On Fri, 2023-05-12 at 22:07 +0200, Anders Andersson wrote: > On Fri, May 12, 2023 at 9:39 PM Katherine Mcmillan > <kmcmi...@uottawa.ca> wrote: > > > > Hi Stuart, > > > > Thank you for your response. The upcoming OpenBSD Hackathons > > aren't published anywhere? How do new people know where/when they > > are? > > > > Thank you, > > Katie > > From the website you linked: "Hackathon attendees come by invitation > only. Some new people in the community who show promise are sometimes > invited to see if they have what it takes. However, hackathons are > not > developer training events."
<snip> Perhaps it might be an idea to develop another tier of these to develop exactly that. If only 5% go on to contribute something of value, whether that be coding or docs, it may well be worth it. It would also contribute to aspects such as community building which, for a number of community- based projects (and one or two quite notable ones) is an aspect which is under-appreciated these days. Just some thoughts, but community-based projects are only as healthy as their communities. Cheers! -- A Kiwi in Australia, doing my bit toward raising the national standard.
