Sounds like a plan. I don't have the time off approved yet so fingers crossed on that.
On Mon, May 27, 2019, 18:11 Austin Bennett <whatwouldausti...@gmail.com> wrote: > Great to hear this is coming together. I'm happy to help getting movement > from the Beam Community. > > Very interested to hear concrete plans for hackathon, it will inform the > rest of what content we offer in the Beam tracks. At prior beam summits > (ex: beamsummit.org), we've had intro to contributing workshops, and > working with (hands-on) beam. We think these things are good for people to > do, though it sounds like getting setup for contributing code would largely > be covered in a hackathon? What about getting something working -- hacking > on a project (ex: getting a beam pipeline or something like a spark ml job > running). > > Wanting to ensure that we don't unnecessarily have overlapping/competing > content. > > @rob, @Kevin, @Steve -- maybe let me know as you start to get this worked > out. Happy to attempt to listen in on history lesson, should you arrange > something with @rich. > > On Mon, May 27, 2019 at 1:55 PM Rich Bowen <rbo...@rcbowen.com> wrote: > >> 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 >> >> >> >>>> -- >> >>>> Kevin A. McGrail >> >>>> Member, Apache Software Foundation >> >>>> Chair Emeritus Apache SpamAssassin Project >> >>>> https://www.linkedin.com/in/kmcgrail - 703.798.0171 >> >>>>> 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.) >> >>>>> >> >>>>> -- >> >>>>> Rich Bowen - rbo...@rcbowen.com >> >>>>> http://rcbowen.com/ >> >>>>> @rbowen >> >>>>> >> >>>>> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> >>>>> To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@community.apache.org >> >>>>> For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@community.apache.org >> >>>>> >> >>>>> >> >>> >> >>> -- >> >>> Rich Bowen - rbo...@rcbowen.com >> >>> http://rcbowen.com/ >> >>> @rbowen >> >>> >> >>> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> >>> To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@community.apache.org >> >>> For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@community.apache.org >> >>> >> >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@community.apache.org >> >> For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@community.apache.org >> >> >> > >> >> -- >> Rich Bowen - rbo...@rcbowen.com >> http://rcbowen.com/ >> @rbowen >> >
