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OpenBSD Hackathon Approaching
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."
"we have a barbecue at Theo's at the beginning of the hackathon, to get to know the new people." [...] "we go out for food or coffee in small groups."
...and at the end of the day they vote someone off the island.
I have no idea about this, but I presume that the aim of meeting to code is meant to improve cooperation, right? Is this a pure "Extreme programming" session, or will there be some planning? Otherwhise it sounds like fun.
If you like OpenBSD or OpenSSH, now might be a good time to donate a little bit to the project. Donations help pay for stuff like this hackathon. Considering buying a CD, t-shirt, or just giving some cash. This can be done at the orders page. They also accept hardware donations.
Wait...lemme get this straight.
Now, admittedly, I'm ignorant of who PHK is, or what exactly this person has done to annoy you.
But you're going to switch operating systems because of a single person? A troll, even?
I didn't realize that trolls had gotten that powerful. Perhaps there is some magical property to hot grits that I had not realized.
-- Truth goes out the door when rumor comes innuendo. -- Groucho Marx
Is there any sort of communication or direction of what features people are supposed to be hacking (working) on? Or is it everyone just shows up and develops what they feel like. As a software developer, the latter scares me a bit.
I guess you can't argue with results though.
These things are really good... They can show serious flaws and direct programers in the areas needed to develop.. Microsoft should take note of these and have them weekly, if not daily :-)
Speaking for myself, I switched to DragonFlyBSD because of one person - Matt Dillon.
I must assume it works the other way around too.
Calgary? Isn't that the strip club capitol of Canada? How do they expect geeks to hack when there's readily available naked women geeks can see for the first time? ;)
In all seriousness, good luck! May your coding be swift, and may your debugger bless you.
Yes. The hackathon after this one will be held on-site at Adaptec.
Alas, Adaptec doesn't know this yet. ;)
The best way to predict the future is to create it. - Peter Drucker.
So, how much money did you lose before giving up?
Who would win this election: Andrew Weiner vs Andrew Weiner's weiner.
Maybe they can hack Theos mind to support a personality.
It's by invitation only.
Theo and some of his visitors over the years have been very generous about speaking at meetings of the Calgary Unix Users Group.
This year, we cap off our best month in history, in which we have Richard M. Stallman speaking on May 18 at the University Science Theatres (seats 500). Less than a week later, Theo and the entire 50-ish turnout for the Hackathon, invited to the John Dutton Theatre of the main downtown library (seats 400), on May 24th.
The topic is PF, the packet filter; and the scheduled speaker, Ryan McBride - but the rest of the PF team will be there for question & answer. And with the entire Hackathon invited, the topic could wander a bit.
If you can make it, look for details at our web site:
http://www.cuug.ab.ca/
Roy Brander, P.Eng.
Chair, Calgary Unix Users Group
Calgary? Isn't that the strip club capitol of Canada?
I can tell you as a native Calgarian that Calgary is far from being the strip club capitol of Canada. The reason probably has to do with the fact that active members of the OpenBSD community live here more than anything else--that and the fact Calgary is a very well-connected city (among the most-wired cities in North America and maybe the best in Canada along with maybe Ottawa and Vancouver).
A little OT but maybe interesting to some:
Although Calgary and Alberta is not nearly as red-neck/socially conservative as people outside the province often make it out to be, Calgary (and indeed all the prarie provinces) have quite a puritan heritage--for example, Alberta was led by a premier nicknamed "Bible Bill" Aberhart for many years, and in Calgary from prohibition well into the 60s men and women couldn't be in mixed company in any venue that served alcohol (in later days--1950's the city relaxed laws allowing establishments to serve alcohol to both genders in the same room during the Exhibition and Stampede).
Things have changed a lot since then, but Calgary still doesn't have that big an appetite for strip clubs considering the size of the city. If post-hacking peeler-shows is what they were after I think they would pick a venue somewhere in Quebec--it seems that province embraced more socially liberal attitudes than anywhere else in Canada, except for a few interesting exceptions (in terms of equality for women it was opposite--Alberta and the praries were ahead of the game there and Quebec was the last province in Canada with universal sufferage).
Maybe that is why Ottawa is known for it's Linux activity--it is both a high-tech city AND is closer to the stripper-action as it sits on the Ontario-Quebec border.
It's worth noting these two features were imported almost wholesale from NetBSD.
:-)
Perhaps "portathon" would be a better name.
Disclaimer: I am very involved with CUUG (current President)
Hmm.
Theo: created OpenBSD, an OS with one remote hole in the default install in seven years.
You: post on Slashdot.
Yeah, I know who's an idiot here...
Reports say that despite being told that that was not how OpenBSD developers view the situation he was unwilling to shut up about it until he was eventually told off by the crowd, which wanted to ask actual questions of Reyk.
Not only that, but Paul-Henning has been comparing OpenBSD developers to terrorists. Hardly a troll, more of an astute observation of one of several disgruntled FreeBSD developers making asses of themselves. The man went there trolling.
I'm sick of following my dreams - I'm just going to ask them where they're going and hook up with them later.