IETF sounds like a more appropriate venue.
They already do organize one: https://datatracker.ietf.org/meeting/94/agenda.html
Edmon
From: ua-discuss-bounces@icann.org [mailto:ua-discuss-bounces@icann.org] On Behalf Of Dusan Stojicevic
Sent: Saturday, November 7, 2015 7:19 AM
To: ua-discuss@icann.org
Subject: Re: [UA-discuss] Hackathon @ ICANN55
Dear all,
Every event can be a place for Hackathon. There are Hackathons as a side events on school, scientific and education events, on fairs... even as a standalone events.
Crucial questions are:
1. Can we gather programmers on this Hackathon?
It's rather easy to organize Hackathon on IETF meetings... but on ICANN meeting? Don't expect to find programmers among participants of ICANN meetings. We could have some locals, but we need to invest money to bring them there (travel and accommodation support at least). How much is that, roughly?
2. If we do so, Hackathon will be side event and first of this kind on ICANN meetings. This fact can trigger huge interest among ICANN participants, if we do good work with PR (especially announcing event). Let say - we can handle that well. But - we better have something useful as a result of this Hackathon (good apps or whatever), or it will be complete fiasco. Empty story in PR sense. And right to left writings in Maroko, this is nice idea. So, we need GOOOD programers (money), GOOOD PR campaign (money) and GOOOD results (depends on the money spent on first two things in sentence). And the real question is> How much money we need for this and will ICANN this amount of money?
If they want to pay all that - let's have Hackathon, I am in and volunteering to help.
(Every problem can be solved with the money. If the problem cannot be solved with the money, it can be solved with large amount of money ;) )
My two cents
Dusan
On 6.11.2015 19:02, Mark Svancarek wrote:
Marrakech as a city for a hackathon makes sense to me, but ICANN 55 as a venue does not.
From: Rubens Kuhl [mailto:rubensk@nic.br]
Sent: Friday, November 6, 2015 9:50 AM
To: Mark Svancarek
Cc: Richard Merdinger; Ram Mohan; Don Hollander; UA-discuss@icann.org
Subject: Re: [UA-discuss] Hackathon @ ICANN55
That depends on target mission; if the Hackathon goal would be to develop or fix software for right-to-left scripts like Arabic, Marrakech sounds like a good place. If it's something more generic like new gTLDs acceptance, then not.
Rubens
Em 6 de nov de 2015, à(s) 15:41:000, Mark Svancarek <marksv@microsoft.com> escreveu:
I do like the idea of a hackathon, but not at ICANN. These might have been better:
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From: ua-discuss-bounces@icann.org [mailto:ua-discuss-bounces@icann.org] On Behalf Of Richard Merdinger
Sent: Friday, November 6, 2015 8:56 AM
To: Ram Mohan; Don Hollander; UA-discuss@icann.org
Subject: Re: [UA-discuss] Hackathon @ ICANN55
All,
Unfortunately, I agree with Ram here. I want to get excited about how we can accomplish such an event that will achieve some “needle-moving” results. That said, I’m not sure what we would be “hacking” on yet. Also agree on the question of ICANN as an event being thee right location for such an effort once-defined.
I suggest we not rush this concept, but continue to have ongoing open discussion regarding it as part of the combined UASG project teams with a goal of defining the event concept by Marrakech.
Thoughts always appreciated,
--Rich
From: ua-discuss-bounces@icann.org [mailto:ua-discuss-bounces@icann.org] On Behalf Of Ram Mohan
Sent: Friday, November 06, 2015 10:29 AM
To: Don Hollander <don.hollander@icann.org>; UA-discuss@icann.org
Subject: Re: [UA-discuss] Hackathon @ ICANN55
I’m skeptical of the success of a hackathon in Marrakesh, or indeed at an ICANN meeting. It needs developers, not policy people to make it successful.
The probability of success will increase if co-located with a more developer friendly meeting, or in a University setting.
-Ram
From: Don Hollander [mailto:don.hollander@icann.org]
Sent: Friday, November 06, 2015 12:09 AM
To: UA-discuss@icann.org
Subject: [UA-discuss] Hackathon @ ICANN55
ICANN, through Cyrus Namazi, has raised the idea of supporting a “Hackathon” in conjunction with ICANN55 in Morocco.
A “Hackathon” is where a bunch of geeks gather for a short period of time – one or two days – and code to solve problems.
At the UA Discuss call yesterday there was strong interest in supporting such an event, but we ran out of time to reach any meaningful conclusion.
So, this thread is to instigate discussion, ideas, and volunteers to help drive it forward.
Your thoughts, please….
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