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Just as a heads-up, Danielle is working with the Hackathon WG on behalf of OpenStack UX to create a framework for collecting user feedback at the hackathons.

From: Lauren Sell <lauren at openstack.org<mailto:lauren at openstack.org>>
Date: Friday, September 23, 2016 at 9:27 AM
To: Stefano Maffulli <stefano at openstack.org<mailto:stefano at openstack.org>>
Cc: "user-committee at lists.openstack.org<mailto:user-committee at lists.openstack.org>" <user-committee at lists.openstack.org<mailto:user-committee at lists.openstack.org>>
Subject: Re: [User-committee] > [CloudAppHack-WG] Key Points when Organizing an OpenStack Hackathon


On Sep 20, 2016, at 7:25 PM, Stefano Maffulli <stefano at openstack.org<mailto:stefano at openstack.org>> wrote:

speaking of past hackatons, from the Guadalajara event I've seen tweets
and a post on Superuser with lots of cool pictures. The room looked huge
and with lots of people: good job!

It would be nice to have some shareable outcome out of these events,
something that can help the app developer communities even if they're
not participating live. I'm thinking of best practice, recipes and
scripts, sample code, horribly broken apps and bug reports... things
like that. Is the code produced during the events published somewhere?
Are there any lessons learned that can be shared with other developers?
What other outcomes can we expect as a community from hackatons?

To quickly comment on this…I completely agree. I had the opportunity to walk around the room with some of the judges and talk to the teams, and they proactively gave us feedback about SDKs that didn’t work (namely the Apple Swift language). If we asked them for more specific feedback, I’m sure we could have gathered a more data. Most of the competitors in Guadalajara were very new to OpenStack, and I still think the primary goal of the hackathons should be education, but it would be great if we had a community member assigned to gather and share some of that feedback. Perhaps a place for the app ecosystem team to get involved?
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