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Developer Experience Hackfest, 2015
Collabora, Cambridge, England: 25–29 January 2015
Primary contact: PhilipWithnall <philip tecnocode co.uk>
Secondary contact: AllanDay
Relevant GNOME team
GTK+, GLib, documentation developers
Description
Following on from the successful 2014 DX hackfest, this event aims to continue the tradition of pushing forward roadmaps for the toolkit and developer experience. This year’s event will be co-hosted with a documentation hackfest, allowing some crossover between developer and user documentation planning.
The hackfest will be held immediately before FOSDEM, giving people a day to travel over to Brussels afterwards.
People will be jumping in and out of #dev-x on irc.gnome.org; the docs team will be on #docs on the same server.
Goals
As with last year’s event, all aspects of the GNOME application developer experience are in scope, including:
- GTK+ — roadmap for the toolkit, discussion on what new features are required and a timetable for their execution, GL work
Tools — including Builder, editors, Glade, DevHelp and so on.
- Developer documentation — generated API reference docs, hand-written tutorials and the developer centre website.
- Apps work and application templates
Co-located work with the docs hackfest
The central aim of this hackfest is to agree on an actionable plan for the next year for each area of the developer experience, including a GTK+ roadmap, a continued plan for Builder, and continued integration of the GL work in GTK+.
Schedule
People are free to arrive earlier or leave later, and spend time in the office hacking on things. A tentative schedule:
- 25th: Introduction, coordinating up with the docs team
- 26th: GTK+ roadmap
- 27th: Builder roadmap
- 28th: Apps planning
29th: Left free for later scheduling
Agenda
Specific items to address during the hackfest (feel free to add to the list), which should be taken as a measure of success:
Come up with an official story about if/how apps are supposed to interact with the theme for styling custom widgets. See also https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=732959.
- (yours here)
Attendees
Note that docs hackfest attendees are listed on the docs hackfest page.
Name |
Relevant contribution/aim |
Foundation member? |
Arrives on |
Departs on |
Flight cost |
Accommodation cost |
Total sponsorship request |
Toolkit and dev. tools |
✓ |
Resident |
Resident |
0 |
0 |
0 |
|
Toolkit and Apps |
✓ |
Late 25th |
29th |
130 Euro |
? |
? |
|
Builder |
✓ |
25th |
30th |
$1000 |
$250 |
? |
|
Toolkit and Apps |
✓ |
25th |
30th |
$1000 |
$250 |
? |
|
Toolkit and dev tools |
✓ |
Resident |
Resident |
0 |
? |
? |
|
Toolkit and Apps |
😞 |
Resident |
Resident |
0 |
0 |
0 |
|
Apps |
|
26th |
30th |
None |
? |
0 |
|
Toolkit, Builder, Apps, Developer Docs |
✓ |
25th |
29th |
0 |
0 |
0 (tentative) |
|
Platform |
😞 |
very late Saturday |
Thursday |
(paid) |
(paid) |
(paid) |
|
Toolkit, Developer Docs |
✓ |
25th |
29th |
102€ |
? |
? |
|
Builder |
✓ |
27th |
27th |
0 |
0 |
0 |
Remote participants
Name |
Comments |
Current sponsors
Collabora, providing the venue
Venue
The venue for the event is the Collabora office, Cambridge, England: http://www.openstreetmap.org/way/45675965
How to get there
Trains: http://www.nationalrail.co.uk/
tickets to Cambridge from Stansted Airport are ~£12.30 for a single (on the day of travel)
Car: some parking may be available; contact PhilipWithnall
From Europe
- Fly to STN with Ryanair/EasyJet, then take the train to Cambridge
- Take the Eurostar to London, then take a train to Cambridge
From faraway places
- Fly to LHR or LGW, then take the tube across London, then train (or bus) to Cambridge
- Fly to LHR or LGW, then take the bus to Cambridge
How to leave
FOSDEM will be taking place on 2014-02-01 and 2014-02-02, it is rather easy to get to Brussels by train or car.
Accommodation and food
There are two suitable Travelodges: central, and on Newmarket Road:
http://www.travelodge.co.uk/hotels/255/Cambridge-Central-hotel (~£50pppn for a double room, not easily shareable)
http://www.travelodge.co.uk/hotels/577/Cambridge-Newmarket-Road-hotel (~£50pppn for a double room, not easily shareable)
There’s also a hostel:
http://www.yha.org.uk/hostel/cambridge (~£14pppn for a dorm bed, ~£25pppn for a twin room; cheaper for larger private rooms)
A recommended B&B place:
Some floor space may be available, please list yourself as an interested party in the Attendees list.
Nearby Hacker-Friendly Cafés and Pubs
For late night hacking and socialising:
- The Flying Pig
- The Haymakers
- CB2
- Backstreet Bistro
- Cambridge Blue
For fry-ups:
Tudor Rose Cafe (highest rated)
Tatties (centre of town)
Auntie’s Tea Shop (centre of town)
CB2 (east of town)
For lunch:
Le Gros Franck, Hills Road (2 minutes from the office)
The Great Northern (pub), Station Road (2 minutes from the office)
Cambridge Blue Sandwiches, Hills Road (10 minutes from the office)
Tesco Express (supermarket), Hills Road
Tesco (bigger) (supermarket), Junction Retail Park, Hills Road
Food Park, Station Road (2 minutes from the office), Friday only, 12:00–14:00
For dinner:
The Golden Curry (Indian), Mill Road (15 minutes from the office)
Yim Wah Express (Chinese), Regent Street (15 minutes from the office)
Little Seoul (Korean), Regent Street (20 minutes from the office)
Reports
Here we will link all the blog posts published during or after the hackfest, including information about the work done. If tweeting about the hackfest, please use the hashtag #dxhackfest2015.
DX hackfest 2015: day 1, DX hackfest 2015: day 5 by Philip Withnall
Cambridge GNOME DX Hackfest / Day 1 by Emmanuele Bassi
Cambridge DX Hackfest by Christian Hergert
How Do I…, G_DECLARE_{FINAL,DERIVABLE}_TYPE by Ryan Lortie
DX Hackfest in Cambridge by Cosimo Cecchi
DevX Hackfest 2015 by Alberto Ruiz
Docs / Developer Experience Hackfest 2015: Tuesday by Bastian Hougaard
Back from DevX hackfest by Alex Larsson