hackathon

Hi All,

I'm a co-organizer for the Triangle, NC Drupal User's group, and we're looking to increase our number of meetings to 2x/month and have one of those meetings be a "hack night" or sorts, where members come in with their problems and find someone to help them find a solution.

I'm wondering if anyone has any experience hosting an event of this type, and if you have any advice, tips, warnings, etc. to provide to those of us looking to do this for the first time.

Thanks!

From 12th to 15th February, IIT Kanpur will hold FOSSkriti (essentially an open-source-oriented conference with sprints and workshops). I have put in a proposal to hold a "Drupal Patch and Development Sprint". Below is the proposal mail that I sent...
website - http://techkriti.org/#/fosskriti

Our primary aim at the hackathon will be to try and tackle some of the
impending Drupal 7 patches in the pipeline. Drupal 7 is poised to be
the best Drupal release ever (with stuff like a completely re-written
DB layer, a unit-testing framework, improved usability, better file

So it has been decided.

This Sunday we will be meeting at Tribeca Grand for a hackathon.

WHERE:

Tribeca Grand Hotel
Two Avenue of the Americas
New York, NY 10013

WHEN:

1 pm Sunday November 10th until we get lazy and decide to leave

Help get drupal 6 closer to release. Fix bugs, review patches, play patch bingo, upgrade modules, or just get coffee for the rest of us! :)

Followed by dinner and drinks, perhaps @ the china kitchen? Open to suggestions...

Presentations, demonstrations, discussion topics also welcome. Volunteer or add your ideas on the wiki page.

Add yourself to the wiki page so we can count attendees.