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Hi Rosa,

I am one of the organizers of China Hackathons.
I think it is a good idea to host a Hackathon in Europe right after the mid-cycle meetup. However, I suggest to allow more days instead of only 1 to fix bugs, or you have to get well prepared, because fixing bugs is about reproducing, fixing and reviewing - not that easy.
When we did Hackathon in August, we had half a day to share techniques like meetups. So possibly you can combine mid-cycle meetup with hackathon, which is really a good idea to save the cost. Also I would like to tell that the core invitation is one of the key aspects to make the event succeed. Because the event will definitely attracts many developers, new or old, and you will have many fixes, it needs more cores to spend the bandwidth reviewing those fixes within 1-2 days.

Best Regards.
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Shane

-----Original Message-----
From: Rosa, Andrea (HP Cloud Services) [mailto:andrea.rosa at hpe.com] 
Sent: Thursday, November 12, 2015 7:15 PM
To: OpenStack Development Mailing List (openstack-dev at lists.openstack.org)
Subject: [openstack-dev] [nova] hackathon day

Hi

I knew that people in China had a 3 days hackathon  few months ago I was thinking to have a similar thing in Europe.
My original idea was to propose to add an extra day after the mid-cycle but I am not sure if that is a good idea anymore:

CONS:
- the next  mid-cycle is going to be the first one outside USA and as for any new things it has some level of uncertainty, we know that we could have a less participant than the other meetups, so it is a risk to add the hackathon at this time
- probably it is better to have more than one day for getting the most out of an hackathon event
- ppl attending the hackathon are not necessarily the same person attending a mid-cycle event, I think at the hackathon as a very good opportunity for new contributors
- it is already late for this proposal, I know I had to propose it at the last summit, my fault

PROS:
- having the hackathon following the  mid-cycle gives us the opportunity to have more core reviewers available, which is a key point for getting right directions and stuff done
- cost effective: ppl interested in attending both events can save a travel 

It'd be good to have a feedback about the Chinese hackathon experience to understand if it's worth to put effort in making a similar event in other part of the world.
If it's not the mid-cycle I think there are other events where it could be good to have a couple of extra days for the hackathon, I am thinking for example at Fosdem [1]... well not for 2016 as it is on the week-end after the mid-cycle :)

Thanks
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Andrea Rosa

[1] https://fosdem.org/






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