Hi all, A hackathon is being planned for Community Over Code Glasgow (October 11–14, 2026). Many of the projects with content at the event are being invited to take part, and CloudStack is one of them. I'm helping coordinate the outreach.
The basic shape: a dedicated room and a chunk of conference time where CloudStack contributors and interested attendees can sit together and work on tasks the project wants done — bug fixes, docs, small features, anything you'd like to put in front of motivated visitors. Duration (one day, two days, …) is still being figured out — this first year back at it is effectively a pilot to gauge interest, and the worst-case scenario is that we block off the room and it sits unused. Responses from the projects will help size it appropriately. Four questions I'd like to take back to the planners: 1. Is there interest in CloudStack participating in the hackathon? 2. Could the project designate one person as a point of contact for coordination with the planners? 3. Would the project be willing to put together a short list of priorities / tasks / bugs / topics that hackathon attendees could pick from? 4. Once the date and format are firmed up, would CloudStack be willing to promote the hackathon on dev@ and users@ to drum up interest and attendance? Coordination is happening on the ApacheCon Slack #hackathon channel (http://s.apache.org/apachecon-slack); there's a tracking spreadsheet at https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1oz41kRqhUoRV3PhcHcAdQNorBiFUZHzpdguBbtKZcA4/edit?usp=sharing . Replies on-list (or directly to me) very welcome — even a "yes in principle, details later" helps with sizing. Thanks, Jarek Potiuk
