On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 6:01 AM, drew <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, 2011-06-15 at 16:01 -0700, Carl Symons wrote: >> What happens at a LibreOffice HackFest? > > Hi Carl, > > Well, when I first approached this I was thinking more of a QA day but > the organizer (and the organizers from SELF who would be interested, > possibly and depending on how it goes in Ohio, for next years SELF) > really wanted to call it and make it a hack fest. > > Basically the idea is to have a number of 'easy hacks' or 'quick fix > bugs' that people could actually code against (for) right there at the > event. This would include help from mentors from the LIbreOffice side. > > For a QA day it would be somewhat different with the goal of helping > people become useful QA contributors - something that is sorely needed > also. > > There is a bit of overlap as to what a mentor would need to help with > between a QA day and a HackFest - on the one hand I feel confident that > I, personally, could handle the QA day but not so for the Hackfest. > > Anyway - that is not a lot of details and I'll try to flesh in those > details, with help from your folks on the list over the next couple of > days. > > Thanks > > Drew >
This sounds like quite a useful project. Interesting to developers, but would also require guidance from seasoned LibO development people. What skillset would people need to have to be involved? C++, Java, Python? Help improve the leading open source office suite at Ohio LinuxFest. If you are a C++ (and whatever else) programmer and want to help make a big FOSS difference, join the LibreOffice Hackfest. Free pizza and Red Bull. -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/us/marketing/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
