Re: Docu-Code-athon

[Michael Davidsaver via Core-talk <core-talk at aps.anl.gov>]

On 5/2/23 08:12, Timo Korhonen via Core-talk wrote:
> Hello,
>
> We have an OK for Docu/Code-athon at ESS on the week 35 (28.August to 1. September) this year.
>
> Before announcing it on tech-talk and the website(s), I wanted to check about codeathon.
>
> There was some discussion if we can have enough topics for an IOC Core codeathon, as the previous one at Diamond is still quite recent.
>
> Opinions?
My answer is both "never" and "always".  There is always work to be done.
At the same time, finding tasks suitable for a newcomer to do in a week is
always a challenge.

Maybe an approach would be to "limit" attendance to the codeathon side (tract?)
to those who have projects in mind ahead of time?

I say "limit" since people who have shown up to past codeathons without projects
often got pointed to documentation tasks.  So more about setting expectations.


> We have been asked to (try to) stay under/around 20 participants; I do not think this will be a big issue.
This seems like a good idea.  While I think the recent DLS codeathon turned
out well, I was initially intimidated by the size of the participant list.