17 The S3 GUI team is building a standalone app as a GUI front-end to Scality storage on Kinetic. They’re writing a drag-and-drop User interface using JavaScript, Electron and React so that people can interact directly with the storage without having to use a command line interface. Team member Andy Chen goes to every single Hackathon in in the bay area: he’s been to 14 or 15 this year so far. He knows S3, so this one was especially attractive to him. this. A junior at Berkeley, Andy’s pretty good at the Hackathon game: he’s won 5 just this year. And, so far this year, those wins have earned him approximately $20k in scholarship money, Uber credits and other prizes. His teammate, Alex Davis is an entrepreneur. Alex chose to join this hackathon as a learning experience, and to give himself a break from the intense project he’s been working on for his business. He uses AWS S3, and finds it frustrating that he has to be online to use it. The fact that he can work offline with the Scality S3 Server is a great help to him, so he wanted to get to know this tool because it will help in his work. He was also impressed that Scality has a JavaScript interface to the Seagate Kinetic drives.
