Home Assistant Community Hackathon: The Hague
On Thursday 19 November, the whole Home Assistant team from the Open Home Foundation is in The Hague for its team meetup, and we're opening our hackathon day to contributors. Spend a day working on Home Assistant itself, side by side with the people who build it every day.
Is this for me?
This is a working day for people who contribute to Home Assistant: code, documentation, design or translations. You've opened a pull request before, or you're ready to open your first one.
It's not a user meetup or a help desk, so it's not the place to show off your setup or get help with your own smart home. For that, keep an eye on luma.com/homeassistant for community meetups near you.
What we'll work on (probably)
Fix-a-thon: small fixes all day long, from the Month of "What the Heck?!" reports to security work. Drop in for an hour or stay the whole day.
Device types: help kickstart one of the biggest changes to Home Assistant in years: teaching it what a device actually is.
Review and process automation: make the road from pull request to merge faster.
Open innovation: got an idea? Pitch it in the morning and find people to build it with.
The tracks run at the same time in different rooms, so there's always a place for you, whatever you like to work on. You don't have to pick one for the whole day: hop between tracks whenever you feel like it, or join one for an hour and move on to the next.
No competition and no prizes, just building together. Whatever gets merged ships in the beta the week after.
Schedule (roughly)
10:00 Doors open, coffee
10:30 Kickoff and pitches
13:00 Lunch
17:00 Demos
18:00 Drinks & dinner at the venue
Before you come
Bring your laptop with a working development environment, set up and tested before the day. We won't have time to set them up on site.
Spots are limited and we review every sign-up, so tell us a bit about yourself when you register.
Lunch, drinks and dinner are on us.