Archive for the ‘Hackathon’ Category

QA Hackathon 2013

Next year’s Quality Assurance Hackathon was originally intended to be held in the Roman town of Londinium on the banks of the River Thames in the south-eastern nub of the Kingdom of England. However, due to complications arising from the collision between a condom and a time machine(1) the event will now be held elsewhere [...]

NWE.pm Virtual HackDay #3

Next saturday, 22nd September 2012, the North West England Perl Mongers will be holding their third Hack Day of 2012.

A Qualitative Regard

The Event is on This weekend sees the QA Hackathon take place in Paris. The delegates will gather, converse, hack and generally further the field of Quality Assurance in Perl and its many libraries. Already I have seen the chatter and plans as they begin to assemble and combine their objectives and itineraries. Since I [...]

Hack Day #1

A Hack Attack Next saturday, 24th March 2012, the North West England Perl Mongers will be holding their first Hack Day of 2012. For the previous three years we have held hackdays as an annual event to create a local community day for fun and hacking on open source and community projects. it was decided [...]

QA Hackathon 2012: Donate-a-thon

Call for Donations As many of you are aware this year’s QA Hackathon will be held from 30th March to 1st April in the beautiful city of Paris. Each year we attempt to cover all the expenses of the attendees for travel and accommodation and to contribute towards food costs while the event runs. The [...]

Hack-at-it

North West England Hackday 3 Saturday 3rd December was the North West England annual hackday held at the Shadowcat offices in Lancaster once again (for those of you who didn’t know – or just guess – we have been the proud hosts of all three hackdays thus far). This year the plan was to hack [...]

NWE Hakathon Moves Date

Hey all. For those of you planning to attend the NWE yearly Hackathon this weekend please note that we have had to have an emergency move of date to the 3rd December. Both Ian and I are truly sorry for doing this at the very last minute but it was completely unavoidable. Hopefully this means [...]

Vive Les Mongueurs de Perl

Perl QA Hackathon 2012 Once again I have to thank the laws determining large numbers and the interaction of societies[1] for Les Mongueurs de Perl those wonderful French Perl Mongers. Once again they have taken up a baton that was in the way of being passed and will be hosting the QA Hackathon for 2012.[2] [...]

Hackability 3

NWE.pm[1] Hackday Part Trois[2] Once again, and for the third year running as the subtitle crudely suggests, the North West England Perl Mongers will be having a hackday to complete work on open source projects. The hackday is traditionally held at the Shadowcat Systems offices in Lancaster, though physical attendance is not absolutely required as [...]

YAPC::NA Training and Events

Train to Gain With just three weeks to go until the start of YAPC::NA it is time to start considering attending the training sessions and events that will accompany this year’s conference. If you are new to Perl, but still familiar with basic Perl, and want to know all about CPAN the greatest resource in [...]