For now, the Hackathon room isn't available on Sunday. We have been
asked to pick just one slot for now which gives us one of 5 large
tables in the room. I booked the late slot on Tuesday. Depending on
how other projects book slots, we might be able to get more tables or
additional time slots (if we want). The late slot gives folks until
3pm to attend other talks/do sightseeing. And if talks clash, I am
sure there won't be a problem dissappear for a session or two. If
Sunday opens up, we can look at moving our slot. More details on the
#hackathon channel in the Apachecon slack.

Cheers, Paul.

On Fri, Aug 7, 2026 at 11:43 PM James Fredley <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> In terms of when the hackathon occurs, I lean towards Day 1: Sunday 11
> October, afternoon and/or evening.  Or Day 3: Tuesday 13 October,
> evening.  Since it sounds like there is a single room, this assumes we
> get a single slot, on a single day.
>
> Last year, there was a game night, organized by Infra, one evening. The
> published schedule does not yet have any of those style sessions, nor
> does it list the general ASF welcome, socials, or closing sessions.
>
> Day 2: is the Groovy & Grails track, so we will either be speaking or
> listening to each other's sessions.
>
> I am planning to do some tourist stuff during day Tuesday and Wednesday.
>
> James
>
> On 8/3/2026 2:51 PM, James Fredley wrote:
> > Hi Paul,
> >
> > I think it make sense to combine, so there is more cross pollination
> > between the teams.
> >
> > On the Grails front, I think our main goal is to work on the Grails
> > Forge and Grails Profiles intersection, either combination, deprecation
> > of one, etc.
> >
> > Specifically, we would like to have a single Grails application
> > generator, if possible, instead of two.  And define the CLI command
> > structure for the future.
> >
> > There are several existing GitHub issues, these do not cover everything.
> >
> > https://github.com/apache/grails-core/issues/15301
> > https://github.com/apache/grails-core/issues/14081
> > https://github.com/apache/grails-core/issues/14944
> >
> > James
> >
> > ---------------
> >
> > Hi Groovy and Grails folks,
> >
> > Over the weekend, I was going to write a draft page(s?) for the
> > hackathon for Community over Code Glasgow. What is the hackathon?
> > There is dedicated space at the conference for folks to get together
> > and have chats (unconference style) or work on mini projects. This
> > lets us deep dive with other users of our projects and maybe even
> > advance them along the way.
> >
> > Currently the hackathon main page is here:
> >
> > https://events.apache.org/events/2026/community-over-code/hackathon.html
> >
> > Once projects fill in their page, it is then linked from the main page
> > instead of the current temporary links which mostly are now pointing
> > to project home pages. Eventually, the page should resemble the one
> > for Tomcat:
> >
> > https://events.apache.org/events/2026/community-over-code/tomcat.html
> >
> > Source here:
> >
> > https://github.com/apache/comdev-events-site/blob/main/source/
> > events/2026/community-over-code/tomcat.md
> >
> > First question, do we want a combined Groovy/Grails page or two separate
> > pages?
> >
> > Also, projects are putting together lists of potential topics to hack
> > on during the event, e.g. Tomcat has created a list on their wiki
> > here:
> >
> > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/spaces/TOMCAT/pages/421958054/
> > Hackathon+CoC+Glasgow+2026
> >
> > Other projects are updating their "good first issue" labels in their
> > issue tracking systems and using those as potential topics.
> >
> > If we keep separate list(s), our Hackathon page(s) themselves won't
> > need frequent updates, but I'll probably include a few indicative
> > topics on that page to entice folks to dive in further.
> >
> > So, let me know any topics you think would be great to cover or if you
> > have a suggestion on where to create a list of topics.
> >
> > Thanks, Paul.
> >
>

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