Plasma Hack Week 2022: Schedule
Dates: July 11th to July 15th
Times: 11:00 am to 4:00 pm EDT
Each day of this year's Plasma Hack Week is focused around hacking, so come prepared to code and have fun! While each day is centered around hacking, there will still be planned social time and lightning talks. All pre-planned events will not exceed 5 hours in any given day, and we highly encourage any breakout discussions and hack sessions that may be inspired from the day's activities.
This year's Hack Week will be held from July 11 to July 15. The primary goal of this year's event is to teach members of the Plasma community the skills needed to contribute to open-source software and develop code for the Plasma community as a whole. The week will start off with foundational topics and progress to more advanced topics as the week proceeds. The detailed schedule can be viewed below and the overview is as follows:
- Day 1 (foundational)
- The first day focuses on how to set up your system in preparation for developing open-source Python software.
- Day 2 (foundational)
- The second day is all about version control with
gitand GitHub. These are the two primary tools used to collaboratively develop open-source software. - Day 3 (intermediate)
- In the third day we start developing our own open-source package,
the
hackpackage. To start the package we'll develop a plasma formulary using theplasmapy.formulary(pkg | docs) as our guide. - Day 4 & 5 (intermediate/advanced)
- The last two days will focus on developing functionality participants are interested in, which can be suggested by any participant and/or select from pre-outlined project issues.
Since this year's event is focused on hacking and learning by doing, it is in its nature free-form. So, feel free to bring up any topic you are interested in; ask any question you might have; and/or launch any breakout discuss to explore your ideas.
The schedule
Lightning talks
A lightning talk is an informal 2-5 minute talk on any topic of interest to Hack Week participants. Example topics include a short demo of plasma software, a hack week project idea, an upcoming event, a suggestion for improving the culture of the plasma software community, something you learned during the Hack Week, an upcoming event, or an idea for plasma software that is yet to be developed. The time allowed for each lightning talk will depend on how many people sign up. There may be time during the Hack Week to request a lightning talk as well.