[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Conference hackfests alive and well!

[David J. Fiander]

A hackfest is sort of like an unconference, but traditionally they're  
more focused on producing something than an unconference.

The biggest difference between a hackfest and an unconference is that  
every topic that a group coalesces around is an all-day event, rather  
than having timeslots that allow people to explore multiple topics.  
(In a really geeky hackfest, there's also coding involved, but I've  
worked on projects that produced just a requirements document.)

- David

On 14-Apr-2009, at 19:03 , Catherine Buck Morgan wrote:

> Several people from SC are interested in the Docbook demo &  
> documentation discussion, and wanted to make sure it was going to  
> happen, especially as it would affect their travel plans. That  
> "hack"fest term does seem to give some people pause...
>
> Looking forward to conference!
>
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> Catherine Buck Morgan
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> From: open-ils-general-bounces at list.georgialibraries.org on behalf  
> of Karen Schneider
> Sent: Tue 4/14/2009 5:51 PM
> To: Evergreen Discussion Group
> Subject: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Conference hackfests alive and well!
>
>
> The Evergreen conference "hackfests" (probably more accurately  
> "anyfests") are indeed alive and well:
>
> http://evergreen-ils.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=eg09:hackfests#lead_or_join_a_hackfest
>
> Catherine, as you have a wiki account, feel free to suggest one, add  
> your name to one, etc.! We only have one topic listed so far  
> (documentation discussion/Docbook demo), but I hope to see more on  
> this list once we distribute the conference survey to current  
> registrants later this week. Do you have a particular topic of  
> interest?
>
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