Dear all, Due to all the requests from the community (and in order to be aligned with EB’s Code of Conduct :) CSCS won’t be charging any registration fee for the Hackathon.
The webpage has been updated accordingly. Please be aware that the registration is mandatory (deadline is March 18th). Cheers, G. -----Original Message----- From: <[email protected]> on behalf of Riccardo Murri <[email protected]> Reply-To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> Date: Thursday 18 February 2016 21:55 To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> Subject: participation fees at the 11th EB hackathon (WAS: Re: [easybuild] FW: 11th EasyBuild Hackathon hosted at CSCS in Lugano) >Hi Guilherme, all, > >> We’re happy to announce the 11th EasyBuild Hackathon that will take >> place at CSCS in Lugano, just after the HPC Advisory Council (which >> also happens to be in Lugano). >> >> This Hackathon will be mostly dedicated to hands on activities, >> however it will also include a short intro for new users. > >Thanks for organizing this! > >However, I see that CSCS is charging participants 80. CHF per day, and I >find this unfair towards Hackathon contributors and institutions that >have hosted similar events in the past for free. > >After all, CSCS is going to profit eventually from work done at the >Hackathon in terms of bug fixes and new features for EB; asking >participants to pay in order to come to work in Lugano really feels like >double-charging to me. > >Of course, the amount is not a problem (160. CHF is peanuts in an IT >group's budget), but I do really feel these charges are undue. > >Ciao, >R > >-- >Riccardo Murri >http://www.s3it.uzh.ch/about/team/#Riccardo.Murri > >S3IT: Services and Support for Science IT >University of Zurich >Winterthurerstrasse 190, CH-8057 Zürich (Switzerland) > >Tel: +41 44 635 4297 >Fax: +41 44 635 6888
