[ug-bosug] Ideas for bosug

[Moinak Ghosh]

Hi,

   The hackathon idea is cool. I know that *BSD and Gentoo folks have 
similar kind of events.
But I also feel that it may be a little early for this. To be successful 
in this event we need
familiarity with OpenSolaris to build up sufficiently high among the group.

To add to this we were also thinking of having an installfest for Bosug 
members which might be
a good starting point. Folks can bring in their laptops and even their 
desktops (without monitors
and keyboards) and get the latest OpenSolaris installed/configured. It 
will require quite a bit of
planning. Due to the logistics involved (hardware, net connection, etc.) 
this cannot be held inside
SUN office. We cannot connect outside machines into SWAN.

So this needs to be held at someone's place where there is good 
broadband(unlimited ?) and
power connection. Extra monitors and keyboards and UPSes need to be 
arranged etc.

Organizing this will give us a feel for the technicalities and logistics 
involved and will help us to
plan better for a Hackathon next time.

Regards,
Moinak.

G N S wrote:
> How does the idea of a hackathon @ one of the bosug meets sound.
>
> 1. One or two people already working on their projects do some ground 
> work, the overall design is known. Coding, low level design are to be 
> done - these are identified.
> 2. Identify the set of interested volunteers
> 3. On the decided day, the guys working on the project give an opening 
> brief to the participating members. Set of "to be done" tasks are decided.
> 4. By the end of 2-3 hours, take the tasks to completion
> 5. Another half an hour to integrate the work of different people
>
> Since bosug meets have wider audience, this need not be in lieu of the 
> meet. It can happen just before the meet(managing logistics on the 
> meet day is easier).
>
> If not projects this can also be done for bugs. Identified a pool of 
> bugs to work on and fix a sizeable number of non-trivial bugs.
>
> 3-4 connected systems would be required. If this is difficult to 
> arrange, we can manage with laptops and usb sticks.
>
> The idea is to
> - give good momentum to a work that is already being done.
> - makes it easier for people interested in contributing
> - HAVE FUN.
>
> Any other ideas / thoughts are welcome.
>
> ~Shiv
>
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