Hello fellow members,
Our September, 2012 hackathon is this Saturday.
September hackathons co-incide with Software Freedom Day, a global
celebration of free and open source software.
http://softwarefreedomday.org/
Two organized events are planned at Skullspace:
1) An all day bug squash-a-thon.
2) SuperTux time trial competition (starting at 2pm)
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Details
1) An all day bug squash-a-thon. Nominate a free software bug listed in
a public bug tracker that you would like to see squashed by Skullspace
hackers:
http://skullspace.ca/wiki/index.php/Software_Freedom_Day
I will be starting my bug squashing in the morning and give a quick
afternoon presentation on my progress at that point. At the end of the
day (near 8pm) I'll share final progress with a second quick presentation.
Non-programmers can also help with bug squashing by testing out existing
bug reports and adding clarifying comments to them.
If you're looking for a bug to nominate or work on, check out the list
of bugs holding up the next Debian release as an example:
http://bugs.debian.org/release-critical/
2) SuperTux time trial competition
Compete for the fastest time to complete 5 levels in SuperTux (version
version 0.1.3, aka Milestone 1)
http://supertux.lethargik.org/download.html
Performances will be done live on one of our two projectors, but you are
welcome to do so with your own PC.
We need a volunteer judge for this one.
(Come on, step up, and help out. All you need to do is keep track of
who's who and operate a stopwatch.)
SuperTux time trials start at 2pm.
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FLOSS is one of the best things hackers have brought the world. Feel
free to organize your own tribute to this achievement, be it a game
tournement, toast, demonstration of a favorite program, by just plain
hacking.
There's room in the schedule for things unrelated to free software as
well -- us free software hackers like to share.
And there's always room at our hackathons for hanging out.
Happy Hacking,
Mark Jenkins
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