Am 17.09.2018 um 15:20 schrieb C R:
Hey folks. I'm going to do a writeup of the hackfest to accompany and help finish the video content. If each of the hackfest attendees could answer these questions for me, I'll combine all of it into the hackfest summary.
- What did you work on during the Kiel hackfest?
- I tried to make sure everyone had what they needed to be able to work on Inkscape without needing to worry about the rest - this included things like shopping for food, making arrangements with the Kitz, plucking apples, baking pretzels, dealing out keys and access chips, translating menus (food), buying tickets, watching weather forecasts and answering surprising text messages. I also took care of a couple of external visitors to the hackfest. On Wednesday, I herded the Inkscapers through Kiel, to the computer museum and (some) back.
I spent most of my time finding, testing, understanding new features and then documenting them in the release notes for 1.0. Some time on the first and second day was spent on fixing my auto-compilation script for using it with git submodules. During testing, I also found a couple of bugs and reported them.
Due to Kieler Open Source und Linux Tage approaching, I also spent a large fraction of my time at the hackfest on working for that.
Then I wrote some daily summaries up in the forums, so there was a way that people who couldn't attend were able to get a small impression of what was happening.
On Tuesday, I intended to just watch how Martin was doing short usability tests with some unbiased Kitz employees - but then let myself be talked into doing some of them myself.
And - again, thanks to Martin - I've asked for help with setting up an online translation service for Inkscape, and helped test Inkscape's rocket.chat instance. Both of these seem to be developing well.
- What do you consider the best benefit to being at the Kiel hackfest
this year?
- I enabled a very productive meeting with some really awesome and motivated devs.
- What were the most fun things or things you most enjoyed about the
hackfest?
- Leaning back from the table and seeing with how much dedication the guys around me were working on making Inkscape better.
Standing on the deck of the ferry with the wind in my face, glad that all Inkscapers had made it on board in time.
(and inviting one of those peaceful, legally protected wasps on a spoon, and carrying it over to a flower, where it hopped off, and never came back - this wouldn't have worked with all species of wasps, though)
- Did your hackfest activities extend beyond the hackfest?
- Yes, of course - I spent the night after the official end coordinating with Ryan Gorley (thanks!) on some small handouts and posters for a makeshift booth at Kieler Open Source und Linux Tage, and was there at the Inkscape table for some of the time the next days. I also presented Inkscape in a 2-minute-talk during Kielux' attending projects presentations twice. And then there was some cleanup to do for the room etc.
I'm far from finished with documenting LPEs (and they keep getting better). Also, I want to work on getting Weblate, the translation software (after Manuel and Chris will have installed it) into a production-ready state, with Patrick's help, and I've already read through a lot of its documentation and played with it locally on my computer. And then, there are some things that I usually do for Inkscape, but that I needed to put off until after the hackfest.
- Did the hackfest increase your motivation to work on the Inkscape
project?
- No - and that wouldn't be good anyway. Right now, I'm quite exhausted, and highly motivated to do some garden work ;-)
- Anything else you'd like to include. :)
Thanks for your comments. I'll begin posting video content this week, (3-4 videos in total), witht he goal of releasing the hackfest summary first, so the sooner everyone responds to this information, the sooner I can put it together with some accompanying photos into a complete summary.
- I've uploaded ours into the shared space, maybe some of them will be useful.
Thanks for you help, and it was super cool to be able to hang out with all of you. Last week.
- Thanks for the tea and the stickers, CR :) Btw. you left a tea stick here (maybe intentionally) - how is it used? Do you want it back? (also the children's scissors). And where did the Kitz stencil go? I thought it was supposed to be gifted to the Kitz...
Looking forward to the video!
Maren
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