[Inpycon] [PyCon 2013] Programming Challenges, Hackathons & Sprints, in Python at PyCon

[Noufal Ibrahim]

Kiran Gangadharan <kiran.daredevil at gmail.com> writes:

> Hi,
>
> IMO, we already have lots of these algorithmic challenges around. What
> would be more worthwhile is to take some open source project and guide
> people to contribute to it. We could take some good project and
> organise a code sprint/hackathon around it. This way we can break
> barriers involved in contributing to open source and make people
> happy, knowing that they too can make a difference to the open source
> world. What do you guys think ?

Nice but it requires more time than we have at the conference. This is
something better suited for a user group "month" especially when people
need hand holding.


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