resource for organizing a hackathon

[agladstein]

I came across this. Might be useful if we are still interested in hosting some kind of hackathon.
https://hackathon-planning-kit.org/

In COVID-era a virtual hackathon is probably a great idea.
@popsim-consortium/stdpopsim-maintainers

[grahamgower]

I really like the idea of having a stdposim hackathon. What would a virtual hackathon look like though? Do we schedule something for a fixed time wrt UTC, and the participants shift their working hours to match this for the duration?

[agladstein]

Maybe we can talk about this next call (or the following one if there is already an agenda for the coming up one).

But, I think it could be a good way of getting new people involved. We could have teams doing different projects, probably in the categories of backend, docs, adding new species, and adding new models. And within each of those categories there could be multiple projects. I think ideally most of the new people would be working on adding new species or new models. It's the people who saw the paper, are interested in contributing, but haven't set aside time to do it or are intimidated.

I think it'd be a cool idea to use https://gather.town/ for a virtual space.

[petrelharp]

This could be a great way to get us unstuck, potentially. Let's talk about it tomorrow!