{"id":1502,"date":"2018-03-26T14:35:15","date_gmt":"2018-03-26T14:35:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dlang.org\/blog\/?p=1502"},"modified":"2021-10-08T11:04:53","modified_gmt":"2021-10-08T11:04:53","slug":"announcing-the-dconf-2018-hackathon-pass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dlang.org\/blog\/2018\/03\/26\/announcing-the-dconf-2018-hackathon-pass\/","title":{"rendered":"Announcing the DConf 2018 Hackathon Pass"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"As I write, General Admission for DConf 2018 in Munich<\/a> has been open for one week. The conference runs from May 2\u20135, with three days of talks capped off by a day-long Hackathon. We\u2019ve heard there are some in the area who would like to attend, but just can\u2019t get away from work for three days for the full conference. So we\u2019ve decided to do something about it.<\/p>\n

This year,\u00a0 the Hackathon is open, free of charge<\/a>,\u00a0to anyone interested in hanging out with us on Saturday, May 5th, the final day of the conference. You’ll have to bring your own lunch, but you’ll get access to the full day. This time around, it’s more than just hacking on and talking about D code.<\/p>\n

We\u2019ve added one more new item to the list this year: the Hackathon will be kicked off with a talk by Shachar Shemesh from WekaIO<\/a>. His talk, Announcing Mecca<\/a>, introduces the company\u2019s open source D project to the world, a perfect way to get us started on an event intended to motivate hacking on open source D projects.<\/p>\n

Last year, our inaugural Hackathon was a great success. It\u2019s not a hackathon in the traditional sense, but an opportunity for D programmers to come together and spend the day working on the projects that they think matter, improve the D ecosystem, or learn more about D programming.<\/p>\n

Any attendee with an open source D project is welcome to seek out collaborators to help them get work done on site, or to hunker down and help others hack features and bug fixes into their own projects, or any project in the D ecosystem. Some may simply want to sit and code by themselves, getting instant feedback from others on site when it\u2019s needed, and that\u2019s fine, too. Last year\u2019s event proved to be quite a productive day, particularly for the core D projects.<\/p>\n

Those not in the mood for coding, or who aren\u2019t yet up to speed on D programming, are covered, too. Last year, groups gathered to hold brainstorming sessions on ideas for new projects, or for solving complex issues in the core. Others, D\u2019s BDFL Walter Bright among them, took some time during the day to tutor less experienced D programmers, on specific language features and other programming topics, in informal sessions that came about because a few people sitting near each other started asking questions.<\/p>\n

In short, the DConf Hackathon is a day of getting things done in a friendly and collaborative environment full of people with shared interests. It\u2019s a loosely organized event, the direction of which is determined by those participating. We\u2019ll throw some ideas out there for you to work on if you need the cues, but you\u2019re free to go your own way.<\/p>\n

Last year\u2019s Hackathon fell on a Sunday, and some of the conference attendees had to skip it or leave early in order to get back home for work on Monday. This year, it\u2019s on a Saturday, so we hope that if you weren\u2019t able to stick around last year you can do so this time around.<\/p>\n

If you\u2019ve never been to a DConf or don\u2019t know much about the D language, the Hackathon Pass<\/a> is a great remedy for both ailments. So if you\u2019re in or near Munich Saturday, May 5th, we invite you come on by and hear about a great new open source project, spend a day with a friendly crowd of interesting people, and learn a little about the D programming language in the process.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Interested in hanging out with us on Saturday, May 5th at the DConf 2018 Hackathon, but can’t attend the full conference? Get your dlang on with a Hackathon Pass! We’ve got an extra talk announcing a new open source project to get us started.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15,6,25],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dlang.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1502"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dlang.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dlang.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dlang.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dlang.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1502"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/dlang.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1502\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1505,"href":"https:\/\/dlang.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1502\/revisions\/1505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dlang.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dlang.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dlang.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}