[Qgis-developer] Hackfest vs. Code Sprint

[Andreas Neumann]

 Hi QGIS Developers,

 You may have heard that we plan to organize the next QGIS Hackfest 
 after the Lisbon meeting in Zurich, at ETH, the technical university. 
 (thanks Ionut!)

 The responsible persons gave us permission to host the meeting, under 
 the condition that we don't call it hackfest, but something else. We 
 discussed and suggested "code sprint". The professor already heard alarm 
 bells ringing when the term "hackfest" appears in the context of his 
 university. He was concerned that IT and security staff would not 
 support our meeting under the term "hackfest".

 The problem with the term "hackfest" is that you will have more 
 problems acquiring commercial sponsoring and also more problems finding 
 a host. Most commercial or governmental organizations would prefer 
 sponsoring a code sprint rather than a hackfest.

 May I suggest that we call it "code sprint" in the future and if you 
 agree, that we already start calling it "code sprint" for the Lisbon 
 meeting?

 Thanks,
 Andreas

 BTW: many other OS projects also call these events "code sprints" in 
 these days.

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 Andreas Neumann
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 8624 Grüt (Gossau ZH)
 Switzerland