Thanks for reaching out Rich,
I'll attend CoC and would be interested to help (if it's not too much
work, and I can make the time).
-Matthias
On 5/6/26 6:06 AM, [email protected] wrote:
Hi Kafka community,
We're organizing a hackathon at Community Over Code Glasgow 2026 (October
11–14) and Kafka has sessions on the schedule. We'd love for your community to
participate.
The idea is simple: dedicated time and space at the conference for contributors
(new and existing) to work together on real tasks — fixing bugs, writing docs,
tackling issues that need focused attention, or onboarding new contributors.
To participate, we'd need a few things from your project:
• A point of contact — someone we can coordinate with on logistics and
who'll be present at the event.
• A list of tasks — bugs, docs, features, good-first-issues, or whatever
your project wants to focus on. This helps people show up ready to contribute
rather than spending the first hour figuring out what to work on.
• Promotion — a message to your dev@ and users@ lists letting people know
this is happening and encouraging them to attend.
This is the first year we're bringing the hackathon back, so we're treating it
as a pilot — we want to gauge interest before committing to scale. Even if only
a few contributors from your project can participate, that's a great start.
If you're interested, please reply here or reach out to me directly. Even a quick "yes, we're
in" or "maybe, let's talk" is helpful as we figure out how many projects to plan for.
Also, please join us in the #hackathon channel on the ApacheCon Slack — that's
where we'll be coordinating as things come together:
http://s.apache.org/apachecon-slack
Thanks,
Rich, on behalf of the Community Over Code planners
—
Rich Bowen
[email protected]
