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

[Amir Chaudhry <amc79@xxxxxxxxx>]

While calling them 'Meetings' might appeal to industrial partners (a 
work-related, expensable visit?), it might turn off potential attendees.

Of course, you could just call the same event different things for different 
audiences.

Best wishes,
Amir


On 2 Dec 2014, at 16:20, Lars Kurth <lars.kurth.xen@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 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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