Proposal #4: Berlin nightlife history web site - VOTO (Voll gewesen, toll gewesen)

[til]

This is an idea for a web site project to build a non-profit web site
to document the history of berlin nightlife since the fall of the
wall.

In that time, a lot of clubs and bars have appeared and disappeared,
some of them legendary but almost forgotten today, often in places
that have been completely rebuilt now without visible reminders of
their history. This project wants to build a web site that allows
everyone to contribute to a collaborative documentation of those
locations. It should serve as a fun way to relive memories for those
who participated in some parts of that history, discover stuff that
they missed, and also as a useful and hopefully impressive
documentation for people who are new in berlin. The idea is to
structure it around a map with a time slider that reaches from 1989 to
today. Pulling the time slider to today shows current activity.

A former work colleague of me had the idea and introduced me to it a
couple of days ago. There is not much more than a few loose feature
ideas, a name and some domains yet. The person who had the initial
idea has a background in advertising, is currently working for Apple
and did not know Railsgirls before I suggested to him to add the
project as proposal here. The details of who works on what and who is
credited etc. would still need to be determined. I like the general
idea a lot, and can imagine to contribute in some way. If there is
interest of a rgsoc team to work on it, I can act as a mentor, and
would write a starting prototype.

If you like the idea you propably live or have lived in Berlin and
experienced some of that period and could imagine to use the website
yourself. So the target audience for this proposal is somewhat
limited.

Advantages that I can think of:

• learn how to bring a new project from idea to live web site
• build something that a lot of people would find a lot of fun
• it could go online as beta version early during rgsoc, and give you
  the opportunity to learn how to run a live site

[PragTob]

I just died laughing reading the title. 👍

[til]

😄! Hopefully not everybody dies but finds it interesting to work on ...

[thestubborndev]

I don't live in Berlin but I think this is a great idea! :-)

[til]

Thanks, great to hear! 😄

[til]

There is a very rudimentary prototype now, implemented with rails: https://github.com/til/voto

[rxj]

@Malwine and me are just working on our application for the summer of code and are pretty curious about this project! We enjoy that the project is on an early stage so that we see a big chance to gain experience and can pick up coding skills. We would be pleased to enhance the current part of the history of berlin nightlife :)