Re: Renaming the "QA Hackathon"?

2016-04-26 Thread Philippe Bruhat (BooK)
On Tue, Apr 19, 2016 at 12:33:31PM +0200, Salve J Nilsen wrote: > > I'm looking forward to hear where this discussion goes, and where the 10th > anniversiary will be next year. (On that note, would you guys be interested > in seeing a QAH in Oslo again?) For the record, I've been thinking about

Re: Renaming the "QA Hackathon"?

2016-04-25 Thread Neil Bowers
Hi Salve, > Since I'm the guy that actually named the QA hackathon originally, I'll take > the liberty to share my thoughts on the matter. I hope You don't mind. :) > > "The Perl QA Hackathon" was originally named after the IRC channel: "The > #perl-qa hackathon". If you guys want to change

Re: Renaming the "QA Hackathon"?

2016-04-20 Thread Peter Rabbitson
On 04/20/2016 09:39 PM, Aristotle Pagaltzis wrote: * Salve J Nilsen [2016-04-19 14:06]: Hm "Perl Ecosystem Summit"... I thought of that myself and ended up not proposing it because the Annual Perl Ecosystem Summit would be the APES. But maybe that is actually good? Well

Re: Renaming the "QA Hackathon"?

2016-04-19 Thread Leon Timmermans
On Tue, Apr 19, 2016 at 12:33 PM, Salve J Nilsen wrote: > Well, good luck figuring out this topic! Wish I could join you in Rugby, > and I'm looking forward to hear where this discussion goes, and where the > 10th anniversiary will be next year. (On that note, would you guys be >

Re: Renaming the "QA Hackathon"?

2016-04-19 Thread Salve J Nilsen
Hey folks, Since I'm the guy that actually named the QA hackathon originally, I'll take the liberty to share my thoughts on the matter. I hope You don't mind. :) "The Perl QA Hackathon" was originally named after the IRC channel: "The #perl-qa hackathon". If you guys want to change the name

Re: Renaming the "QA Hackathon"?

2016-04-18 Thread Aristotle Pagaltzis
* Aristotle Pagaltzis [2016-04-18 14:31]: > FWIW, in case it helps (probably not, but eh), the IETF runs hackathons > that seem to follow the original meaning of the term as we use it; e.g.: >

Re: Renaming the "QA Hackathon"?

2016-04-18 Thread Aristotle Pagaltzis
* Neil Bowers [2016-04-09 16:23]: > There’s a well-established definition for “hackathon” these days, and > the QAH is not one of those. FWIW, in case it helps (probably not, but eh), the IETF runs hackathons that seem to follow the original meaning of the term as we use

Re: Renaming the "QA Hackathon"?

2016-04-09 Thread Kent Fredric
On 10 April 2016 at 04:49, Sawyer X wrote: > Perl Annual Critical Infrastructure Summit. Perl Infrastructural Engineering Summit. PIES. :D Summit of Perl Infrastructural Critical Engineering. SPICE. Hth. -- Kent KENTNL - https://metacpan.org/author/KENTNL

Re: Renaming the "QA Hackathon"?

2016-04-09 Thread Sawyer X
Merging the suggestions I saw so far: Perl Annual Critical Infrastructure Summit. A mouthful, and not a fun acronym. On Sat, Apr 9, 2016 at 6:16 PM, Karen Etheridge wrote: > When I saw this thread title I thought it was going to be discussing the > "QA" part of it, and I

Re: Renaming the "QA Hackathon"?

2016-04-09 Thread Karen Etheridge
When I saw this thread title I thought it was going to be discussing the "QA" part of it, and I thought "yeah, right on!".. I totally agree with Neil's points about what we do not being a "hackathon" though. ..And I also like the idea of changing the QA bit to Infrastructure. Perl Infrastructure

Re: Renaming the "QA Hackathon"?

2016-04-09 Thread Kent Fredric
On 10 April 2016 at 03:45, David Golden wrote: > Perl Toolchain Summit Because "Toolchain" is not really a word that necessarily makes sense outside Perl, you can use "Infrastructure" or even "Critical Infrastructure" in its stead. ( I personally like Critical, its a

Re: Renaming the "QA Hackathon"?

2016-04-09 Thread David Golden
Perl Toolchain Summit On Apr 9, 2016 10:28 AM, "David Cantrell" wrote: > I think the word you're looking for is symposium. Although I think > hackathon is just fine. > > -- > David Cantrell > > This electrogram was despatched by wireless field telegraph. I would >

Re: Renaming the "QA Hackathon"?

2016-04-09 Thread David Cantrell
I think the word you're looking for is symposium. Although I think hackathon is just fine. -- David Cantrell This electrogram was despatched by wireless field telegraph. I would therefore ask that the recipient be so kind as to excuse any failures of courtesy or linguistic inelegance as an