[Using Sakai] Sakai Boston Hackathon: Go!

[Nate Angell]

On Wednesday, 8 July at 11am ET, the "Hackathon: Go" session will  
launch Sakai Boston hackathon activities. We plan to organize the  
hackathon in unconference format, which means that whoever shows up  
decides what will happen. That means you!

What you can you do right now? Visit the Sakai Boston hackathon wiki  
page and add your suggestions for hackathon session projects you'd  
like to contribute to and lightning talks you'd like to give.
http://confluence.sakaiproject.org/x/HoDGAw

We will go over these lists and generate more ideas in the "Hackathon:  
Go" session to start planning the rest of the week's activities. More  
projects and lightning talks may well be added along the way. If you  
want to help shape the hackathon, please contribute to the wiki and  
attend the "Hackathon: Go" session.

The hackathon will take place throughout the Boston conference,  
concluding with the "Hackathon: Stop" session 2:30pm ET Friday, 10  
July, where we will review hackathon activities, evaluate the  
hackathon process, and plan any next hackathon steps.

Anthony Whyte, David Horwitz  Noah Botimer and I proposed this  
hackathon to encourage and make visible the hands-on work that goes on  
at Sakai gatherings. We hope the hackathon will be a chance for  
community members of all types—not just developers—to focus on small,  
tangible pieces of work while they are face-to-face that will have  
direct effects on the functionality, usability, accessibility,  
internationalization, design, development, and/or quality assurance of  
Sakai and its tools.

Think java is just a drink? That's OK! You should participate in the  
hackathon too! Gatherings like Sakai Boston are the perfect chance for  
everyone engaged with Sakai to share their experience in real time and  
help shape Sakai in ways large and small. An instructor using Sakai  
for the first time can add significant insight that can help  
developers refine and improve functionality. Sakai implementors  
migrating from other platforms can illustrate alternative workflows.  
Small children can remind us why we bother! Just curious? Anyone can  
watch, learn, and before you know it, add value.

If you are at Sakai Boston, please feel free to drop by the hackathon  
sessions or activities at any time just to see what's going on. We  
will try to keep the wiki page current with any scheduled activities.

Please send any questions or suggestions to the list here and I or my  
fellow hackathoners will respond.

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Nate Angell
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