1. Hackfests in the GNOME-related world

The goal of this page is to track all hackfests happening in the GNOME-related world, and to keep some links to reports and conclusions of each event.

Want to organize a Hackfest? The new hackfest page has information and a step-by-step guide.

1.1. 2024

GTK/GLib Hackfest 2024

1.2. 2023

GNOME ♥ Rust 2023 hackfest Online

GTK Hackfest 2023

Shell & Display Next Hackfest 2023 Brno, Czechia - CY23H1

GNOME Mobile Hackfest Berlin, Germany

GNOME 45 Hackfest & Release Party Berlin, Germany

GStreamer Hackfest 2023 A Coruña, Spain

Open QA Hackfest

Infra Hackfest?

1.3. 2022

GNOME ♥ Rust 2022 hackfest Online

GNOME OS 2022 Berlin Hackfest Berlin, Germany

GNOME 43 Docs Hackfest August 2022 in USA?

Virtual Docs Hackfest 2022 February 25-27th

GStreamer Autumn Hackfest 2022 Barcelona, Spain - 17-18 October 2022

1.4. 2020

GNOME Design Tools Hackfest 2020 Berlin, Germany - March 24 - March 27

GNOME Extensions Hackfest 2020 , Portland, OR - TBD

GTK Hackfest 2020, Brussels, Belgium, before FOSDEM

Rust+GNOME 2020 Hackfest#7 Montréal, Apr 29th - May 3rd 2020 cancelled

1.5. 2019

GTK Hackfest 2019, Brussels, Belgium, after FOSDEM

GUADEC Websites 2019, Brussels, Belgium, before FOSDEM cancelled

Developer Center Hackfest 2019, Brussels, Belgium, after FOSDEM

Design Tooling Hackfest 2019, Berlin, Germany

Parental Controls and Metered Data Hackfest 2019, London, UK, March 18–21

Content Apps Hackfest 2019, Brno, Czech Republic, mid-May (tentative)

Rust+GNOME 2019 Hackfest #5, Berlin, Germany, May 09-12 2019

GStreamer Spring Hackfest 2019, Oslo, Norway, May 25-26 2019

West Coast Hackfest (GTK, Engagement and Documentation), Portland, Oregon, July 18-21st 2019

Gnome Shell Hackfest 2019, Leidschendam, The Netherlands, Oct 14th-16th 2019

Rust+GNOME 2019 Hackfest #6, Rome, Italy, October 19-23 2019

GStreamer Autumn Hackfest 2019, Lyon, France, 2-3 November 2019

PipeWire Hackfest 2019, Lyon, France, 2-3 November 2019

1.6. 2018

GTK+ Hackfest 2018, Brussels, Belgium, week of February 1st/2nd

GNOME Recipes 2018, Yogyakarta, Indonesia, Feb 28th to March 2nd

GNOME+Rust Hackfest #3, Location Madrid, 17th-20th of April

GStreamer Spring Hackfest 2018, Location Lund, 4th-6th of May

Fractal Hackfest 2018, Location Strasbourg, week of May 10th

Shell Performance Hackfest 2018, Cambridge (UK), 14th-16th of May

List Fest 2018, 10 — 14 September, Brno, Czech Republic Cancelled

Game Jam 2018, Montpellier, France, 15th - 21th October

GNOME Foundation Hackfest 2018, Cambridge (UK), 17th - 19th of October

GNOME+Rust Hackfest #4, Thessaloniki/Greece, 15th-18th of November

GStreamer Conference 2018 and GStreamer Autumn Hackfest, Edinburgh, Scotland, 25-28 October 2018

Pipewire 2018, Edinburgh, Scotland, 29-31 October 2018

Fractal December 2018, Seville, Spain 11-14 Decemeber 2018

1.7. 2017

GTK+ Hackfest 2017, London, UK, week of March 20

Rust 2017, Mexico City, Mexico, March 29-31

GStreamer Spring Hackfest 2017, A Coruña, Spain, May 20-21

Fractional Scaling 2017, Taipei, Taiwan, Week of 5 June

Games Hackfest 2017, Norwich, UK, date TBA

GNOME Foundation Hackfest 2017, Berlin, Germany, October 6-8

GStreamer Autumn Hackfest 2017, Prague, Czech Republic, October 19-20

Rust+GNOME 2017 Hackfest#2, Berlin, Germany, Nov 10-12

UX Hackfest 2017, London, UK, November 14-17

1.8. 2016

Yelp Hackfest

User Experience Design Hackfest, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, January 19-22

Developer experience hackfest, Brussels, Belgium, January 27-29

HACKGNOMECAMP 2016, Lima, Peru, February 27, March 04-06

GNOME Software 2016, London, UK, 4-8 April

GStreamer Spring Hackfest 2016, Thessaloniki, Greece, May 13-15

GTK+ Hackfest 2016, Toronto, Canada, June 13-16

GStreamer Autumn Hackfest 2016, Berlin, Germany, October 8-9

Core Apps Hackfest 2016, Berlin, Germany, November 25-27

1.9. 2015

Docs hackfest, Cambridge, UK, January 24-29

Developer Experience 2015, Cambridge, England, January 25–29

GStreamer Hackfest, London, UK, March 13-15

GNOME PERU FEST 2015, Lima, Peru, March 13 th at Centro Cultural PetroPeru

West Coast Summit, San Francisco, USA, June 29 - July 1st

GStreamer Summer Hackfest 2015, Montpellier, France, 14th to 16th of August 2015

Open Help docs hackfest 2015, Cincinnati, OH, USA, September 28-30

GUADEC organising hackfest, Karlsruhe, Germany, November 21-22

Content Apps 2015, Madrid, Spain, December 2-4

1.10. 2014

Docs hackfest, Norwich, UK, January 26-30

GStreamer Hackfest 2014, Munich, Germany, March 14 - 16

Translation hackfest, Paris, France, March 15-16

GNOME PERU FEST 2014, Lima, Perú. March 29 th

Freedesktop Summit 2014, Nürnberg, Germany, March 31 - April 4

West Coast Summit, San Francisco, USA, April 9 - April 11

Developer Experience 2014, Berlin, Germany, April 29 - May 1

Location Hackfest, London, UK. May 23-25

Open Help docs hackfest 2014, Cincinnati, OH, USA, June 14 - 15

Evince Hackfest, Strasbourg, France. July 23 - 25

2014 Web Engines Hackfest, A Coruña, Spain. December 7 - 10

1.11. 2013

India Hackfest 2013, Pune, India, dates tbc

Brno Docs hackfest 2013, Brno, Czech Republic, February 23 - 27

• http://blogs.gnome.org/kittykat/2013/02/25/documentation-sprint-in-brno/

• http://amigadave.com/blog/#brno_documentation_hackfest_2013_2013-02-28

GNOME Developer Experience Hackfest 2013, Brussels, Belgium

Freedesktop Summit, Nuremberg, Germany

GNOME PERU FEST 2013, Lima, Perú. April 14

GTK+ Hackfest Spring 2013, Westford, MA, USA, April 19 - 24

Marketing Hackfest 2013, New York, USA, June 3 - 5

Open Help docs hackfest 2013, Cincinnati, OH, USA, June 17 - 19

• http://blogs.gnome.org/kittykat/2013/06/16/open-help-part-1/

• http://blogs.gnome.org/kittykat/2013/06/23/open-help-part-2/

• http://blogs.gnome.org/kittykat/2013/06/27/open-help-part-3/

• http://blogs.gnome.org/mdhill/2013/07/01/docs-hackfest-at-open-help-2013/

• http://caseyweederman.com/gamedev/index.php?date=2013-06-19

• http://www.tcloc.com/open-help-2013/

• http://www.tcloc.com/open-help-docs-hackfest-2013/

• http://amigadave.com/blog/#open_help_2013_conference_2013-06-22

• http://amigadave.com/blog/#open_help_2013_hackfests_2013-06-23

• http://blogs.gnome.org/desrt/2015/01/29/how-do-i/

Maps Hackfest 2013, Gothenburg, Sweden, June 17 - 19

System Settings at GUADEC, Brno, Czech Republic, August 5

Docs hackfest/BoF at GUADEC, Brno, Czech Republic, August 5 - 8

.NET + GNOME Hackfest 2013, Vienna, Austria, October 8 - 13

Dia GNOME 2013 Chile, Temuco, Chile, 9 de Noviembre

WebKitGTK+ Hackfest 2013, A Coruña, Galicia. December 8th - December 11th

1.12. 2012

ATK/AT-SPI2 Hackfest 2012, A Coruña, Spain, January 18 - 22

• Hackfest announcement in GNOME news

• ATK/AT-SPI2 Hackfest 2012: Day 1 by Alejandro Piñeiro

• caching in AT-SPI by Mike Gorse

• Accessibility support in WebKit2GTK+ by Mario Sánchez Prada

• Photo set by Mario Sánchez Prada

• GNOME plans an accessibility push for 2012 by Nathan Willis for LWN.net

• Excellent Progress Made at GNOME Accessibility Hackfest in GNOME news

• GNOME Accesibility Hackfest interview by Koudaras Konstantinos & Izabel Valverde for openSUSE news

GStreamer Hackfest 2012, Malaga, Spain, January 25 - 27

GTK+ Hackfest at Developer Conference 2012, Brno, Czech Republic, February 17 - 21

• http://blogs.gnome.org/ebassi/2012/02/16/bridges-and-balloons/

• http://blogs.gnome.org/ebassi/2012/02/17/youth-and-beauty-brigade/

• http://blogs.gnome.org/ebassi/2012/02/18/an-interlude/

• http://blogs.gnome.org/mclasen/2012/02/18/hackfest-stop-1/

• http://blogs.gnome.org/ebassi/2012/02/19/from-my-own-true-love-lost-at-sea/

• http://erikos.sweettimez.de/2012/02/23/gtk-hackfest-brno/

• http://blogs.gnome.org/desrt/2012/02/26/sprout-and-the-bean/

• http://blogs.gnome.org/mclasen/2012/03/02/gtk-hackfest-aftermath/

Brno Docs Hackfest 2012, Brno, Czech Republic, February 17 - 21

• http://blog.tomeuvizoso.net/2012/02/documentation-hackfest-in-brno-2012.html

• http://blog.tomeuvizoso.net/2012/02/docs-hackfest-starting-point.html

• http://blogs.gnome.org/aklapper/2012/02/19/gnome-documentation-hackfest/

• http://mdhill.posterous.com/brno-hackfest

• http://blog.tomeuvizoso.net/2012/02/progress-on-generating-python-api-docs.html

• http://blogs.gnome.org/aklapper/2012/02/20/the-book-of-right-on/

• GNOME Docs Hackfest, Brno 2012 by Julita Inca

• http://www.damnpeople.fr/2012/02/26/february-gnome-activities-digest/

• http://blogs.gnome.org/kittykat/2012/02/28/gnome-documentation-hackfest-in-brno/

• http://mdhill.posterous.com/more-hackfest-photos

• https://cannonerd.wordpress.com/2012/03/07/a-leap-from-user-to-developer-status-landing-gears-down/

• http://mimico-tiffany.tumblr.com/post/18920867736

• http://philbull.livejournal.com/60292.html

LinuxCamp 2012, Lima, Peru, May 26

• LinuxCamp 2012 - GNOME Release Party 3.4 by Julita Inca

A Coruña UX Hackfest 2012, July 24 & 25

Open Help docs hackfest 2012, Cincinnati, OH, USA, August 13 - 15

Orlando User Observation Hackfest 2012, Orlando/Florida, USA, September 21 - 23

Chicago GNOME Hackfest Series 2012 - 13, Chicago, IL, USA, monthly 2012 - 13

Linux Color Management Hackfest 2012, Brno, Czech Republic, 9th - 12th November 2012

WebKitGTK+ Hackfest 2012, A Coruña, Galicia. December 9th - December 12th

1.13. 2011

Python Bindings Hackfest, Prague, CZ, January 17-21

• Working up the budgets for the GNOME Python Introspection hackfest, by John Palmieri (J5)

• Python ♥ GNOME Hackfest 2011, by Tomeu Vizoso.

• Na zdraví PyGI!, by Martin Pitt.

• Wrap-up: Python ⊕ GNOME Hackfest 2011, by Tomeu Vizoso.

• ✈ Prague, ♥ Python, by Sebastian Pölsterl.

• Hacking PyGObject in Prague, by Steve Frécinaux.

GNOME+Mono Hackfest 2011,Brussels, Belgium, Feb 7 - Feb 11

• GNOME+Mono hackfest day 1, by Joey Sneddon

• GNOME+Mono hackfest day 2+3, by Joey Sneddon

• Mono Hackfest & fosdem, by Olivier Dufour

Sysadmin, Los Angeles, CA USA Feb 25 - Feb 27

User Help,Toronto, CA, Mar 17 - Mar 22

• Desktop Help by Phil Bull

• Mallard can do that?! by Shaun McCance

• Toronto Hackfest by Johannes Schmid

• Hackfest - Toronto! by Natalia Ruz Leiva

GNOME Asia Hackfest, Bangalore, IN, Mar 30 - Apr 3

• Hosting GNOME 3.0 Hackfest + GNOME.Asia Summit 2011 in Bangalore, India, by Pockey Lam

• GNOME People starting to arrive in Bangalore, by Pockey Lam

• GNOME Asia Summit 2011 - Adventure Begins ;), by Chandni Verma

• GNOME 3 Hackfest, Day One, by Allan Day

• Now let me break stuff, by Andre Klapper

• GNOME.Asia 2011 – Day zero, by Bharath Acharya

• Bangalore Release Hackfest, by Frederic Peters

• Bangalore Hackfest – Day 1, by Pockey Lam

• GNOME 3 Hackfest, Day 3, by Allan Day

• Bangalore Hackfest – Day 2 & 3, by Pockey Lam

• 199 - 199, by Frederic Peters

• pre release craziness, by Ryan Lortie

• GNOME.Asia 2011 hackfest, by Josselin Mouette

• GNOME.Asia distribution collaboration session, by Josselin Mouette

• Bangalore Hackfest – Day 4 & 5, by Pockey Lam

• GNOME Asia Summit 2011, by Chandni Verma

• Bring us all the icecream that you have!, by Andre Klapper

• Cricket, cows and GNOME 3, by Lionel Dricot

• Bangalore wrap-up, by Allan Day

ATK Hackfest, A Coruña (Galicia, Spain), May 9 - 13

• ATK Hackfest is coming! by API

Open Help 2011, Cincinnati, OH, USA, June 6 - 8

• Open Help Conference, June 3-5 in Cincinnati, OH by Kelly Sinnott

• First report – Gnome Women Outreach Program 2011 by Julita Inca

• Open Help Conference and Hackfest by Tiffany Antopolski

• Open Help 2011 - Cincinnati by Phil Bull

IM, Contacts & Social hackfest, Cambridge, UK, June 13 - 17

• End of the hackfest by Philip Withnall

• IM, Contacts and Social Hackfest, final day by Bastien Nocera

• Instant messaging hackfest at Collabora office by Christian Schaller

• Empathy and GNOME Online Accounts by Danielle Madeley

• IM, Contacts and Social Hackfest, day one by Bastien Nocera

• IM, Contacts & Social hackfest by Philip Withnall

• heading to IM, Contacts and Social hackfest by Danielle Madeley

• IM, Contacts & Social hackfest by Guillaume Desmottes

GObject-introspection Hackfest, Berlin, August 10 - 15

• GObject Introspection hackfest in Berlin by Tomeu Vizoso

GStreamer Hackfest, Prague, Czech Republic, October 24 - 25

• WebKitGTK+ hackfest wrapup: accelerated compositing by Martin Robinson

• Highlights of WebKit GTK hackfest by Nayan Kumar

• WebKitGTK+ hackfest \o/ by Gustavo Noronha Silva

• WebKitGTK+ Hackfest: WK2, a11y and Ephiphany’s ad blocker extension by Mario Sánchez Prada

• WebKitGTK+ Hackfest: Day 5 by Bastien Nocera

• WebKitGTK+ hackfest wrap up by Juanjo Sánchez

• A new design for Epiphany: Web by Xan López

• Open web apps and device APIs by by Juanjo Sánchez

• webkittens! lexical scoping is in danger! by Andy Wingo

• Vegas baby by Bastien Nocera

• WebKitGTK+ Hackfest: Day 4 by Bastien Nocera

• WebKitGTK+ Hackfest: Day 3 by Bastien Nocera

• WebKitGTK+ Hackfest: Day 2 by Bastien Nocera

• WebKitGTK+ Hackfest: Day 1, Afternoon by Bastien Nocera

• WebKitGTK+ Hackfest: Day 1, morning by Bastien Nocera

• Accelerated Compositing in webkit-clutter by Gustavo Noronha Silva

• Photo set by Mario Sánchez Prada

• Photo set by Nayan Kumar

WebKitGTK+ Hackfest, A Coruña, Galicia, November 29th - December 5th

1.14. 2010

Usability, London (UK), February 22-26

• Big summary by Brian Cameron of links to other blog posts: http://blogs.sun.com/yippi/entry/gnome_usability_hackfest_write_up

• http://jimmac.musichall.cz/log/?p=946

• http://blogs.gnome.org/seth/2010/02/26/let-the-wild-rumpus-begin/

• http://blogs.gnome.org/seth/2010/02/23/heres-the-takeaway-from-that-last-ramble/

• http://blogs.gnome.org/seth/2010/02/23/i-did-the-worst-design-of-my-life-within-gnome/

• http://blogs.gnome.org/seth/2010/02/23/morality-plays/

• http://blogs.sun.com/yippi/entry/gnome_usability_hackfest

• http://mairin.wordpress.com/2010/02/24/misc-notes-from-gnome-ux-hackfest-tuesday/

• http://mairin.wordpress.com/2010/02/24/gnome-vision-brainstorm/

• http://blogs.gnome.org/calum/2010/03/02/gnome-usability-hackfest/

• http://blogs.fedoraproject.org/wp/jperry/2010/03/03/usability-hackfest-2010-what-a-week/

• http://blogs.gnome.org/mccann/2010/03/03/above-the-clouds/

Desktop Help, Chicago (IL, USA), March 20 - 21

Accessibility, San Diego (CA, USA), March 22 - 27

• http://osswatch.jiscinvolve.org/2010/03/25/report-from-the-csun-conference-in-san-diego/

• http://www.bryen.com/gnome-a11y-hackfest-update/

• http://monotonous.org/2010/03/25/more-accessibility-hackfest/

• http://monotonous.org/2010/03/27/phew/

• http://www.bryen.com/coolest-moment-at-a11y-conference/

• http://blogs.gnome.org/wwalker/2010/03/30/gnome-accessibility-hackfest/

• http://www.bagu.org/blog/2010/03/31/gnome-a11y-hackfest-at-csun/

• http://monotonous.org/2010/04/15/gnome-accessibility-at-csun-more-thoughts/

GSettings, Boston (MA, USA), April 12 - 17

• http://www.vuntz.net/journal/post/2010/04/13/GSettings-Hackfest%3A-Day-1

• http://blogs.fedoraproject.org/wp/mclasen/2010/04/17/gsettings/

• Stay tuned...

Python Bindings, Boston (MA, USA), April 14 - 18

• http://www.j5live.com/2010/04/14/caffeined-up-and-starting-to-hack/

• http://blog.verbum.org/2010/04/14/pygtk-performing-engine-maintenance-while-the-car-is-running/

• http://www.j5live.com/2010/04/14/gnome-python-hackfest-day-1/

• http://www.j5live.com/2010/04/15/gnome-python-hackfest-day-2-quick-roundup/

• Stay tuned...

Marketing, Zaragoza, Spain, May 5 - 7

Accessibility during AEGIS conference, Seville Spain), October

GTK+ Hackfest, A Coruña, Spain), October 18 - 22

Snowy aka Tomboy Online Hackfest, Boston, MA USA, November 5 - 8

• Snowy hackfest & Boston Summit, by Jeff Fortin

• Thank you GNOME!, by Jeffrey Schroeder

• Thank you GNOME, by Leon Handreke

Development Documentation and Tools Hackfest, Berlin (Germany), December 2-5

• The GNOME Development Documentation and Tools Hackfest, by Johannes Schmid

• DevDocs/Tools Hackfest day one; Handling lots of screenshots, by Phil Bull

• Hackfest Update, by Johannes Schmid

• some devdoc hackfest tidbits, by Daniel D. Siegel

• At the dev doc tools hackfest, by Frédéric Péters

• At the GNOME Dev Doc Tools Hackfest, by Andreas Nilsson

• Development Documentation and Tools Hackfest – wrap up, by Johannes Schmid

• GNOME Developer Demos; Terminology; HIG 3.0 in Mallard; Cheesy sounds?, by Phil Bull

• Gnome Development Documentation & Tools HackFest, by J. Pichon

• Some results from the dev doc tools hackfest, by Frédéric Péters

• GNOME Development Documentation and Tools Hackfest 2010, by Patricia Santana Cruz

• Developer Documentation Hackfest, by Shaun McCance

WebKitGTK+ Hackfest, A Coruña (Galicia, Spain), December 5 - 12

• WebKitGTK Hackfest day 0, by Diego Escalante

• WebKitGTK Hackfest day 1, by Diego Escalante

• 3rd day of VebKitGTK+ hackfest, live from the cave, by Diego Escalante

• WebKitGTK+ hackfest, day 400, by Diego Escalante

• WebKitGTK+ hackfest, day 5, by Diego Escalante

1.15. 2009

GTK+ Theming API, Dublin (Ireland), February 16-20

• Find more reports...

• http://blogs.gnome.org/thos/2009/02/19/dublin-hackfest/

• http://blogs.gnome.org/thos/2009/02/20/summary-of-ideas-from-the-dublin-hackfest/

• http://aruiz.typepad.com/siliconisland/2009/02/gtk-30-themin-1.html

Documentation, Owen Sound (Canada), June 12-14

• http://milocasagrande.wordpress.com/2009/06/13/woscon-day-1/

• http://milocasagrande.wordpress.com/2009/06/14/woscon-day-2/

• http://www.silwenae.org/blog/?p=1167

• http://www.silwenae.org/blog/?p=1171

• http://blogs.gnome.org/shaunm/2009/06/17/writing-open-source/

Zeitgeist, Bolzano (Italy), November 9 - 12,

• Find more reports...

• http://natanyellin.com/2009/11/12/zeitgeist-hackfest-user-experience-team/

• http://bloc.eurion.net/archives/2009/zeitgeist-hackfest-report/

• http://einalex.mayanna.org/2009/11/12/zeitgeist-hackfest-in-bolzano/

• http://www.grillbar.org/wordpress/?p=411

• http://dz015.wordpress.com/2009/11/07/zeitgeist-hackfest/

Marketing, Chicago (IL, USA), November 10 - 11

• Day 1 Summary

• Day 2 Summary

• http://www.stormyscorner.com/2009/11/gnome-marketing-hackfest.html

• http://www.silwenae.org/blog/?p=1251

• http://blogs.sun.com/yippi/entry/gnome_marketing_hackfest

• http://blogs.gnome.org/shaunm/2009/11/20/marketing-hackfest/

WebKitGTK+, A Coruña, Spain, December 15 - 21

• http://blogs.gnome.org/xan/2009/12/15/webkitgtk-hackfest-day-zero/

• http://blogs.gnome.org/xan/2009/12/21/webkitgtk-hackfest-day-g_maxint/

• http://blog.kov.eti.br/?p=100

• http://www.twotoasts.de/index.php?/archives/25-Back-from-the-WebKitGTK+-hackfest.html

• http://base-art.net/Articles/112/

• http://blogs.igalia.com/mario/2009/12/21/webkitgtk-hackfest-is-over/

• http://danw.mysterion.org/2010/01/webkitgtk-hackfest/

• Reinout's reports: day 1, day 2, days 3 & 4, day 5

Video, Barcelona, Spain, November 19 - 22

• Notes

• Conclusions

• http://ickle.wordpress.com/2009/11/22/videohackfest/

• http://anholt.livejournal.com/41829.html

1.16. 2008

GTK+, Berlin (Germany), March 10-14

• http://aruiz.typepad.com/siliconisland/2008/03/gtk-hackfest-20.html

• http://aruiz.typepad.com/siliconisland/2008/03/gtk-hackfest--1.html

• http://aruiz.typepad.com/siliconisland/2008/03/gtk-hack-fest-2.html

• http://cworth.org/gtk+/hackfest_2008_03_11/

• http://blogs.gnome.org/bratsche/2008/03/13/hello-from-berlin/

Cairo, Bolzano, Italy, November 9 - 15

User Experience, Boston (MA, USA), October 6 - 10

• http://www.vuntz.net/journal/post/2008/10/22/494-desktop-shell-from-the-user-experience-hackfest-general-overview

• http://www.gnome.org/~federico/news-2008-10.html#gui-hackfest-file-management-1