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HackWeek: Learn | Combine | Share

HackWeek is a SUSE way of Hackathon, which is usually one full week long. This time it's actually six days, overlaping one day with openSUSE conference in Nürnberg.

Who | When | How

• Anyone at SUSE can participate, but we also encourage the community to join us too - in a team or alone, whatever works for you
• 24th June - 1st July 2016
• Depending on your local conditions, but basically you just come to work, look around, and start hacking

HackWeek Theme

HackWeek #14 is a bit special, this time we have several suggested themes:

• NFV - Network function virtualization
• Cloud
• Storage
• Orchestration
• ... and obviously their combinations or in combination with other current SUSE solutions

Current Projects

All current projects can be found at HackWeek Pages but you are kindly asked to create new projects there as well.

Create New Project

You have a great idea what could be done, but you just have two hands? You have a plenty of great ideas, but you can just work on two of them in parallel? You are looking for contributors? Anything else? Just go to the HackWeek Page and file it there. Obviously, even if you want to work on a project just yourself, it's usually a good idea to file it there - maybe someone could point you to more information they know, maybe their comment could bring even a better idea. Who knows?

Communication

If you have anything to share with others, share it. Talk to people :)

For a specific project, it's usually good idea to use a specific communication channel, but a good starting point could be IRC at irc.freenode.net, channel #hackweek (or #suse as a fallback).

HackWeek organizers also listen to you at mailing-list hackweek\Q/suse.de.

Sharing

We encourage you to share details of your project. Blog about it, tweet about it, chat about it. Even a small talk in the kitchen can help you find some hardware or contributors.

Open Jobs | Help Needed!

We are looking for volunteers

• Thunder Organizer: Someone who would organize and encourage people for giving lightning talks at their location
• Journalist: Someone who would write daily blogs about HackWeek in general, about projects in progress, about people ...

FAQ

So, what is this HackWeek thing?

Basically anything. You can work on any great idea, new software project, new design of our current projects, combination of our current projects, ...

I have no idea what to do.

Get inspired by the HackWeek Theme or go directly to HackWeek Pages and find a project that you like.

To Do

• Some pieces of this information to HackWeek Wiki
• Move the rest to a new landing page for HackWeek 14