A hackfest is sort of like an unconference, but traditionally they're
more focused on producing something than an unconference.
The biggest difference between a hackfest and an unconference is that
every topic that a group coalesces around is an all-day event, rather
than having timeslots that allow people to explore multiple topics.
(In a really geeky hackfest, there's also coding involved, but I've
worked on projects that produced just a requirements document.)
- David
On 14-Apr-2009, at 19:03 , Catherine Buck Morgan wrote:
Several people from SC are interested in the Docbook demo &
documentation discussion, and wanted to make sure it was going to
happen, especially as it would affect their travel plans. That
"hack"fest term does seem to give some people pause...
Looking forward to conference!
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From: open-ils-general-boun...@list.georgialibraries.org on behalf
of Karen Schneider
Sent: Tue 4/14/2009 5:51 PM
To: Evergreen Discussion Group
Subject: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Conference hackfests alive and well!
The Evergreen conference "hackfests" (probably more accurately
"anyfests") are indeed alive and well:
http://evergreen-ils.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=eg09:hackfests#lead_or_join_a_hackfest
Catherine, as you have a wiki account, feel free to suggest one, add
your name to one, etc.! We only have one topic listed so far
(documentation discussion/Docbook demo), but I hope to see more on
this list once we distribute the conference survey to current
registrants later this week. Do you have a particular topic of
interest?
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