The case for longer hackathons - devopsdays Philadelphia 2017

The case for longer hackathons

How hackathons should be built around helping the community- so longer hackathons judged based on the number of lives they positively impact and not just how cool they are

Speaker

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Sonia Sarda

Dual degree student at UPenn- Wharton and Engineering. Hackathon attendee.

It’s hard to believe but it is almost 10 years ago since #devopsdays happened for the first time in Gent. Back then there were almost 70 of us talking about topics that were of interest to both Operations and Development, we were exchanging our ideas and experiences `on how we were improving the quality of software delivery. Our ideas got started on the crossroads of Open Source, Agile and early Cloud Adoption.