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Hack Sessions

DevStaff members occasionally organise Hack Sessions on various topics. The Org Team will help with great pleasure to organize a Hack Session and create an event on meetup.com for the session!

How to Start a Hack Session

Anyone can start a Hack Session! It's a good idea to have found at least one other interested member before opening an issue. The issue MUST contain:

  • 'hack session' in its title
  • A host (you?)
  • A proposed place
  • A proposed date
  • A limit on attendees
  • Some prerequisites such as attendees experience, tools to be installed, tutorials to be followed before the session etc.

Hints

  • 8 attendees/laptops is good limit to start. Above this limit, you need more advanced organisational level, more strict planning, create groups, more facilitators etc.
  • Keep it at least 3-4 hours long, or it may be unproductive
  • At the first session we worked on 7 Digital Ocean VMs and we experienced no network issues
  • Create a Slack channel and add the participants! You need to share data quickly
  • It helps (a lot) to have a whiteboard and a projector/large screen
  • It helps (a lot) that everybody has done their homework (examples, tutorials etc). Prerequisites are important for the success of the session!