Hackathon four: the more the merrier

The "Community" Edition

During this hackathon we are lucky to have some external friends and family at edX HQ. The best way to make friends is to hack on projects, so that's just what we're doing. We count among our friends this time:

• Part of the Stanford team
• ...

Why this would be useful

• Learn about parts of the codebase that we rarely touch
• Work with people we don't get to normally
• Want to get something done outside of the sprint
• Brainstorming and prototyping new features

The Schedule

1. July 8, 2013: hack
2. July 9, 2013: demo (3:30-5pm) (Google Hangout)

The Proposed Hacks

Advocate	Description	Interested Parties
@markchang	facebook-style stickers in the forums
@Slater-Victoroff	extensible library for fuzz tests
@sarina	emoji in the forums
@wedaly	New features for diff-cover: show original source lines in the HTML report, CSS styling of reports, combine multiple coverage XML inputs, show pep8/pylint violations, plug-in architecture using stevadore. Any help much appreciated :)
@pg	integrate pythontutor.com into edX platform (useful for CS courses)	@rocha
@natea	edX on Docker. Some work was already done on this at the last hackathon by Cale. See his summary, so this would be to continue that work.
@cvoss	As a student browsing edX courses here, it's hard to quickly skim through the titles of all available courses. Adding a "summary" link, to see a page like the one found here, could be helpful.