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

[sankarshan]

On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 3:55 PM, pranjal mittal
<mittal.pranjal at gmail.com> wrote:
> Individuals not only look for great prizes but an opportunity to see their
> standing and have fun programming. Additional prizes act as a further
> motivation.
> If you have a look at PyCon US. They too have side events like Codesprints,
> conducted before or after the actual conference duration that indirectly
> helps in bolstering the stand of PyCon as an international conference and
> helps get many sponsors.
> http://us.pycon.org/2014/

Looking at <https://us.pycon.org/2014/community/sprints/> "PyCon
Development Sprints are four days of intensive learning and
development on an open source project of your choice, in a team
environment. It's a time to come together with colleagues, old and
new, to share what you've learned and apply it to an open source
project."

This is by definition a bit different from online competitions which
was one of the thrusts of your proposal.

Organization and success of sprints depend on : [1] identifying
projects [2] identifying those who will wrangle the sprints [3]
interested participants and, [4] some idea of what could constitute a
definition of a successful sprint. That should not be too hard to come
by.


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sankarshan mukhopadhyay
<https://twitter.com/#!/sankarshan>