HACKnight -> HACKnights

[loleg]

For the past month or two I've been trying to drum up some support for a mini-HACKnight in the local community, mostly through meetings with folks in Bern-based IT companies. Unfortunately my time resources are rather limited - and I haven't managed to find someone until today who would be interested to run the event. Which we have already announced and really deserves a place on the program!

Due to the logistics issue of having a HACKnight on site at PROGR, we would propose a week of virtual HACKnights that would run on our usual platform and community channels (something we've had plenty of practice with the past couple years..). The main gist is that we will have a series of calls on the week of November 23-30 to guide any interested participants through the challenges.

[loleg]

A person helping me to set up the event series is one of the team members at ProxeusApp, an open source workflow-designer platform I'm helping to maintain. He will be available to respond to questions, and together we had the idea of a "Workflow Node" type of challenge that would be especially suitable to this type of application.

I've therefore in addition to our usual template created a second type of challenge:

Not sure if this makes sense, and we'll have a traditional challenge too.

Please feel free to submit your own challenges, issues, ideas at https://hacknight.dinacon.ch/

[loleg]

I have set up an open source calendar-availability for anyone who wishes to join the event. Please mark your times here: https://crab.fit/dinacon-hacknights-719074

Any preference on the platform? How about a quick vote:

• :+1: if you would like to use our basic Mattermost + Jitsi set up from last year
• :grinning: if you'd like to use BigBlueButton with extra conferencing features
• :tada: to use Mozilla Hubs which we used for the awards in 2020
• :rocket: if you'd like to meet in WorkAdventure like at RC3 etc.
• :eyes: if you've got eyes on Decentraland or another next-gen metaverse

(Comment below on any details of your choice)

[loleg]

Thanks for the votes! I have set up a BBB room on our server. It is open so every participant can start the conference. We will do a quick test and make sure it's ready to roll. Anyone who logs into dribdat (via GitHub) will be sent a calendar invite with the details.

[loleg]

Proxeus Association (Berner open source initiative) widmet 500.- als last minute Sponsoring. Ich würde gerne diese Summe, oder zumindest ein paar hundert Franken, über die HACKnights an FOSS Projects verteilen wie in 2021.

[loleg]

@MarkusTiede you're invited to co-administer the OpenCollective and make sure that the fundraising process is done fairly. See https://github.com/DINAcon/awards/discussions/83

[loleg]

@AniiTheViking as you requested, I've generated a fresh image and blurb for the HACKnight on the schedule: https://pretalx.com/dinacon-2023/talk/DU3CKV/