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# Suggested Updates to Hack Week Landing Page

title: Plasma Hack Week: June 28 – July 2, 2021
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Hello world!  We are pleased to announce that the inaugural **Plasma
Hack Week** will be held remotely from June 28 – July 2, 2021.  In the
week before the event, we will hold prequel tutorials on topics such
as Python, git & GitHub, contributing to an open source project, and
writing clean scientific software.


## What is a hacking and what is hack week?

The term hacking has evolved from a secretive activity done by programming prodigy to just a short-hand for coding or programming. More and more programmers are spending time coding together, either collaboratively on the same project or in parallel on separate projects. Occassionally, a group will conviene an extended social coding and development session called a hackathon.

A [hack week](https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1717196115) is a combination
of a hackathon and a summer school.  While hackathons have traditionally
prioritized collaborative code development activities, a hack week
includes a pedagogical 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](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Use_case) and
  [user stories](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_story) 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](https://discord.gg/HdsZkp9M35) group on Discord.

## Registration

Please check soon for registration information. 

## Code of conduct

Plasma Hack Week has adopted the [Contributor Covenant Code of
Conduct](https://www.contributor-covenant.org/version/2/0/code_of_conduct/).

## License

This website is made available under the [Creative Commons Attribution 4.0
International](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) (CC BY 4.0)
license.  Portions of this website have been adapted from
[PlasmaPy's main website](https://www.plasmapy.org/) and the 
[HackWeek Toolkit](https://uwescience.github.io/HackWeek-Toolkit/#)
under the terms of the CC BY 4.0 license.