Announcing the Chicago Hackathon 2006, Nov 10-12
Mon, 28-Aug-2006 by
Andy Lester
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The <a href="http://chicago.pm.org/">Chicago Perl Mongers</A> and
<a href="http://www.perlfoundation.org/">The Perl Foundation</a> are proud to announce the Fall 2006 Chicago Hackathon, the
weekend of November 10-12, 2006 in suburban Crystal Lake, IL. It will be
a round-the-clock weekend of programming on Perl-related projects with
your colleagues in the open source community. Dozens of programmers
from the open source community in the midwest, as well as others from
around the US, will be getting together to share ideas, work on code,
and move their
<a href="http://hackathon.info/projects/">Perl-related projects</a> forward.
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The participants set the agenda for what we'll be working on, but Perl
6 and Parrot are already on the roster of projects. Chip Salzenberg,
pumpking for the
<a href="http://parrotcode.org/">Parrot project</a>, will be on hand
to help with Parrot and Perl 6. Andy Lester will also be driving
some Parrot maintenance tasks, and other midwest programmers will
be working on their own projects. There's sure to be something
interesting for everyone!
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Participation in the hackathon costs nothing.
<a href="http://www.perlfoundation.org/">The Perl Foundation</a>
is even providing hotel rooms at a special rate if you want to spend
the night. Even if you're in the area for just an hour, stop by,
grab a snack or some pizza and talk with other people interested
in Perl. You might contribute more than you think just by talking with
other programmers.
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To find out more, visit <a href="http://hackathon.info">http://hackathon.info</a>.
If you'll be attending, please sign in on the
<a href="http://rakudo.org/hackathon-chicago/index.cgi?Attendees">Attendees</a>
wiki page, and/or email
<tt><a href="mailto:rsvp@hackathon.info">rsvp@hackathon.info</a></tt>.
You can also send questions to Andy Lester at
<tt><a href="mailto:andy@hackathon.info">andy@hackathon.info</a></tt>
#hackathon
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