Re: [Chicken-users] Hackathon!

[Mario Domenech Goulart]

On Mon, 11 Feb 2008 23:37:00 +0100 Peter Bex <address@hidden> wrote:

> In light of the recent announcement by Felix and some people's concerns that
> the project may get into a bit of a slump with a lack of a single Benevolent
> Dictator, I decided that it would be a good idea to organize a Hackathon.
> This will be an excellent opportunity for the community to get involved and
> pick up on anything that we've all come to take for granted Felix (and other
> core committers) would take care of.
> 
> For those unfamiliar with Hackathons, I've seen and participated in a couple
> of hackathons from the NetBSD project
> (http://www.netbsd.org/community/hackathon.html) where each was a smashing
> success.  The idea is that everyone (hackers AND users) gets together on IRC
> (irc.freenode.net, #chicken) in a weekend and work on "boring" or routine
> things that have been lying around and just need to get done.  To stress,
> this is _not_ about adding major new features, it's just about consolidating
> what's already there, ie fixing bugs, weeding through bugreports, testing etc.

Very good idea, Peter.


> I propose to hold the hackathon on the weekend of 22-23 February.  Suggestions
> of different dates are welcome.  A wiki page has been created at
> http://chicken.wiki.br/Hackathon1 with some initial suggestions of things to
> work on.  Please feel free to add suggestions to it.  As I've stated before,
> _anyone_ is free to help out!  Don't be shy, even if you have zero experience
> hacking Chicken you can help out with documentation or testing of new 
> features.

Yet another form of contribution is creating a user page at
http://chicken.wiki.br/users (it doesn't necessarily need to be done
during the hackaton, obviously.  I just used Peter's message as a
hook). :-)

Best wishes,
Mario