Dropping Rich for now while we discuss internally.
I'm +1 on supporting the hackathon. I am happy to be the point person
but equally happy if someone else wants to do it.
I have various things on my TODO list at least some of which could be
suitable for someone new to Tomcat. Shall we start a list of ideas on a
Wiki page?
Promoting on the users and dev list is easy.
Is anyone else interested in a hackathon?
Mark
On 06/05/2026 12:05, Rich Bowen wrote:
It will be alongside the event. What's not clear at this point is if it's
one or two days or the whole time. Depends on the response that this
message receives. Because of course you wouldn't want it to compete with
your track/content, but I don't know yet how much time/space we can get for
it.
Rich
On Wed, May 6, 2026, 03:06 Mark Thomas <[email protected]> wrote:
Rich,
Is this going to run alongside the conference or is it planned as a
before/after event?
Mark
On 05/05/2026 20:32, [email protected] wrote:
Hi Tomcat community,
We're organizing a hackathon at Community Over Code Glasgow 2026
(October 11–14) and Tomcat 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
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