An acquaintance forwarded this notice to me, the other day-- Events like these are a great way to `flex your brain' by working on different types of stuff and solving different types of problems that you don't normally work with; to learn new stuff, and also to meet new and interesting people with similar interests.
Even if you're not familiar with how packaging or other stuff in Debian and Ubuntu works, there will be some people like me there who can show you the ropes. The message was originally sent to sipb-annou...@mit.edu, but, as I understand it, the event is open to the general public-- anyone else want to go? > You're invited to the SIPB office [1] for a Debian/Ubuntu > bug-squashing hackathon on Sunday, August 21, from 2 PM until > late evening. > > This is an opportunity both to get a little more familiar with the > systems that many SIPB projects build on, and to give back to them and > the larger free software community. We're currently in between the > last alpha and the first beta of Ubuntu's next release, as well as in > the middle of the development cycle of Debian's. SIPB has run this > sort of hackathon a couple of times before, and it's been popular and > has gotten good work done. We're hoping to do that again [2]. > > We'll have a couple of Debian and Ubuntu developers to help you with > understanding how these projects work and to help get fixes into > Debian and Ubuntu. > > If you're looking to get involved with a SIPB project that uses Debian > or Ubuntu and particularly Debian packaging, I especially encourage > you to come, as this will be a good chance to learn more about > packaging and potentially to help these projects by getting some of > our local fixes upstream. As with all SIPB hackathons, we'll be > getting snacks and dinner. We hope to see you there! > > [1] http://sipb.mit.edu/office/ > [2] http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2008/12/msg00513.html -- "Don't be afraid to ask (λf.((λx.xx) (λr.f(rr))))." _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
