Awesome. It sounds like we have the three hackathon leads/volunteers -
Rob Tompkins, Steve Blackmon, and Kevin McGrail - which seems like the
ideal number for a leadership group. Do feel free to recruit more
volunteers to help with the work. I'll reach out every month for updates
for my board report.
And, of course, I'm very willing to share history, expectations,
insight, advice, and so on. And you, in turn, are very welcome to take
the reins and drive it in a new direction if you have the inspiration to
do so.
Thanks!
On 5/27/19 1:35 PM, Steve Blackmon wrote:
I am willing to lead (or to assist) hackathon coordination. I have
participated over the past several years and run similar local events, so I
think I have a decent idea of what needs to happen on site, and believe I can
do a decent job of motivating project participation.
The more volunteers the better I suspect, as there will be a lot of threads to
start and follow-up on.
On May 27, 2019, 9:37 AM -0500, Rob Tompkins <chtom...@gmail.com>, wrote:
On May 27, 2019, at 7:50 AM, Rich Bowen <rbo...@rcbowen.com> wrote:
On 5/27/19 9:45 AM, Kevin A. McGrail wrote:
Is the hackathon run all the days of the event?
Yes. All day, every day, in Laughlin 3. Round tables. Power and network.
Nothing else provided.
Happy to help on this one. As I haven’t owned anything like this, I’ll need
guidance.
-Rob
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On Mon, May 27, 2019 at 9:44 AM Rich Bowen <rbo...@rcbowen.com> wrote:
I need 1 to 3 volunteers to own the Hackathon for ACNA.
The Hackathon has long been a central part of ApacheCon. However, the
success of the hackathon waxes and wanes over the years, due largely to
whether someone steps up to drive it.
The hackathon has multiple intertwined purposes:
* Attract and mentor new committers
* Strengthen personal bonds within project community
* Foster cross-project cooperation
* Knock out difficult bugs/features/documentation projects
For this to be successful, the following things need to happen
* Projects need to know about it
* They need to prepare ahead of time. In particular, they need to think
about what they will be working on
* The plan (ie, what we'll be working on) must be promoted both within
the project (so that core project members show up prepared) and outside
(so that curious people show up and play along)
* There needs to be great signage on-site, and we need to mention it at
every plenary
To this end, I need someone(s) to step up to own this. I do not have
time to be the point person on this.
I need someone who cares about building project communities, is
enthusiastic about working directly with projects to build their
hackathon plans, and who plans to attend ACNA to do the on-site stuff
necessary to support the above. I need someone who is willing to take
the reins on this and drive it without much direction from me or anyone
else, and just report back periodically on progress.
Please let me know if you are willing to lead this effort. Thank you.
(Note: If you're on the other side of the pond, I expect that Myrle will
also be looking for someone to do this for ACEU, too.)
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