CloudAppHack-WG

Cloud Application Hackathon Work Group

CloudAppHack-WG

Overview

The Cloud Application Hackathon working group actively supports community members who wants to organize and run a cloud application hackathon for their community. The working group (WG) will share it’s collective knowledge, exchange of best practices, documentation, and provide mentorship. This WG is a place for hackathon organisers to come and receive planning advice which is practical and helps the organiser achieve event success by leveraging the capabilities of the global OpenStack community.

Goals

• Grow a vibrant and inclusive community of cloud application developers who actively use OpenStack as their cloud application infrastructure platform
• Act as an additional point of contact for guidance in developing a successful, safe, inclusive and rewarding hackathon
• Assist in the organization of OpenStack App Hackathon events in your respective communities and to consolidate global activities
• Facilitate activities correspondent to the App Hackathon wherever we can without impeding the interested group’s schedules or progress
• Build personal relationships between AppDev and DevOps communities (tribes) for the purpose of better understanding how resources are exposed (via API/SDK) and how they are consumed
• Establish AppDev champions who regularly participate and are aware for the wide ranging cloud app techniques and events which produce cloud applications

Goals out of Scope

• Develop Applications, Tools and Services atop OpenStack

Community Contributions

• Encourage the development of a broad OpenStack community and ecosystem of partners in support of DevApp Hackathons
• Facilitate training activities in OpenStack
• Transmit the interested community objectives and ideas to the OpenStack foundation in an easy, fast and organized manner to speed-up the event’s organization
• Provide guidance on the community’s requirements and actively provide contacts who can solve problems stopping progress
• Expectations Management for communities looking forward to run a hackathon
• Provide an up-to-date list of DevApp Hackathon events to the user-committee and maintain an available list of past, present and future hackathons
• Maintain ongoing communication with the user-committee to provide a forum for wider discussion on how the Application Develop Community is growing
• Develop a task timeline for each hackathon and follow up with the interested community group
• Overview the compliance of minimum membership requirements
• Help finding additional stakeholders, sponsors and community collaborators to co-host the event
• Recruit community members who want to be part of an open team that meets and works towards

Organization

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B_6QD8ZT8P4gSHROWVp2YUl0YTQ/view?usp=sharing

Meetings

Every second Tuesday of every month through Google Hangouts

• July 12
• August 09
• September 13
• October 11
• November 08
• December 13

Current Hackathons

1. Guadalajara Hackathon: http://openstack.tumblr.com/
2. Prague Hackathon

Contact Information

Co-Presidents - Newton Release

Michael Jenkins

Skype: michael.jenkins886 md.jenkins@icloud.com LinkedIn: https://tw.linkedin.com/in/mjenkins3

Gonzalo De La Torre

US: (210) 837-0335 Skype: gonzalo-de-la-torre Google Hangouts: latioz@gmail.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gonzaloutsa