[afnog] Hackathon

[Noah]

On 13 Jun 2016 11:01, "Loganaden Velvindron" <loganaden at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>

Hi Logan

> After AIS in Botswana, I was wondering if there might be some interest
> to organize a Hackathon for the next meeting in Mauritius.
>
> In order for it to work, we would need
>
> 1) A room with Internet and stable electricity (3 days, non-stop, 10
> hours of intense coding)
> 2) Low noise level, and restricted room access so that participants can
focus.
> 3) People familiar with coding in languages such as Python/Perl and C,
> and who are willing to spare some time ahead of the hackathon to brush
> up their skills, so that they can hit the hackathon with some kind of
> code. In my experience organizing various hackathons in Mauritius,
> it's better to have an idea ahead of time, and already having some
> code written before coming so that you can quickly iron out the bugs,
> and improve code steadily.
>
> TOPIC: DNS, DNSSEC, BGP, SMTPS, TLS, <insert your idea here>
>

Sounds like a plan. Very much interested. We can also add NETOPS for
Network Engineers as i have seen Cisco and Juniper release some modules for
automation in the recent past.

So a hackerthon in that too would be interesting.

> We would need at least 3 hackers as a start.
>
>
Noah
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