[PyCon-AU-announce] OpenStack hackfest!

[Robert Collins]

In the OpenStack miniconf -
http://2013.pycon-au.org/programme/miniconfs/openstack - we're having a
hackfest in the afternoon. Thats Friday from 1430.

We have several goals for the hackfest... One is to get any attendee that
doesn't already know how to, familiar with the development toolchain for
OpenStack. Secondly we want to close out a few bugs, and thirdly we want to
have a lot of fun :)

Everyone who has a mini-conf ticket is welcome to attend - and you can drop
in and out if there are DjanoCon sessions you want to see.

Overall structure
-----------------

We're going to give a kickoff presentation for the hackfest at 1430, and
then it will be freeform hacking with assistance for the afternoon.

We're thinking that pair programming between attendees is a great way to
help knowledge sharing, and Michael Still has graciously agreed to find
some excellent low hanging bugs that will serve as a graceful introduction
to OpenStack. Equally though, if you have a personal patch or feature
you're interested in, or have even been hacking on for a while, we'll be
delighted to collaborate with you on moving that forward!

Tools needed
------------

You need a laptop, or a buddy with a laptop (buddies can be found at the
hackfest :)).

You'll need a working development environment. If you have hacked on
OpenStack before, bring that. If not, you can download a VM image that
contains a working devstack here:
http://h399f74f275a4b81788692750ed48a49c.cdn.hpcloudsvc.com/devstack.qcow2
And a virsh XML definition to run it:

http://h399f74f275a4b81788692750ed48a49c.cdn.hpcloudsvc.com/devstack.xml

(Note - the image is 1GB in size, I suggest downloading it before the
conference to avoid straining the WiFi).

I have a copy of the image on a USB key for anyone that gets this email too
late.

Some basic Python knowledge is needed :)

Cheers,
Rob

--
Robert Collins <rbtcollins at hp.com>
Distinguished Technologist
HP Cloud Services
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