Hey Rich,
Grails is 100% interested in participating.
James Fredley
VP, PMC Chair, Apache Grails
> Hi Grails community,
>
> We're organizing a hackathon at Community Over Code Glasgow 2026
(October 11–14) and Grails has sessions on the schedule. We'd love for
your community to participate.
>
> The idea is simple: dedicated time and space at the conference for
contributors (new and existing) to work together on real tasks — fixing
bugs, writing docs, tackling issues that need focused attention, or
onboarding new contributors.
>
> To participate, we'd need a few things from your project:
> • A point of contact — someone we can coordinate with on logistics
and who'll be present at the event.
> • A list of tasks — bugs, docs, features, good-first-issues, or
whatever your project wants to focus on. This helps people show up ready
to contribute rather than spending the first hour figuring out what to
work on.
> • Promotion — a message to your dev@ and users@ lists letting
people know this is happening and encouraging them to attend.
>
> This is the first year we're bringing the hackathon back, so we're
treating it as a pilot — we want to gauge interest before committing to
scale. Even if only a few contributors from your project can
participate, that's a great start.
>
> If you're interested, please reply here or reach out to me directly.
Even a quick "yes, we're in" or "maybe, let's talk" is helpful as we
figure out how many projects to plan for.
>
> Also, please join us in the #hackathon channel on the ApacheCon Slack
— that's where we'll be coordinating as things come together:
http://s.apache.org/apachecon-slack
>
> Thanks,
> Rich, on behalf of the Community Over Code planners
—
Rich Bowen
[email protected]
