brandon


Brandon’s wife is an archaeologist, and he’s always wondered if Shotgun could be used to track all the work, and finds, from an archaeological dig. Using data from http://opencontext.org/ he mocked up the Areas, Trenches, Loci, and Artifacts catalogued from the Kenan Tepe site in Turkey. While not revolutionary with the data tracking, Brandon’s wife noted that Shotgun’s ability to assign and track work as it related to the site and artifacts would go a long way towards keeping everything better organized on a dig.



Project: Video Chat within Shotgun via Google Hangouts
Eric, François, Luc



This group created a way for users to launch Google Hangout collaborative review sessions from within Shotgun by clicking on newly inserted camera buttons throughout the site. Clicking the button launches a separate Google Hangout window for each user with an embedded view of Screening Room. Users can share webcams while they review shots together via the Google Hangout and can zoom, pan, resize their players as they’d like.

Project: Text Tool and Annotations in Context 
Xin


Xin's Text Tool and Annotations in Context project is an attempt at letting users view annotations in context of their media. For creating text annotations, a new text tool was added to write directly on the media. For viewing annotations, a feature was added to open annotations directly on the media while it’s playing. We liked this one so much that we'll be rolling it out to all Shotgun subscribers in a future patch!



Project: SGUIKit: Desktop style HTML/CSS Layout Engine for the web 
Owen


Owen looked at improving our ability to manage our expanding code base by building a desktop-style app UI layout engine to help with refactoring HTML, Javascript and CSS. As a proof of concept he rebuilt the new Tracking Settings UI using a basic implementation of the layout engine.


Project: Changing Hubot's litter box 
Philip
Philip spent time updating and upgrading our chatroom Hu Bot who helps us with everything from making it rain corgis to handling pager duty rotations and assisting in ticket resolution and site deployment. For our clients, this means more efficient team conversations for decreased turn-around times. And corgis.

Project: Sublime Text engine for Toolkit 
JF


JF focused on creating a generic Toolkit engine that uses XML-RPC as the communication channel between the DCC and Toolkitapps. The complete integration was done inside Sublime Text 3 and supports importing in ascii art versions of Photoshop files.