Register here to join Spinnaker contributors on July 16-23 to learn and build. All contributions you make in the week, including project and plugin code, documentation, content, videos, issues and more, add up to points. All contributors will receive prizes based on their point totals, so contribute when you can. When you sign up, you'll be matched with a team. Teams can choose a project and compete in one of four challenge categories. Teams that demo a project will be eligible for prize packages awarded to challenge-winning teams and runners-up in each category.
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Learn more about event logistics, what we'll hack on, setting up your development environment, and more in the Spinnaker Gardening Days pages on Spinnaker.io. Got questions that aren't answered here? Post in #gardening-general on Spinnaker Slack.
- Stay tuned for upates to the schedule of events.
- Main Zoom link and password for the event will be released via email to ticket holders prior to our live events. Register for access.
- All other Zoom/Jit.si meeting links for the event will be available as channel topics in event Slack channels
Contribute when you can! When you register, you'll be matched with a team. You will receive your team match via Spinnaker Slack by July 15. All contributions you make in a team project count as individual contributions, and demoing a project enters your team to win a challenge prize package, too! Your individual contribution points will be tracked on the contribution tracking sheet. Read more in the Hackathon logistics page.
Here's the eligibility breakdown for our two buckets of prizes:
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Individual Prizes: When you register, all contributions you make during the Gardening Days (July 16-23) count towards your [contributor points total]((https://go.armory.io/contributors). Earn points = Earn prizes. Check out the full list of qualified contributions, including:
- GitHub activity and contributions
- Spinnaker tips or recent news items shared in OSS Slack
- Codelab and training video run-throughs
- Assisting in Spinnaker Slack answers
- Assisting in Spinnaker StackOverflow answers
- Documentation activities
- Filling out our deployment survey at go.armory.io/deployment-survey (you will also receive a charitable donation of your choice in your name)
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Team Prize Packages: Teams in each challenge category will be awarded divisible First and Runner Up team prize packages. Read more on the Prizes page.
Note that the contribution tracking sheet cannot track GitHub event contributions in real time because of the way the data is collected from GitHub APIs, and will reflect a lag of at least 24 hours. Other contributions are manually tracked via Slack and thus will also lag. Final point tallies will be announced after event conclusion in Slack and via the Community Blog.
This is quickstart documentation for the Spinnaker Gardening Days #communityHack, a series of open-source Spinnaker hackathons open to anyone in the community, including newcomers. The goal of this doc is help you get started participating.
Right now, humans are more isolated than ever; however, we're coming together virtually like never before. The culture of dispersed and asynchronous collaboration at the foundation of open source seems more relevant than ever as we must together rise to a totally overwhelming and frightening global challenge. Spinnaker Gardening Days aims to shine a light of fun and hope into our community. We envision a future of great software delivery bringing us closer to the experiences that matter.
Let's solve together; you'll have fun, we promise!
The second Spinnaker Gardening Days will take place online on July 16th - 23rd, 2020. Click here to register. Tickets are available for the hackathon and dedicated training workshops. The third Spinnaker Gardening Days will take place ahead of Spinnaker Summit, scheduled for the end of October.
Gardening Days organizers will help each participant join a team on which they can stay productive and engaged. The registration questions will help us to create balanced starter teams of 2-5. Then, we'll connect you with your teammates on Spinnaker Slack the week on the hackathon. There, you can share your project ideas. Our team of Spinnaker community experts can also help you choose the perfect project, and will be on call to advise you through the week. Consult and collaborate through blockers. Team membership is flexible, and participants are permitted to migrate teams, join multiple teams, or create their own teams. Attendees are encouraged to reach out to organizers (direct message @dnilasor) for assistance with team matching or if concerns or team-fit issues arise.
This is a collaborative hackathon, so there won't be one winning team. However, community awards and prizes will be given to all teams that present at the Demo. After the hackathon ends, a community voting period will happen in Spinnaker Slack to select the Community's Choice Project. The Community Choice Project will get recognized at Spinnaker Summit in October.
NO! A top goal of this event: build the community and give participants a chance to get to know each other. Your team isn't required to build something that’s fully working. If you get halfway through a project and it no longer makes sense, you will have likely learned a lot and made connections. Stay and hang out! While we're sure to come out with some useful features, fixes, or plugins, this is supposed to be fun. It does not need to be feature complete.
Yes, if it makes sense! Read the Plugin Users Guide to learn more about how to use and build Spinnaker plugins. Folks in the #sig-platforms channel and the @on-call-gardener can advise on which projects will work as plugins. More context is also available here on the Spinnaker Community Blog.