Re: Seeking venues for 2014 Mesos hackathons

[Matt Trifiro <ma...@trifiro.com>]

I would be happy to ask if we could use the Hacker Dojo space in Mountain
View. I can also ask 500 Startups.


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On Tue, Dec 31, 2013 at 9:58 AM, Dave Lester <da...@ischool.berkeley.edu>wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> Does your organization have space to host a half-day or all-day Mesos
> hackathon? Read on!
>
> There were several Mesos hackathons in 2013, each increasing the number of
> new contributors to the project and leading to some great enhancements
> including the Mesos CLI. In 2014, I'd love to see two improvements to Mesos
> hackathons:
>
> 1) Greater regularity, holding them monthly or every two months.
> 2) Increased coordination with folks who are remote.
>
> I believe the latter is always a challenge, but we'll have a better shot at
> doing so if hackathons are announced well-in-advance so there's time for
> coordination.
>
> As a first step to organizing hackathons with greater regularity, I'm
> hoping to compile a list of potential hackathon venues that we could begin
> to plug into a 2014 calendar. If your organization has available space,
> please respond to this list to voice your interest.
>
> Previous hackathons have been located in the Bay Area since that is where
> most committers are located geographically, but it would be great to change
> that in 2014. Also, if you can only offer space and don't have a budget,
> that's fine -- I'm sure there are folks on this list who don't have space
> but would be willing to pitch in funds for food and beverages.
>
> Lastly, I'm happy to help with future hackathons but would love for a team
> of folks to help with coordination so this is a community effort. If you're
> interested, please speak up.
>
> Dave
>

Re: Seeking venues for 2014 Mesos hackathons

[Matt Trifiro <ma...@trifiro.com>]

Additionally, I know James Governor (Redmonk) fairly well and I bet he
would let us use the Shoreditch Works "town hall" space in London:
http://shoreditchworks.com/


Matthew G Trifiro
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On Thu, Jan 2, 2014 at 5:35 AM, Matt Trifiro <ma...@trifiro.com> wrote:

> I would be happy to ask if we could use the Hacker Dojo space in Mountain
> View. I can also ask 500 Startups.
>
>
> Matthew G Trifiro
> matt@trifiro.com
> +1 206 390 3161
> twitter.com/mtrifiro
> linkedin.com/in/mtrifiro
>
>
> On Tue, Dec 31, 2013 at 9:58 AM, Dave Lester <da...@ischool.berkeley.edu>wrote:
>
>> Hi All,
>>
>> Does your organization have space to host a half-day or all-day Mesos
>> hackathon? Read on!
>>
>> There were several Mesos hackathons in 2013, each increasing the number of
>> new contributors to the project and leading to some great enhancements
>> including the Mesos CLI. In 2014, I'd love to see two improvements to
>> Mesos
>> hackathons:
>>
>> 1) Greater regularity, holding them monthly or every two months.
>> 2) Increased coordination with folks who are remote.
>>
>> I believe the latter is always a challenge, but we'll have a better shot
>> at
>> doing so if hackathons are announced well-in-advance so there's time for
>> coordination.
>>
>> As a first step to organizing hackathons with greater regularity, I'm
>> hoping to compile a list of potential hackathon venues that we could begin
>> to plug into a 2014 calendar. If your organization has available space,
>> please respond to this list to voice your interest.
>>
>> Previous hackathons have been located in the Bay Area since that is where
>> most committers are located geographically, but it would be great to
>> change
>> that in 2014. Also, if you can only offer space and don't have a budget,
>> that's fine -- I'm sure there are folks on this list who don't have space
>> but would be willing to pitch in funds for food and beverages.
>>
>> Lastly, I'm happy to help with future hackathons but would love for a team
>> of folks to help with coordination so this is a community effort. If
>> you're
>> interested, please speak up.
>>
>> Dave
>>
>
>