Hi, Gris. Thanks for including me in the thread! I am definitely interested in being part of the general organization as an extra pair of Berlin-based hands.
About specific initiatives, it would be great to partner up with Aizhamal to do something around documentation! I also took the time to discuss internally the possibility of a Flink Hackathon, but October will be a bit sketchy with Flink Forward in the horizon. We can discuss the feasibility of this if there is agreement that it would be a valuable initiative. Marta On Wed, Jun 26, 2019 at 8:13 PM Griselda Cuevas <g...@google.com> wrote: > I'm cc'ing folks who might be able to help prepare some project specific > hackathons. Maybe some of them would even be interested in helping with the > general organization? > > Alex, David, Matthias & Max - would you be interested in driving a Beam > Hackathon? > > Aizhamal & Marta, any interest in hosting a documentation hackathon? > > David, Aizhamal, any interest in an Airflow hackathon? > > On Wed, 26 Jun 2019 at 07:38, Myrle Krantz <my...@apache.org> wrote: > >> Hey everyone, >> >> Much like for Las Vegas, I'm hoping we can find a volunteer or two who is >> interested in helping to make the hackathon in Berlin awesome. >> >> Is anyone interested in assisting here? >> >> To quote Rich: >> >> "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." >> >> Thanks, >> Myrle Krantz >> Conference Chair, ApacheCon Berlin 2019 >> The Apache Software Foundation >> >
