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OpenBSD Hackathon Approaching

Posted by Hemos on from the development-forward dept.

BsdFreakZoid writes "OpenBSD developers from all over the world get together once a year at their annual 'hackathon'. This year's hackathon is about to start with around 60 developers, taking place in Calgary, Alberta in Canada from May 21st through May 28th. KernelTrap has spoken with a number of OpenBSD developers about this year's and past hackathons. OpenBSD creator Theo de Raadt is quoted saying, "a few hackathons ago we had a slogan of 'shut up and hack', this is because hackathons are not conferences. People don't come to chit-chat, but to do what projects do. Some other projects hold discussion meetings, I would call those talkathons. We don't discuss, we do." Past OpenBSD hackathons have seen the introduction of SMP support, support for the amd64 architecture, and many other significant advances. What big advance will come out of the 2005 hackathon is yet to be seen."

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  1. fp by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    first-post-a-thon!

    w00t!1!

  2. Be warned: Calgary has the worst strip bars by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    There are only 2 in the downtown core, and they suck. The girls are ugly, no lap dances, and the worst part of it:

    there's this ritual in Alberta where at the end of a dance, the girls sit down on a blanket and guys throw coins at them. The girls will put "targets" on their nipple, their unmentionables, etc, and the guys around the stage will take turns taking loonies, toonies or quarters and chucking them at the girls, trying to knock the targets off. I have no problems with lap dances and stripping because it is empowering to women, but I think throwing coins at women verges on abuse.

  3. Theo The Rat is a loon by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    ..and so i openbsd.. stay away!

  4. Bsdland by Mother+Sha+Boo+Boo · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    OpenBSD developers from all over the world get together once a year at their annual 'hackathon'. This year's hackathon is about to start with around 60 developers, taking place in Calgary, Alberta in Canada from May 21st through May 28th.

    The Happiest Place on Earth! No, wait...

  5. BSD by mboverload · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Holy crap, BSD isn't dead!

  6. Re:big development for this year ... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Basically he sat at the back of the talk about the Free Altheros HAL and ranted on about European Reverse engineering laws. When told by the speaker that his notion of how the law works was not correct and it didn't apply he simply wouldn't drop it. Finally sort of had to be told to shut up because others wanted to ask real questions.

    Perhaps he has stock in companies that want to force users to used closed source drivers or something. Who knows, Who cares..

  7. Tickets available at TicketMaster by ccbutler · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    oof!