[Qgis-developer] Coordination of Hackfest with FOSS4G

[Saber Razmjooei]

Hi all,

I think we will stick with the original plan as on the wiki. 

Regards,
Saber


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[mailto:qgis-developer-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Tim Sutton
Sent: 29 May 2013 15:48
To: Barry Rowlingson
Cc: richard at duif.net; qgis-developer at lists.osgeo.org
Subject: Re: [Qgis-developer] Coordination of Hackfest with FOSS4G

Hi



On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 3:39 PM, Barry Rowlingson
<b.rowlingson at lancaster.ac.uk> wrote:
> On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 11:19 AM, Richard Duivenvoorde 
> <rdmailings at duif.net> wrote:
>
>> if I understand correctly, Tuesday 17 and Wednesday 18 are the 
>> hackdays of foss4g which normally were done after the conference. But 
>> now combined with the workshops which normally preceded the conference.
>> My experience is that most core developers of the different foss4g 
>> projects show up on these days (and other interested shove by).
>>
>> QGIS hackfest was/is planned from 12 - 16
>>
>> Isn't this perfectly planned? We first hack for 4 day full steam on 
>> QGIS, and then optionally 2 extra days with some extra new people (OR 
>> you can choose to attend another hackbof (I'm very interested in 
>> OpenLayers and MapProxy for example).
>
>  I think there may be some confusion between the FOSS4G Hackathon and 
> the Code Sprints...
>
>  The Hackathon ("Hack Days") is a thing sponsored by The Met Office 
> where a bunch of random geeks get together to work on developing 
> solutions to problems, guided mainly by Met Office ideas.  The plan is 
> to be similar to the NHS Hack Day (where geeks work on projects for 
> health data and clinical procedure) or other "Random Hacks of 
> Kindness" (RHOK) projects.
>
> The Code Sprint is intended to be a free space for open-source project 
> devs and interested parties to get together and work on their 
> projects. FOSS4G supplies the room and the electricity and phone 
> numbers of local pizza places. We should be able to provide code 
> sprint facilities during the main conference as well as the special 
> code sprint day on the Sunday.
>
>  Now, I'm not saying QGIS couldn't run a code sprint during the 
> hackathon days (personally I think its a great idea, would have to run 
> it past the committee and make sure there's space) but that's not what 
> the hackathon is.
>
> http://2013.foss4g.org/programme/hackathon/
> http://2013.foss4g.org/programme/code-sprint/

Personally I would prefer to have the QGIS hackfest independent from the
FOSS4G - I think it will be a distraction on various levels to be at FOSS4G
- QGIS developers will get lured away to other groups and random people will
wander in and distract QGIS hackers from their geekery. If the hack days
coincide with workshop days it would be doubly bad as those wanting to
attend workshops would do so at the detriment to their QGIS hack time.

I appreciate that there would also be some advantages to Pirmin's suggestion
- encouraging interoperability with other projects and so on, but that could
also be facilitated at BOF sessions in the FOSS4G conference.

Regards

Tim

>
>  Hope that's all clear!
>
> Barry
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