1. Chicago GNOME Hackfest Series

The Chicago GNOME community is hosting monthly GNOME hackfests in 2012-2013. The purpose of the hackfest series is to encourage and support established developers and newcomers to the GNOME community; to provide a space to work on individual contributions to GNOME; to facilitate exchange of information through monthly talks; and to have fun hacking.

Events are being held monthly at Pumping Station: One, the local hackerspace in Chicago.The address is 3519 N. Elston, Chicago, IL 60618.

1.1. Resources:

If this is your first time attending an event, or would like to learn more about hacking, please look at the following resources:

• Newcomers Tutorial

• GNOME Intro (slides)

• GNOME Love

• Developer Center Tutorials

• JHBuild, for building software for development and testing

  • Blog post on JHBuild

  • GNOME Love Intro to JHBuild

• Intro to GNU Emacs By Chris Webber

• Instructions for building and running GNOME Documents

If you have questions, you can ask at the hackfest or on #chiglug on freenode. For gnome questions, you can ask on the #gnome-love IRC channel.

1.2. Organizers:

• MegFord

• JimCampbell

• BrianCameron

• Chris Webber

1.3. Contact and Event Information:

• chicagolinux-discuss AT googlegroups DOT com

• Website

• Google Plus

• Identi.ca

• Twitter

1.4. Upcoming Events:

• Flourish! Conference April 12 - 13Info and registration!

1.5. Past Events:

• Software Freedom Day Chicago -- talks and hackfest

• GNIGHTS of GNOME Hackfest #1!

• Hackfest #1 report

• GNIGHTS of GNOME Hackfest #2

• Hackfest #2 report

• Hackfest #3 report

• Chicagoans Hacking on GNOME 4th Meeting (announcement)

• Hackfest 4 Report

• Hackfest 5 Announcement

• Hackfest 5 Report