====== FreeBSD Hackathon - 3-4 January, 2015 ======

There's a semi-informal-ish hackathon scheduled for the 3rd and 4th of January (Saturday/Sunday), 2015.

===== Where is it? =====

It's at the Norse Offices, 1825 South Grant St, San Mateo, CA. From 10:30am to whenever-we-decide-to-wrap-it-up each day.

===== What's going on? =====

A bunch of %%FreeBSD%% people have some hacking to do.

  * Tyan released it's POWER8 development/reference platform, and we have one. ([[http://openpowerfoundation.org/press-releases/tyan-launches-its-openpower-customer-reference-system/]]). Nathan and Justin plan on bringing %%FreeBSD%%-HEAD up on it.
  * %%DragonflyBSD%% runs on the Chromebook C720 and there's now patches against %%FreeBSD%%-HEAD to do the same. Adrian and maybe others will bring up %%FreeBSD%%-HEAD on the C720 (minus Haswell graphics for now :( ) and work out the kinks so it can be committed to %%FreeBSD%%.
  * Adrian may bring %%FreeBSD%%-HEAD up on the QCA955x %%SoC%% so %%FreeBSD%% can run on the newer generation of Atheros based wifi access points.
  * Sean Bruno will bring some MIPS hardware along and hack on the %%FreeBSD%%/MIPS wifi access point project stuff.

There may be some impromptu Raspberry Pi platform hacking too.

===== Who's invited? =====

Anyone wishing to actively hack on a %%FreeBSD%% project.

===== Who's coming? =====

  * Adrian Chadd (Stuff..)
  * Sean Bruno (MIPS/ARM, wifi, package-building)
  * Nathan Whitehorn (POWER8)
  * Justin Hibbits (POWER8)
  * Chris B (Raspberry Pi %%FreeBSD%%)
  * Craig Rodrigues (Jenkins, automated testing)
  * jmg@ (tentative)
  * hiren@ (tentative)
  * David Discher (%%FreeBSD%% on Acer Chromebook C720)

Please let adrian@ know if you're coming and not on this list.

===== What's supplied? =====

Drinks and chips. We'll do a sandwich order for lunch.

===== How do I register? =====

Email adrian@freebsd.org and ask nicely. It's at his employers offices, so it's not open to the public and you have to ask first before you can participate.