Local Music Project Hackathon

Edmonton Public Library (http://www.epl.ca) is building a digital local music project to celebrate local music and its history. Based on community consultation, we know that we want to share music online and crowdsource a detailed history of Edmonton's local music scenes. First, we need to build the site and we're looking for some insight from the tech community to make sure we're off to a good start.

September 17th we're partnering with Yellow Pencil (http://www.yellowpencil.com) to host a hackathon at Startup Edmonton (http://startupedmonton.com/). We want to build the project in Drupal 7 and we are hoping to run the music hosting through SoundCloud using their API (https://developers.soundcloud.com/docs/api/). We're inviting web developers, Drupal developers, SoundCloud developers and anyone else who wants to participate to help us answer these three main questions:

• What does the basic architecture of this site look like?
• Can the SoundCloud API support this project? In what specific ways?
• What is missing from Drupal 7 that we need to build?

What's in it for you? Food, camaraderie, and the pleasures of problem-solving, building something new and helping out your local library. Check out our tumblr (http://epllocalmusic.tumblr.com) for more information about the project.

Catering numbers will be based on the number of RSVPs, so be sure to sign up if you want to be fed.