#MesosCon Hackathon Details Announced

[Dave Lester <da...@gmail.com>]

Below are details about the #MesosCon hackathon, which has also been shared
on the Mesos blog:
http://mesos.apache.org/blog/mesoscon-2014-hackathon-details-announced/

Hope to see many of you there!

Dave

#MesosCon Hackathon Details Announced

After a full day of workshops and talks <http://mesoscon14.sched.org/> at
MesosCon <http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/mesoscon>, we’re
challenging participants to hack on Mesos <http://mesos.apache.org/> during
an Atlassian <http://www.atlassian.com/>-sponsored hackathon taking place
Friday, August 22nd. This event is an opportunity to contribute to the
project, collaborate with other members of the community, and learn in the
process.

We’ve identified two categories of hacks that we hope participants will
focus on:

   - *Community Need*: These are issues logged in the Mesos issue tracker
   <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MESOS/?selectedTab=com.atlassian.jira.jira-projects-plugin:issues-panel>
that
   have received a large amount of activity (comments, votes, etc), and
   address some of the larger problems or pain points for the community.
   Suggested projects include new features, bugs, or documentation.
   - *People’s Choice*: These contributions will be voted on by your peers,
   and our guidance is intentionally open-ended so teams will run wild with
   their ideas. We’re excited to see what you come up with.

Forming Groups

We strongly encourage hackathon participants to use the public JIRA issue
tracker <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MESOS/> to log and discuss
their ideas prior to the hackathon, using the MesosConHack label
<https://issues.apache.org/jira/issues/?jql=project%20%3D%20MESOS%20AND%20labels%20%3D%20%22MesosConHack%22>.
The project mailing lists and IRC <http://mesos.apache.org/community/> are
good places to discover and share project ideas in advance.

Thursday evening of MesosCon, teams will form and ideas may be pitched.
Additionally, project committers will be on-site to act as mentors and
shepherds throughout the hackathon.
Hackathon Rules

   - Actual development on submissions should begin the evening of August
   21st and must not begin earlier. However, teams are encouraged to have
   community discussions prior to the event.
   - In order for an entry to be valid, a pull request or review board
   patch must be submitted.
   - Submitted applications must run.
   - Teams may have a maximum of four contributors.
   - A team may only win one category.
   - Submissions must be related to Mesos in some way.

ScheduleThursday Evening

Following sessions on day one of MesosCon, we will hold a hackathon kickoff
that includes an explanation of the rules, and a chance for ideas to be
pitched and teams formed. Hacking may begin at this time, although evening
hacking is optional.
Friday

9:00 - Hacking begins at conference center

13:00 - Lunch arrives

17:00 - Coding stops, refreshments are served

17:15 - Re-explain the voting rules

17:20 - Presentations start - Each team gets 5 minutes to pitch what they
built and show it off

18:00 - Voting occurs

18:15 - Winners announced
Registration

Interested in participating in the hackathon? Participants must register
for MesosCon
<https://www.regonline.com/register/login.aspx?eventID=1533330&MethodId=0&EventsessionId=>
.

For new MesosCon registrants, you will see a checkbox at the time of
registration. If you’ve already registered for MesosCon, you will be
contacted to confirm whether you plan to participate in the hackathon.