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Are we still doing this? I mean, @paked and I could do this together. Otherwise, I will remove this from the 2.0 milestone temporarily until further notice or action is taken.

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I think we could look at redesigning the API for version 2.

There are a few things I would like to see, but these are the most important IMO:

• Removing the redundant month information
• More specific information regarding the notes
• A keywords field

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In terms of actually making the transition, I could write a script to do this with a fair amount of ease.

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I think this will be good transition. Keyword field is definitely important. What can we improve the notes field? IMO, we could rename it as additional-notes or something like that. What do you think?

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I will also leave this to the community to decide on this transition as well.

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I'd still like to include cost as a field, yep. I think it's an important note to mark on Hackalist, especially since we're seeing a good mix of free vs. non-free hackathons.

As @paked said, should be easy to script: all our previously listed hackathons have been free, except for a couple which have been noted in the listings' notes. Been meaning to get to this, but just haven't had the time.

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Whenever think of the cost field, it should parse as something like free or 25 without the $ sign into the arguments of the field. @paked will take a look at this once we have everything else tackled.

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@rodrigoargumedo I was thinking the same thing, but then I thought of the issue of international currency. We might see hackathons that work in €, for example. Trying to think of the solution to this...

• Converting prices to USD
• Having a separate field for the currency code or symbol (USD, EUR, etc.)
• Simply include the symbol in the field (e.g. $25)

Something to think about!

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This is a great suggestion but I wonder if it will be a little too complex for the code in terms of readability? That also worries me a bit but I do not know if it will be a concern in the future.

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@rodrigoargumedo I was thinking the same thing, but then I thought of the issue of international currency. We might see hackathons that work in €, for example. Trying to think of the solution to this...

Converting prices to USD
Having a separate field for the currency code or symbol (USD, EUR, etc.)
Simply include the symbol in the field (e.g. $25)
Something to think about!

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Why not just have that field as a string? Then people can use whatever currency they want.

I'd bias towards creating issues for all the new behaviours we want to add.

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Good thinking. We should go with that approach instead.

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On Feb 28, 2016, at 10:56 PM, Harrison Shoebridge [email protected] wrote:

Why not just have that field as a string? Then people can use whatever currency they want.

I'd bias towards creating issues for all the new behaviours we want to add.

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@paked Sounds good, basically when I meant by "Simply include the symbol in the field". Definitely the simplest way to go about it.

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In the interest of sharing the work around @KevinPayravi @rodrigoargumedo would either of you be interested in taking this off my hands?

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I'd be happy to - either sometime this week between two midterms, or this weekend when I'm free.

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@rodrigoargumedo If you find yourself bored and wanting to tackle this, feel free to take it :)

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I will when I am done with my midterms this week.

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@rodrigoargumedo If you find yourself bored and wanting to tackle this, feel free to take it :)

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I created a pull request that adds a cost field to all current listings: #149

All previous hackathons (as far as I could find) were listed for free except for one. If it all looks good, let's merge this in :)

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Pull request merged; we now have a cost field :)

For any of the other recommendations made in this thread, let's make new issues for each of those if we still want to pursue and/or discuss them.

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