[Building Sakai] "Hackathon"

[Noah Botimer]

We will be sending some additional information around to this list  
over this week and next.

The idea is that we have a kickoff session early Wednesday, a wrapup  
session late Friday, and an open space for thinking, sketching,  
coding, etc. throughout the conference. A few things we want to  
encourage are work that A) explores a new idea, B) cleans up or fixes  
something that has been hanging around, or C) gives face-to-face time  
with people who have different skills or perspectives than available  
in daily work. We hope that there will be some exciting  
accomplishments and some new initiatives/collaborations established.

More to come soon...

Thanks,
-Noah

On Jun 22, 2009, at 10:56 AM, Steven Githens wrote:

> branden at uwindsor.ca wrote:
>> What is a "hackathon" ? Does anyone have more info about how the
>> Hack-a-thon stream will be working in the Boston conference?
>>
>
> I like to think of them as short periods of time ( usually between  
> 1 and
> 5 days ) where everyone hangs out and bangs out code in a focused
> hardcore environment without a lot of the daily distractions you  
> find at
> work a lot.  Some folks call them Sprints:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sprint_(software_development)
>
> They are awesome fun things to have at conferences ( and a lot of  
> times
> are considered the highlights of such get togethers ).
>
> -s
>
>> Thanks,
>> ------------------------------------------
>> Branden Visser
>> LMS Application Programmer - Information Systems Services
>> Information Technology Services
>> University of Windsor
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