Lots of beer, pizza, and coding

Lots of beer, pizza, and coding. I'd say that our second Vancouver Eclipse hackathon was a huge success. We had committers from several Eclipse and Eclipse based projects: Mylyn, p2, JDT, Orion, and Scripted were all represented. We had 30 hackers spread across all of these projects. Currently, we have 7 patches that have been accepted into codebases, and three more that are working their way through the submission process.

The hackathon was a great and social way to be introduced into the open-source world and perhaps some of these new Eclipse contributors can become Eclipse committers. If you are interested in holding an Eclipse hackathon (or any hackathon) in your area, feel free to contact me. I now know what works and what doesn't.

Just getting started

All working hard

Nieraj and Leo take a moment to relax

Ian Skerret, flew all the way from Ottawa for us

A big thank you to all the project leads who helped (and are still helping) some newcomers fixing their first bug. And an even bigger thank you to everyone who worked hard and stayed up late, just to do some coding. It was a lot of fun.

For another look at the hackathon and more photos, see the Tasktop blog.