[ovs-announce] Information on the Open vSwitch Hackathon, March 2014

Kyle Mestery mestery at mestery.com
Mon Mar 24 20:56:39 UTC 2014


Welcome to the Open vSwitch Hackathon March 2014!  The response to the
hackathon has been phenomenal, with 55 people signed up to attend in person
and almost 100 signed up remotely, so we need to have a plan to make the
most of our time. Here is some information to help everyone get the most
out of the hackathon.
Goal

The leading goal of the hackathon is to bring together, solidify, and
expand the community of Open vSwitch contributors.  An important secondary
goal is to work on and improve Open vSwitch together as teams.
Schedule

The hackathon will take place on March 26 and 27 (Wednesday and Thursday).
 The in-person event will be at 170 W Tasman Dr. San Jose CA (Cisco
building D), from 9 am to 6 pm each day. Remote participants should choose
their own hours and coordinate with any in-person people on their project
teams as needed.

Wednesday 9:00 to 10:30: We will begin with a brief introduction to Open
vSwitch development, then break up to form teams with common interest.
 Please arrive on time on Wednesday so that we can most effectively form
teams.  After forming tentative teams, please consider using IRC (see
Collaboration, below) to recruit additional remote team members.

Wednesday 10:30 to 6:00 and Thursday 9:00 to 4:30: Work in teams on
projects.

Thursday 4:30 to 6:00: Teams present results and future directions to the
group.

What will be provided

Lunch will be provided both days.  Coffee and water will be available all
day.

Breakfast and dinner will not be provided.  On Wednesday, we will probably
break up into smaller groups to go out for dinner or club together to order
takeout (if it is possible to stretch the end time that day past 6 pm).

Guest wifi will be available. Accounts are being setup and will be emailed
out to the email addresses you used to register with Eventbrite.
What to bring

A laptop and power adapter.
Ideas For Projects

We will have a number of categories, ideas, and project prompts, but it's
even better if you already have a project in mind.

Snacks, either for yourself or to share.

Collaboration

We will record the hackathon introduction on Wednesday morning to make it
available to remote participants.  We encourage in-person participants and
virtual participants to collaborate where that is practical (since time
zone differences might make it difficult).

Some collaboration resources:

   -

   IRC.  Please feel to use #openvswitch on irc.freenode.net, the official
   Open vSwitch IRC channel, to form teams and host discussions.  You can also
   create temporary IRC channels for more focused discussions.
   -

   dev at openvswitch.org ("ovs-dev") is suitable for email discussions
   related to Open vSwitch.  You might want to join the list at least one day
   before to keep any email you send to the list from being delayed by
   moderation.  If you want to be able to send email to the list without
   receiving all emails from it (because it is a high traffic list), you can
   subscribe and then immediately turn off email delivery in the Mailman
   settings.
   -

   Google Hangouts may be a good way to host team discussions.  (Hangouts
   are limited to 10 people.)
   -

   patchwork.  The website at http://patchwork.openvswitch.org/ helps track
   the progress of outstanding patches through the review process.


We look forward to seeing everyone (either in-person or virtually) this
week! If you have any questions on the Hackathon, please reply to this
thread and we'll do our best to answer them.

Kyle and Ben
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