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2006 OpenBSD Hackathon Well Underway

Posted by ryuzaki0 on

An anonymous reader writes "KernelTrap is running a two part who's who at the 2006 OpenBSD Hackathon. Starting on the 27th and running for a full week, developers get together and concentrate on communication rather than just development. Project leader Theo de Raadt was quoted as saying 'I don't think anybody else does this, developers suspend their lives for a week to focus entirely on just development.'"

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  1. Re:No one else does an -athon? by Toba82 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    That's not the point - what he was saying is that no other free software project actually has a meetup where they code in a setting that is, frankly, what closed source companies use 100% of the time.

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  2. Re:Yeah. by twistah · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Look up the word "volunteer" in the dictionary.

  3. Re:What about DebConf? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Yeah but OpenBSD hackathons usually produce things of great value. Others are just a communal handjob.