Hackfests in the GNOME-related world

The goal of this page is to track all hackfests happening in the GNOME-related world, and to keep some links to reports and conclusions of each event.

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2012

Brno Docs Hackfest 2012, Brno, Czech Republic, February 17 - 21

GTK+ Hackfest at Developer Conference 2012, Brno, Czech Republic, February 17 - 21

GStreamer Hackfest 2012, Malaga, Spain, January 25 - 27

ATK/AT-SPI2 Hackfest 2012, A Coruña, Spain, January 18 - 22

• Hackfest announcement in GNOME news

• ATK/AT-SPI2 Hackfest 2012: Day 1 by Alejandro Piñeiro

• caching in AT-SPI by Mike Gorse

• Accessibility support in WebKit2GTK+ by Mario Sánchez Prada

• Photo set by Mario Sánchez Prada

• GNOME plans an accessibility push for 2012 by Nathan Willis for LWN.net

• Excellent Progress Made at GNOME Accessibility Hackfest in GNOME news

• GNOME Accesibility Hackfest interview by Koudaras Konstantinos & Izabel Valverde for openSUSE news

2011

WebKitGTK+ Hackfest, A Coruña, Galicia, November 29th - December 5th

• WebKitGTK+ hackfest wrapup: accelerated compositing by Martin Robinson

• Highlights of WebKit GTK hackfest by Nayan Kumar

• WebKitGTK+ hackfest \o/ by Gustavo Noronha Silva

• WebKitGTK+ Hackfest: WK2, a11y and Ephiphany’s ad blocker extension by Mario Sánchez Prada

• WebKitGTK+ Hackfest: Day 5 by Bastien Nocera

• WebKitGTK+ hackfest wrap up by Juanjo Sánchez

• A new design for Epiphany: Web by Xan López

• Open web apps and device APIs by by Juanjo Sánchez

• webkittens! lexical scoping is in danger! by Andy Wingo

• Vegas baby by Bastien Nocera

• WebKitGTK+ Hackfest: Day 4 by Bastien Nocera

• WebKitGTK+ Hackfest: Day 3 by Bastien Nocera

• WebKitGTK+ Hackfest: Day 2 by Bastien Nocera

• WebKitGTK+ Hackfest: Day 1, Afternoon by Bastien Nocera

• WebKitGTK+ Hackfest: Day 1, morning by Bastien Nocera

• Accelerated Compositing in webkit-clutter by Gustavo Noronha Silva

• Photo set by Mario Sánchez Prada

• Photo set by Nayan Kumar

Accessibility of the libre! workstation, Granada, Spain, November 30

GStreamer Hackfest, Prague, Czech Republic, October 24 - 25

GObject-introspection Hackfest, Berlin, August 10 - 15

• GObject Introspection hackfest in Berlin by Tomeu Vizoso

IM, Contacts & Social hackfest, Cambridge, UK, June 13 - 17

• End of the hackfest by Philip Withnall

• IM, Contacts and Social Hackfest, final day by Bastien Nocera

• Instant messaging hackfest at Collabora office by Christian Schaller

• Empathy and GNOME Online Accounts by Danielle Madeley

• IM, Contacts and Social Hackfest, day one by Bastien Nocera

• IM, Contacts & Social hackfest by Philip Withnall

• heading to IM, Contacts and Social hackfest by Danielle Madeley

• IM, Contacts & Social hackfest by Guillaume Desmottes

Open Help 2011, Cincinnati, OH, USA, June 6 - 8

• Open Help Conference, June 3-5 in Cincinnati, OH by Kelly Sinnott

• First report – Gnome Women Outreach Program 2011 by Julita Inca

• Open Help Conference and Hackfest by Tiffany Antopolski

• Open Help 2011 - Cincinnati by Phil Bull

ATK Hackfest, A Coruña (Galicia, Spain), May 9 - 13

• ATK Hackfest is coming! by API

GNOME Asia Hackfest, Bangalore, IN, Mar 30 - Apr 3

• Hosting GNOME 3.0 Hackfest + GNOME.Asia Summit 2011 in Bangalore, India, by Pockey Lam

• GNOME People starting to arrive in Bangalore, by Pockey Lam

• GNOME Asia Summit 2011 - Adventure Begins ;), by Chandni Verma

• GNOME 3 Hackfest, Day One, by Allan Day

• Now let me break stuff, by Andre Klapper

• GNOME.Asia 2011 – Day zero, by Bharath Acharya

• Bangalore Release Hackfest, by Frederic Peters

• Bangalore Hackfest – Day 1, by Pockey Lam

• GNOME 3 Hackfest, Day 3, by Allan Day

• Bangalore Hackfest – Day 2 & 3, by Pockey Lam

• 199 - 199, by Frederic Peters

• pre release craziness, by Ryan Lortie

• GNOME.Asia 2011 hackfest, by Josselin Mouette

• GNOME.Asia distribution collaboration session, by Josselin Mouette

• Bangalore Hackfest – Day 4 & 5, by Pockey Lam

• GNOME Asia Summit 2011, by Chandni Verma

• Bring us all the icecream that you have!, by Andre Klapper

• Cricket, cows and GNOME 3, by Lionel Dricot

• Bangalore wrap-up, by Allan Day

User Help,Toronto, CA, Mar 17 - Mar 22

• Desktop Help by Phil Bull

• Mallard can do that?! by Shaun McCance

• Toronto Hackfest by Johannes Schmid

• Hackfest - Toronto! by Natalia Ruz Leiva

Sysadmin, Los Angeles, CA USA Feb 25 - Feb 27

GNOME+Mono Hackfest 2011,Brussels, Belgium, Feb 7 - Feb 11

• GNOME+Mono hackfest day 1, by Joey Sneddon

• GNOME+Mono hackfest day 2+3, by Joey Sneddon

• Mono Hackfest & fosdem, by Olivier Dufour

Python Bindings Hackfest, Prague, CZ, January 17-21

• Working up the budgets for the GNOME Python Introspection hackfest, by John Palmieri (J5)

• Python ♥ GNOME Hackfest 2011, by Tomeu Vizoso.

• Na zdraví PyGI!, by Martin Pitt.

• Wrap-up: Python ⊕ GNOME Hackfest 2011, by Tomeu Vizoso.

• ✈ Prague, ♥ Python, by Sebastian Pölsterl.

• Hacking PyGObject in Prague, by Steve Frécinaux.

2010

WebKitGTK+ Hackfest, A Coruña (Galicia, Spain), December 5-12

• WebKitGTK Hackfest day 0, by Diego Escalante

• WebKitGTK Hackfest day 1, by Diego Escalante

• 3rd day of VebKitGTK+ hackfest, live from the cave, by Diego Escalante

• WebKitGTK+ hackfest, day 400, by Diego Escalante

• WebKitGTK+ hackfest, day 5, by Diego Escalante

Development Documentation and Tools Hackfest, Berlin (Germany), December 2-5

• The GNOME Development Documentation and Tools Hackfest, by Johannes Schmid

• DevDocs/Tools Hackfest day one; Handling lots of screenshots, by Phil Bull

• Hackfest Update, by Johannes Schmid

• some devdoc hackfest tidbits, by Daniel D. Siegel

• At the dev doc tools hackfest, by Frédéric Péters

• At the GNOME Dev Doc Tools Hackfest, by Andreas Nilsson

• Development Documentation and Tools Hackfest – wrap up, by Johannes Schmid

• GNOME Developer Demos; Terminology; HIG 3.0 in Mallard; Cheesy sounds?, by Phil Bull

• Gnome Development Documentation & Tools HackFest, by J. Pichon

• Some results from the dev doc tools hackfest, by Frédéric Péters

• GNOME Development Documentation and Tools Hackfest 2010, by Patricia Santana Cruz

• Developer Documentation Hackfest, by Shaun McCance

Snowy aka Tomboy Online Hackfest, Boston, MA USA, November 5-8

• Snowy hackfest & Boston Summit, by Jeff Fortin

• Thank you GNOME!, by Jeffrey Schroeder

• Thank you GNOME, by Leon Handreke

GTK+ Hackfest, A Coruña (Galicia, Spain), October 18-22

Accessibility during AEGIS conference, Seville (Spain), October

Marketing, Zaragoza (Spain), May 5-7

Python Bindings, Boston (MA, USA), April 14-18

• http://www.j5live.com/2010/04/14/caffeined-up-and-starting-to-hack/

• http://blog.verbum.org/2010/04/14/pygtk-performing-engine-maintenance-while-the-car-is-running/

• http://www.j5live.com/2010/04/14/gnome-python-hackfest-day-1/

• http://www.j5live.com/2010/04/15/gnome-python-hackfest-day-2-quick-roundup/

• Stay tuned...

GSettings, Boston (MA, USA), April 12-17

• http://www.vuntz.net/journal/post/2010/04/13/GSettings-Hackfest%3A-Day-1

• http://blogs.fedoraproject.org/wp/mclasen/2010/04/17/gsettings/

• Stay tuned...

Accessibility, San Diego (CA, USA), March 22-27

• http://osswatch.jiscinvolve.org/2010/03/25/report-from-the-csun-conference-in-san-diego/

• http://www.bryen.com/gnome-a11y-hackfest-update/

• http://monotonous.org/2010/03/25/more-accessibility-hackfest/

• http://monotonous.org/2010/03/27/phew/

• http://www.bryen.com/coolest-moment-at-a11y-conference/

• http://blogs.gnome.org/wwalker/2010/03/30/gnome-accessibility-hackfest/

• http://www.bagu.org/blog/2010/03/31/gnome-a11y-hackfest-at-csun/

• http://monotonous.org/2010/04/15/gnome-accessibility-at-csun-more-thoughts/

Desktop Help, Chicago (IL, USA), March 20-21

• Stay tuned...

Usability, London (UK), February 22-26

• Big summary by Brian Cameron of links to other blog posts: http://blogs.sun.com/yippi/entry/gnome_usability_hackfest_write_up

• http://jimmac.musichall.cz/log/?p=946

• http://blogs.gnome.org/seth/2010/02/26/let-the-wild-rumpus-begin/

• http://blogs.gnome.org/seth/2010/02/23/heres-the-takeaway-from-that-last-ramble/

• http://blogs.gnome.org/seth/2010/02/23/i-did-the-worst-design-of-my-life-within-gnome/

• http://blogs.gnome.org/seth/2010/02/23/morality-plays/

• http://blogs.sun.com/yippi/entry/gnome_usability_hackfest

• http://mairin.wordpress.com/2010/02/24/misc-notes-from-gnome-ux-hackfest-tuesday/

• http://mairin.wordpress.com/2010/02/24/gnome-vision-brainstorm/

• http://blogs.gnome.org/calum/2010/03/02/gnome-usability-hackfest/

• http://blogs.fedoraproject.org/wp/jperry/2010/03/03/usability-hackfest-2010-what-a-week/

• http://blogs.gnome.org/mccann/2010/03/03/above-the-clouds/

2009

WebKitGTK+, A Coruña (Spain), December 15-21

• http://blogs.gnome.org/xan/2009/12/15/webkitgtk-hackfest-day-zero/

• http://blogs.gnome.org/xan/2009/12/21/webkitgtk-hackfest-day-g_maxint/

• http://blog.kov.eti.br/?p=100

• http://www.twotoasts.de/index.php?/archives/25-Back-from-the-WebKitGTK+-hackfest.html

• http://base-art.net/Articles/112/

• http://blogs.igalia.com/mario/2009/12/21/webkitgtk-hackfest-is-over/

• http://danw.mysterion.org/2010/01/webkitgtk-hackfest/

• Reinout's reports: day 1, day 2, days 3 & 4, day 5

Video, Barcelona (Spain), November 19-22

• Notes

• Conclusions

• http://ickle.wordpress.com/2009/11/22/videohackfest/

• http://anholt.livejournal.com/41829.html

Marketing, Chicago (IL, USA), November 10-11

• Day 1 Summary

• Day 2 Summary

• http://www.stormyscorner.com/2009/11/gnome-marketing-hackfest.html

• http://www.silwenae.org/blog/?p=1251

• http://blogs.sun.com/yippi/entry/gnome_marketing_hackfest

• http://blogs.gnome.org/shaunm/2009/11/20/marketing-hackfest/

Zeitgeist, Bolzano (Italy), November 9-12

• Find more reports...

• http://natanyellin.com/2009/11/12/zeitgeist-hackfest-user-experience-team/

• http://bloc.eurion.net/archives/2009/zeitgeist-hackfest-report/

• http://einalex.mayanna.org/2009/11/12/zeitgeist-hackfest-in-bolzano/

• http://www.grillbar.org/wordpress/?p=411

• http://dz015.wordpress.com/2009/11/07/zeitgeist-hackfest/

Documentation, Owen Sound (Canada), June 12-14

• http://milocasagrande.wordpress.com/2009/06/13/woscon-day-1/

• http://milocasagrande.wordpress.com/2009/06/14/woscon-day-2/

• http://www.silwenae.org/blog/?p=1167

• http://www.silwenae.org/blog/?p=1171

• http://blogs.gnome.org/shaunm/2009/06/17/writing-open-source/

GTK+ Theming API, Dublin (Ireland), February 16-20

• Find more reports...

• http://blogs.gnome.org/thos/2009/02/19/dublin-hackfest/

• http://blogs.gnome.org/thos/2009/02/20/summary-of-ideas-from-the-dublin-hackfest/

• http://aruiz.typepad.com/siliconisland/2009/02/gtk-30-themin-1.html

2008

Cairo, Bolzano (Italy), November

• Find reports...

User Experience, Boston (MA, USA), October 6-10

• Find more reports...

• http://www.vuntz.net/journal/post/2008/10/22/494-desktop-shell-from-the-user-experience-hackfest-general-overview

• http://www.gnome.org/~federico/news-2008-10.html#gui-hackfest-file-management-1

GTK+, Berlin (Germany), March 10-14

• Find more reports...

• http://aruiz.typepad.com/siliconisland/2008/03/gtk-hackfest-20.html

• http://aruiz.typepad.com/siliconisland/2008/03/gtk-hackfest--1.html

• http://aruiz.typepad.com/siliconisland/2008/03/gtk-hack-fest-2.html

• http://cworth.org/gtk+/hackfest_2008_03_11/

• http://blogs.gnome.org/bratsche/2008/03/13/hello-from-berlin/