Want to collaborate on GW2 apps? Start here!

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Posted by: Blumoon.5437

Blumoon.5437

Hey guys! I was floored when the public API beta was released yesterday. I’ve been waiting since they first announced the would-be mobile apps. So, I decided to gauge interest on /r/Guildwars2 soon after the announcement and got a strong response from nearly 20 people who were interested in joining a collaborative effort to make awesome, open-source apps for Guild Wars 2. Now I see this forum bursting with cool ideas and example projects not even 24 hours later. How awesome is that?! I think there’s more than enough passion here in the community to eventually build the apps ArenaNet first set out to offer us. Interested? Let’s dive in!

Public Chat Room
A place to discuss the API and related topics in real-time

Trello Organization
Organize teams, share and vote on app ideas, get projects off the ground
Post your Trello username and I’ll invite you to the org ASAP.

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Posted by: Ayusaki.6739

Ayusaki.6739

I fully support this type of collaboration. When I get home, I’ll see what I can contribute. Collaboration in this capacity is the best way to learn how to code better, as well, so watch this space guys. I’m excited to see what the community comes up with.

[KnT] Kuliya/Kessumi/Kiyuu/Hit My Zerg Not Me

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Posted by: El Do.9467

El Do.9467

Collaboration in this capacity is the best way to learn how to code better.

I agree, made a custom wvw score ‘widget’ today with the new api, but the code is messy and i could learn a lot from my mistakes, example: http://elferink.cc/fspscores

El Do– 80 Warrior
Far Shiverpeaks – Guild of Tweakers [GoT]

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Posted by: CosmicChopsticks.2876

CosmicChopsticks.2876

I’m just a nooby programmer, so I’m gonna sit out and watch how it works, and if I’m lucky pick up some techniques on the way.

Crazy (Jess/Dave/Chuck), The Karma Initiative [rddt]
Aurora Glade

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Posted by: Cilio.4569

Cilio.4569

I can help in android.. Or java app’s if we do something..

edit: trello username: Mimi

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Posted by: Sorrow.7384

Sorrow.7384

I think step one would be to get good SDK’s for a number of popular languages.

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Posted by: Thriceblinded.9126

Thriceblinded.9126

Github: jdalley
Trello: jdalley

C#\Javascript I’ll chip in anywhere I can!

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Blumoon.5437

I can help in android.. Or java app’s if we do something..

edit: trello username: Mimi

Is “Mimi” your display name or your @username? I need the @username to invite you. Turns out there’s a ton of Mimis on Trello!

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Posted by: Blumoon.5437

Blumoon.5437

So I’m having second thoughts about the Github organization. It requires organizing users into teams and the organization would own any repos involved. I would rather everyone retain ownership of their respective projects. I don’t want friction to overshadow collaboration, which is the ultimate goal. I’m going to nix the Github organization for now so we can keep the repositories separate and just collaborate and manage each project in the Trello organization.

That said, I do still want to create a page to show all of our apps in one place. For now, I’m just going to build a simple website and use the Github API to pull info on everyone’s repos.

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Posted by: Cilio.4569

Cilio.4569

I can help in android.. Or java app’s if we do something..

edit: trello username: Mimi

Is “Mimi” your display name or your @username? I need the @username to invite you. Turns out there’s a ton of Mimis on Trello!

@mimi20

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Posted by: Blumoon.5437

Blumoon.5437

Thanks! I added you.

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Posted by: Weris.5248

Weris.5248

Hi,

Good idea, you can add me :
Github and Trello : Weris

Weris – Millenium Old School – Vizunah Square
Author of the MoS matchups Tools
http://mos.millenium.org/matchups

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Posted by: Gilosean.3805

Gilosean.3805

Awesome. I’d love to program with people to make GW2 apps. I currently work in C# and SQL, but I could start dusting off Python if there’s more interest in that.

Trello – @gilosean
Not on Github or any source control system yet.

I agree that it is a better idea to let individual projects choose their own source control with maybe a central person who has access to all of them so even if devs leave the project can keep going with new people. We might want to have a central development spot for things that everyone will be using, like an API wrapper for each language?

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Blumoon.5437

Awesome. I’d love to program with people to make GW2 apps. I currently work in C# and SQL, but I could start dusting off Python if there’s more interest in that.

Trello – @gilosean
Not on Github or any source control system yet.

I agree that it is a better idea to let individual projects choose their own source control with maybe a central person who has access to all of them so even if devs leave the project can keep going with new people. We might want to have a central development spot for things that everyone will be using, like an API wrapper for each language?

Awesome! I added you to the Trello org. A central spot for all the API implementations sounds great for the central app page. I’m thinking I can list a collection of all API implementations/apps and filter by language; maybe even sort into categories eventually to separate purpose-built apps from tools and frameworks.