Archive for the ‘QA Hackathon’ Category

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 [...]

QA Hackathon

Introduction The QA Hackathon is a free of charge coding workshop for people involved in Quality Assurance, testing, packaging, CPAN, and other projects related to quality assurance. The workshop is not necessarily exclusive to Perl projects, however, many of the attendees will be planning to work on projects that have a direct benefit to the [...]

Perl QA: Some final thoughts

It has been a week since the PERL QA finished and while I was there I wrote about the events of each day. I didn’t, however, do the final day as there were a number of events happening; people were leaving, people debated on what was achieved, people spoke about other events and future years, [...]

Extended Families

QA Hackathon, Day Two The second day of the Hackathon proved to be a thoughtful exercise for me. The conversations and interviews I was conducting, or engaged in, tended to evolve into discussions on the nature of community with a particular focus on the larger Perl world. Before I continue to discuss these there are [...]

A Meeting of Many Camels

QA2011 Hackathon Day One Today marked the first day[1] of the Quality Assurance Hackathon 2011, an event not restricted to but mostly featuring work done in the Perl community. This event has been sponsored by Booking.com, Vienna and French Perl Mongers, YEF and the EPO and is being hosted by Booking.com at their office in [...]

EPO and the QA Hackathon

For those of you in the know, which would be anyone who is in the perl-qa channel on irc.perl.org or have looked at the wiki (http://2011.qa-hackathon.org/qa2011/wiki) on the QA Hackathon website (http://2011.qa-hackathon.org), or maybe heard on Twitter/Facebook/-insert social media type- the QA organisers, and especially the Herculean efforts of Book and Erica have now secured [...]

Announcing the Perl QA Hackathon 2011

QA 2011 Homepage (http://2011.qa-hackathon.org/qa2011/) Call to attention (http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.qa/2011/01/msg12675.html) QA News (http://2011.qa-hackathon.org/qa2011/news) Mailing List (http://lists.perl.org/list/perl-qa.html) The fourth annual Perl Quality Assurance Hackathon will be held in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, between Saturday 16th April and Monday 18th April 2011 and proudly hosted by Booking.com. As with previous years the attendance is gratis and the organisers hope to [...]