Hackathons#

Geomstats core developers organize several hackathons a year, with the following goals:

  • Train new users, e.g. pairing a new user with an experienced Geomstats developer.

  • On-board new contributors, e.g. on collaborative coding practices.

  • Foster new collaborations and strengthen existing ones

  • Bring the community of geometric statistics and learning together.

Interested? Feel free to:

  • Join the next hackathons, either remotely or in person (see section below)

  • Contact Geomstats core developers via Slack to ask about organizing a hackathon at your institution!

  • Organize a hackathon yourself!

Workflow#

Coding as a group in an open-source project is different from coding alone.

This is the typical collaborative workflow at a hackathon:

  1. Join Geomstats slack workspace: Join channel associated with your hackathon

  2. Assign yourself to a GitHub task on the GitHub project associated with your hackathon

  3. Code a few lines on a new GitHub branch

  4. Document your code with docstrings

  5. Test with unit-tests

  6. Lint to respect the coding style

  7. Submit a PR on GitHub

  8. Address code reviews

  9. Merge your PR

  10. Repeat :)

More details can be found in the contributing guidelines.

In a one-day hackathon:

  • we start with a stand-up meeting, where each participant states their goal for the day,

  • participants go through steps 1-10, on a (possibly small) code additions.

In a one-week hackathon:

  • we organize daily stand-up meetings,

  • we expect participants to go 2-3 times through steps 1-10.

Past and future hackathons#

2022:

  • February 2022: hybrid hackathon:

  • in-person at Inria Sophia-Antipolis, France,

  • remote with participants around the world.

  • April 2022: hybrid hackathon:

  • in-person at the Villa Cynthia, CNRS CAES Saint Raphael, France,

  • remote with participants around the world.

  • June 2022: in-person hakathon:

  • in-person at the University of Washington (UW), Seattle, US.

  • October 2022: hybrid hackathon:

  • in-person during the trimester Geometry and Statistics in Data Sciences, in Paris, France. (October 17-21)

  • remote with participants around the world.

  • hackathon’s webpage.

2021:

  • March - April 2021: hybrid hackathon:

  • in-person at Inria Sophia-Antipolis, France,

  • remote with participants around the world.

  • July 2021: hybrid hackathon:

  • in-person at the Geometric Science of Information (GSI) conference, Paris, France

  • remote with participants around the world.

  • hackathon’s webpage.

  • December 2021: in-person hackathon:

2020:

  • January 2020: in-person hackathon:

  • in person at Inria Sophia-Antipolis, France

  • April 2020: remote hackathon:

  • remote via Zoom and Slack with participants around the world.