The iRail Summer of code has come to an end, and we tried to do as much as possible in the time we had left.

Time is going fast, and the third Summer of code week has passed before we knew it!

The second week of the iRail Summer of code was just as eventful as the first one. Here's a rundown of our activities this second week.

Since Friday July 15th, the city of Ghent is providing open data of the Gentse Feesten events. To celebrate this, the iSoc students decided to code an HTML5 application for smartphones. With this app, you can look up easily what events are going on or starting soon, close to where you are.

Because the Gentse Feesten started on July16th, the iSoc students tried to get the app functionable as soon as possible. On Friday evening, the first version was already online at http://gentsefeesten.irail.be, and over the weekend it was further developed.

In the following video, you can see what the Hackerspace looked like during the making of the Gentse Feesten app.

As we announced at the beginning of the Summer of code, we will be organising workshops soon, for which you can subscribe by sending an email to Greet. These workshops offer the opportunity to take a look at what the iSoc students have been doing behind the scenes, and to pick up some useful skills as well.

The iRail Summer of code is off to a good start, and we're already halfway through the second week so it's time for an update! For some background information on the projects mentioned, take a look at each of the students' pages, where their activities are conveniently summarised; here's what they've been working on so far.

iRail Summer of code (iSoc) is an event organised by the iRail NPO (vzw/asbl). During the month of July, a couple of enthousiastic students and iRail members work together in the Hackerspace in Ghent, on several innovative projects concerning mobility. An application visualising commutes, an online meetingsite accompanied by an app to get together on the train, tram or bus, extending the irail.be service by implementing the iRail API on De Lijn, ... All these projects and more are made possible by our partners.

Other than that, iSoc also organises workshops in July. All interested parties are welcome to come listen to the iSoc students or other speakers.

By not only working on projects individually but also helping and inspiring each other, this event aspires to share knowledge, ideas and visions, keeping the focus on durable mobility and open data.

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