We thank everyone for participating in Plasma Hack Week held both June 28–July 2, 2021 and July 11–15, 2022!

Though these events have concluded, we are keeping the event webpage open as a community resource.

For additional information please check out the 2022 About page

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.

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.