Kyoto Tech Meetup Community Hack Day Wrap Up
Websites, LLMs, RAG systems, databases, and more at our first Community Hack Day.
Yesterday we held our first Community Hack Day with the Kyoto Tech Meetup. This post is a quick wrap-up of the day!
What we worked on
The idea behind the hack day is let people choose their own adventure, with an emphasis on community-oriented projects where possible.
Projects included:
- A first revision on the base Kyoto Tech Meetup website
- A genAI system for finding local businesses
- A first personal website with a MySQL-backed contact form
- Prep work for an upcoming job interview
Some teamed up, some worked solo. The only shared expectation was to make a bit of progress and share that progress at the end.
What shipped on the website
The meetup website lives in our GitHub organization at kyoto-tech/kyoto-tech.github.io .
A lot changed in one afternoon. Here are some of themes:
- A new calendar section that auto-updates based on our Meetup.com page (h/t Aidha)
- Hero image and favicon (h/t Aidha)
- i18n support with language switcher + L10n to Japanese (h/t tcz)
- OpenGraph and meta tag work (yours truly)
- Accessibility improvements (yours truly)
This blew right past my expectations of what we'd get done in just a few hours, especially with people trying Astro for the first time.
Gratitude
FabCafe Kyoto deserves a big thank you for hosting us. They let us annex a table for most of the day and it was just super fun to hack in a maker space where people are 3D printing and laser cutting.
Join us next time
If this kind of thing sounds interesting, come to a future meetup. We keep things simple and welcoming for locals and travelers alike. You can find upcoming events on the Kyoto Tech Meetup website.
