Welcome to the Open vSwitch Hackathon March 2014! The response to the hackathon has been phenomenal, with 55 people signed up to attend in person and almost 100 signed up remotely, so we need to have a plan to make the most of our time. Here is some information to help everyone get the most out of the hackathon. Goal
The leading goal of the hackathon is to bring together, solidify, and expand the community of Open vSwitch contributors. An important secondary goal is to work on and improve Open vSwitch together as teams. Schedule The hackathon will take place on March 26 and 27 (Wednesday and Thursday). The in-person event will be at 170 W Tasman Dr. San Jose CA (Cisco building D), from 9 am to 6 pm each day. Remote participants should choose their own hours and coordinate with any in-person people on their project teams as needed. Wednesday 9:00 to 10:30: We will begin with a brief introduction to Open vSwitch development, then break up to form teams with common interest. Please arrive on time on Wednesday so that we can most effectively form teams. After forming tentative teams, please consider using IRC (see Collaboration, below) to recruit additional remote team members. Wednesday 10:30 to 6:00 and Thursday 9:00 to 4:30: Work in teams on projects. Thursday 4:30 to 6:00: Teams present results and future directions to the group. What will be provided Lunch will be provided both days. Coffee and water will be available all day. Breakfast and dinner will not be provided. On Wednesday, we will probably break up into smaller groups to go out for dinner or club together to order takeout (if it is possible to stretch the end time that day past 6 pm). Guest wifi will be available. Accounts are being setup and will be emailed out to the email addresses you used to register with Eventbrite. What to bring A laptop and power adapter. Ideas For Projects We will have a number of categories, ideas, and project prompts, but it's even better if you already have a project in mind. Snacks, either for yourself or to share. Collaboration We will record the hackathon introduction on Wednesday morning to make it available to remote participants. We encourage in-person participants and virtual participants to collaborate where that is practical (since time zone differences might make it difficult). Some collaboration resources: - IRC. Please feel to use #openvswitch on irc.freenode.net, the official Open vSwitch IRC channel, to form teams and host discussions. You can also create temporary IRC channels for more focused discussions. - [email protected] ("ovs-dev") is suitable for email discussions related to Open vSwitch. You might want to join the list at least one day before to keep any email you send to the list from being delayed by moderation. If you want to be able to send email to the list without receiving all emails from it (because it is a high traffic list), you can subscribe and then immediately turn off email delivery in the Mailman settings. - Google Hangouts may be a good way to host team discussions. (Hangouts are limited to 10 people.) - patchwork. The website at http://patchwork.openvswitch.org/ helps track the progress of outstanding patches through the review process. We look forward to seeing everyone (either in-person or virtually) this week! If you have any questions on the Hackathon, please reply to this thread and we'll do our best to answer them. Kyle and Ben
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