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OpenBSD hackathons

by jorgecastillo on 4/11/16, 5:02 PM with 27 comments

• by gnuvince on 4/11/16, 11:12 PM

  OpenBSD hackathons are why I'm so bummed by the corporate-sponsored "hackathons" that are often organized at my university: instead of improving a major open source project that is of use to everyone (including people in academia), it's mostly about "please test our API and show us the cool thing we could build with it". I absolutely adore the focus that OpenBSD hackathons have and how they benefit the whole community.

• by openbsd42 on 4/12/16, 6:11 AM

  http://www.openbsdfoundation.org/contributors.html

  No YC, no Sequoia, no Andreessen Horowitz or other major VC, despite VC-backed companies often using OSS exclusively, and VCs being awash in cash and likely also being clued-in enough to actually realize just how much they rely on OSS: http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Marc-Andreessen-The-Clock...

• by occam65 on 4/11/16, 5:52 PM

  I love the focus on a particular topic or theme. "Reduce code fat!" for example. I've been to far too many general hackathons where the scope was so broad that the productivity of the hackathon itself was minimal, or even zero.

• by darkengine on 4/11/16, 5:42 PM

  I'd kill for one of those UTF-8 shirts.

  http://www.openbsd.org/images/hackathons/u2k15.gif

• by brynet on 4/11/16, 5:26 PM

  Well.. if you enjoyed the hackathon artwork.

  http://www.openbsd.org/lyrics.html

• by liveoneggs on 4/11/16, 6:39 PM

  openbsd has great art

• by systems on 4/11/16, 6:33 PM

  the canadian os