Hack week planning meeting | Thursday 2022 April 14 at 11 am ET

--- tags: Hack Week --- # Hack week planning meeting | Thursday 2022 April 14 at 11 am ET # Agenda 1. Introductions 2. Registration form update 3. Website stuff * Photos for organizing committee needed 4. Meeting format 5. Brainstorm meeting topics ## Action Items * [Erik] ping Ramiz about getting the registration form going * [Erik] get first iteration of website merged ## Minutes * **Need to work on wording to explain and advertise the meeting.** * clearly define the difference between Hack Week and a Hackathon * needs to be done on the web page and email * Hack School (?) ... immediately changes the meaning ... **The School of Hack** * [Erik] begain reorganizing website for the 2022 event (see PR https://github.com/PlasmaPy/hack.plasmapy.org/pull/64) * Morris will likely not be able to continure helping * Registration Form * will repurpose last year's registration form * keep the lighning talk part but give more of an explanation of what it is * say a talk is 5 mins, but we budget for longer in our scheduling * Meeting format? * keep the same format as last time * Morning: 8-10am PT * Break: 10-11 am PT * Late Morning: 11-1pm PT * This schedule prioritizes timezones of the meeting coordinators (i.e. North America and Europe) * Having a motivation talk in the morning of the first day? * show case some amazing project currently happening * capture the minds of the people * Brainstorm * thinking complexity of session escalates throuh the week * DAY 1-2 * Terminals (on Mac, Linux, Windows) * git * GitHub (mechanics of github, forking, cloning) * local (git) & remote (GitHub) integration * virtual environments (why do you want to create?) * conda * jupyter notebooks (local, binder, google colab) * DAY 3 -> * contributing to the hack pkg * focus on a formulary, but not limited to * should come to the session with specific hack topics * DAY 4 -> * do more complex topics...like hashing out langmuir, bdot functionality, or the like * **Labeling days as a certain skill level** * earlier days should prepair the noob for attending the later days * should be advertised on day 1, in emails, on the web page, etc.