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

[Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Dec 02, 2014 at 04:26:21PM +0000, Amir Chaudhry wrote:
> 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.

Huddle Meeting?
Brainstorms?

> 
> 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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