Hi QGIS Developers,
You may have heard that we plan to organize the next QGIS Hackfest
after the Lisbon meeting in Zurich, at ETH, the technical university.
(thanks Ionut!)
The responsible persons gave us permission to host the meeting, under
the condition that we don't call it hackfest, but something else. We
discussed and suggested "code sprint". The professor already heard alarm
bells ringing when the term "hackfest" appears in the context of his
university. He was concerned that IT and security staff would not
support our meeting under the term "hackfest".
The problem with the term "hackfest" is that you will have more
problems acquiring commercial sponsoring and also more problems finding
a host. Most commercial or governmental organizations would prefer
sponsoring a code sprint rather than a hackfest.
May I suggest that we call it "code sprint" in the future and if you
agree, that we already start calling it "code sprint" for the Lisbon
meeting?
Thanks,
Andreas
BTW: many other OS projects also call these events "code sprints" in
these days.
--
Andreas Neumann
Böschacherstrasse 10A
8624 Grüt (Gossau ZH)
Switzerland
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