Re: [Publicity] Another reason why our "hackathons" should be called something else

[Lars Kurth <lars.kurth.xen@xxxxxxxxx>]

We should probably call them something else. e.g. Developer Meetings or Design 
Summit or Developer and Design Meetings (better ideas are welcome)
It became very clear that the label Hackathon is not very well understood by 
many people outside the core attendees. For example Intel, Fujitsu, Alibaba and 
others were quite interested in participating when I explained the concept as 
it is today. The Hackathon label led them to ignore mails that were sent 
related to these events in the past

Cheers
Lars

On 30 Nov 2014, at 15:54, Amir Chaudhry <amc79@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I'm not sure what the context is, since I haven't been at any Xen-related 
> hackathons before.  However, the linked article doesn't present many 
> convincing arguments imho and most points have trivial rebuttals.  For me, 
> most of the impression of an event comes from how it's communicated to 
> (potential) attendees in advance.
> 
> As a contrast to a hackathon, you can checkout the OCaml Compiler Hacking 
> sessions run in Cambridge (see links below). These are fairly relaxed 
> evenings with food, drinks and occasionally a short talk.  Not everyone does 
> compiler hacking either -- last time I spent the evening trying to get an 
> OCaml side-project working.
> 
> blog: http://ocamllabs.github.io/compiler-hacking/
> wiki: https://github.com/ocamllabs/compiler-hacking/wiki
> list: http://lists.ocaml.org/listinfo/cam-compiler-hacking
> 
> Best wishes,
> Amir
> 
> On 28 Nov 2014, at 17:01, Ian Jackson <Ian.Jackson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
>> http://infotrope.net/2014/11/28/why-i-dont-like-hackathons-by-alex-bayley-aged-39-12/
>> 
>> I don't recognise our events in (most of) that.  But we don't want to
>> be giving that kind of impression.
>> 
>> Ian.
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