Yes!!! On Wed, May 6, 2026, 01:02 <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Hi Spark community, > > We're organizing a hackathon at Community Over Code Glasgow 2026 (October > 11–14) and Spark 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 > >
