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Hello world! We are pleased to announce the return of the Plasma Hack Week, which will be held remotely from July 11 – July 15, 2022. For additional information please check out the 2022 About page, and stay tuned as more details are released.
What is a hack week and hacking?
The term hacking has a broad range of use in modern day slang. Hacking during the Plasma Hack Week event is seen as a collaborative coding session among novices, experts, and like-minded learners to work on projects and learn from each other. Hacking is a learn-by-doing activity, one of the best ways to further our knowledge.
A hack week is a combination of a hackathon (a marathon of hacking) and a summer school. While hackathons have traditionally prioritized collaborative code development activities, a hack week includes a teaching component. Hack weeks typically have both structured learning activities (such as tutorials) as well as unstructured project time. A hack week is a chance to:
- Learn how to contribute to an open source project;
- Learn new software development skills with peers;
- Network with fellow plasma students and researchers who are engaging in software development;
- Meet fellow students and scientists who are engaging in programming;
- Collaborate on adding a new feature to an existing software project;
- Add tests and/or documentation to an existing package; and/or
- Write use cases and user stories to support software projects.
Join our Discord group
If you would like to participate or help plan Plasma Hack Week, please join the Plasma Coders group on Discord.
Registration
For information about registering please check out our 2022 Hack Week registration page.
Resources
We have compiled resources that are likely to be useful for Hack Week participants. Topics include Python, git/GitHub, and research software engineering best practices.
Code of conduct
Plasma Hack Week has adopted the Contributor Covenant Code of Conduct.
License
This website is made available under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license. Portions of this website have been adapted from PlasmaPy's main website and the HackWeek Toolkit under the terms of the CC BY 4.0 license.