[gambit-list] [Gambit-iphone] [MSLUG] Hacking Health Hackathon

Álvaro Castro-Castilla alvaro.castro.castilla at gmail.com
Tue Feb 28 09:19:00 EST 2012


Found them in Dumping Grounds :)



On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 4:36 AM, Patrick Logan <patrickdlogan at gmail.com> wrote:
> This is very interesting. Congratulations to everyone involved.
>
> If there's an opportunity to get screen shots on the web somewhere,
> I'm sure many of us would like to see the user interface itself.
>
> -Patrick
>
>
> On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 7:00 AM, Francois Magnan
> <magnan at categoricaldesign.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I decided to go at the last minute. We formed a team with a physician and
>> were able to build a first prototype of a data visualization app for iPad
>> that helps physicians compare different treatments for a given illness. The
>> data comes from a database of a curated list of medical studies. We started
>> the programming saturday morning at 9 and finished at 5pm with a working
>> app. We had an interface designer with us so the app is also gorgeous.
>>
>> All the code (95% would be more accurate) is written in Gambit and using a
>> remote REPL we were able to develop interactively. We also used macros
>> intensively to generate some code for us. Some of them were provided be
>> Jeffrey Read (thank you Jeff) for FFI to Objective-C generation. This was
>> crucial when we were at the very end trying to tweak the interfaces to the
>> taste of the physician.
>>
>> It was an amazing experience. We didn't win a prize but we developed, by
>> far, the most advanced app of all the teams in my opinion (only one other
>> team had an iOS app and they that just two very simple screens that we could
>> have done in 10 minutes).
>>
>> Thank you Marc for giving us access to such a powerful environment. Thank
>> you to all of you in the Gambit community for helping me on this mailing
>> list.
>>
>> Francois Magnan
>>
>>
>> On 2012-02-27, at 08:29, Alexandre Abreu wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>>> Hello. I am looking for people interested in joining a team of hackers for
>>> this weekend's "Hacking Health Hackathon" (http://www.hackinghealth.ca/) in
>>> Montreal. I am putting together a team with the
>>> objective of using Gambit, and Gambit REPL on the iPhone, to build a
>>> prototype health related application. The organizers are expecting over 150
>>> hackers, and there are prizes to win.
>>
>> Did you succeed in getting a team together (I couldn't, too late notice),
>> and if yes, what did you build?
>>
>> Alex
>>
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