Hackathon XXVI: Love for Docs
- Sarina Canelake (Do Not Use) (Deactivated)
- Sarina Canelake
- Feanil Patel (Deactivated)
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Date
Tuesday Aug. 10th - Thursday Aug. 12th, 2021
Presentations to be recorded and shared by 4 PM on Thursday, Aug. 12th
Theme
Love for Docs
Our developer documentation can be confusing and misleading!
Our feature documentation is not comprehensive and much is out of date!
What are “docs”? Anything written intentionally to educate or inform others: readthedocs, wiki, ADRs, etc. (Do videos count? Yes!)
Find Your Team
Idea Jams
We’re hosting two Idea Jams to get people connected to one another and allow for real time ideation! Details:
Idea Jam 1: August 5 from 1600 - 1700 ET, hosted in gather.town
Idea Jam 2: August 9 from 0900 - 1000 ET, hosted in gather.town
Ideation & Project Docs
Here are some ideas and committed projects to get ideas flowing:
Slack
general hackathon chat: #docs-hackathon (in the Open edX Slack space); #openedx-external-docs-hackathon (in the edX-internal Slack space)
hackathon planning volunteers: #hackathon-planning (in the edX-internal Slack space)
make your own group channel too! Be mindful of what Slack space you create your channel in, if you want to involve the community.
Final Presentations
All presentations will need to be prerecorded and no longer than 2 minutes.
See Sharing your Hackathon Presentationarchived for more details on how to record and share your presentations.
Presentations must be linked from the Hackathon XXVI Submissionsarchived page by 4pm ET on Thursday August 12th.
Prizes
There will be fabulous prizes in the form of Spot Awards sent to each member of a winning team!
Our judges will pick one winning team per prize category there will not be separate judging for internal vs external teams (so team up with anyone!)
The prize will be:
Spot Awards for edX employees!
Open edX T-shirts sent directly to you for community members!
Prize Categories
Built to Last
We want to make docs sustainable. For example, A project that makes it easier to keep docs up to date by building tools, or processes. Anything that helps people keep the words matching our code and what we do here is a good candidate for this prize.
Most ambitious
Biggest improvement for our open source community
Judge’s Choice
Occasionally Asked Questions
Can contractors participate?
yes!
Can the Open edX community participate?
yes!
I want to help, or to be a judge, or I have a really cool idea for how to run this!
contact us in #hackathon-planning (internal edXers only)