[User-committee] > [CloudAppHack-WG] Key Points when Organizing an OpenStack Hackathon

Danielle Mundle danielle.m.mundle at gmail.com
Wed Sep 28 14:49:07 UTC 2016


Yes, that all seems correct to me. Was going to reconnect with Marcela this
week to coordinate for our summit presentation so this is timely.
--Danielle

On Wed, Sep 28, 2016 at 9:23 AM, Kruithof Jr, Pieter <
pieter.kruithof.jr at intel.com> wrote:

> Hey Flanders,
>
> I believe they’re combining both the focus group and interview data into
> the presentation at the summit.  Also, Intel is paying to recruit
> additional app developers to bump the sample for the interviews closer to
> ten.
>
> Danielle and Marcella, is that your understanding?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Piet
>
>
>
> On Sep 27, 2016, at 9:54 PM, David F Flanders <flanders at openstack.org>
> wrote:
>
> +1 to all of the above. Thank you Stefano for the perspective of this
> event from afar, the Guadalajara team has achieved amazing feats. Based on
> its success, we are hoping to see to this community event grow to other
> Latin American cities, i.e. next year GDL, Mexico City and Buenas Aires?!
>
> To improve these hackathons -as the community grows- we are working with
> the UX project (as lead by Danielle and Pieter) whom have been a priceless
> edition to working with Application Engineers and Developers as they come
> to terms with cloud application deployment patterns.
>
> @Danielle - what are the timelines for the results from the focus group
> which Danny and Marcella conducted in Guadalajara with the extensive mentor
> team?
>
> Also @Marcella could you confirm if you'll be presenting the initial
> results of this focus group at the Barcelona summit?  I would especially
> like to make sure we have Public Cloud providers like Stefano, Jean,
> Petter, Matt/Sean, Bruno, Everett, et al (Cc'd) in attendance so they can
> further enable their customers with this user feedback.
>
> Looking forward to further conversation in Barcelona with regards to all
> of the above.
>
> Kind Regards,
>
> Flanders
>
> On Sat, Sep 24, 2016 at 1:30 AM, Kruithof Jr, Pieter <
> pieter.kruithof.jr at intel.com> wrote:
>
>> 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>
>> Date: Friday, September 23, 2016 at 9:27 AM
>> To: Stefano Maffulli <stefano at openstack.org>
>> Cc: "user-committee at lists.openstack.org" <user-committee at lists.openstac
>> k.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>
>> 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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