Hackathons

In succeeding years, the OpenBSD development process has benefited greatly from holding more of these events. In our form, hackathons do not have talks, nor a specific schedule. People will arrive at a hackathon to work for a straight stretch of time on the projects they wish to, in the same room as the people who they need to talk to about their ideas. Hackathons are about writing code. At hackathons there is an attempt to get new changes into the source tree quickly. Since people from many different timezones are in the same room, development is almost around the clock. Developers sometimes joke about returning home without jet-lag.

Hackathons attendees come by invitation only. Some new people in the community who show promise are sometimes invited to see if they have what it takes. However, hackathons are not developer training events.

The event space and accommodation is typically funded by donations to the OpenBSD Project, or by the OpenBSD Foundation, however most developers pay for their own travel. The facilities are always chosen to be highly economical; generally near Universities or in cheaper locales. If anyone wants to help us FUND ONE OF THESE EVENTS OR A DEVELOPER'S TRAVEL, please contact Theo de Raadt (who generally has the most knowledge about upcoming options). General financing is more interesting, but we will entertain offers for free locations as well.

Here are some details about past and future events, also showing a part of the artwork from the event T-shirt (if there was one made). The shirts are only given to people who attend the event, and are worn with pride. Every shirt contains at least one developer in-joke, so don't worry if you can't understand the shirt. Just enjoy them.

m2k14: mini hackathon Apr 17 - 22, 2014 Marrakech, Morocco 12 developers Funded by The OpenBSD Foundation and with the support of Université Cadi Ayyad.	n2k14: mini hackathon Jan 18 - 25, 2014 Dunedin, New Zealand 15 developers Funded by ForeTell Technologies and with the support of University of Otago.	b2k13: mini hackathon Oct 17 - 21, 2013 Berlin, Germany 21 developers Funded by The OpenBSD Foundation and with the support of IN-Berlin.
t2k13: general hackathon May 29 - Jun 5, 2013 Toronto, Canada 43 developers Funded by The OpenBSD Foundation and with the support of University of Toronto.	n2k13: network hackathon Jan 13 - 19, 2013 Dunedin, New Zealand 17 developers Funded by The OpenBSD Foundation and with the support of University of Otago.	c2k12: coimbra hackathon Nov 14 - 20, 2012 Coimbra, Portugal 10 developers Funded by The OpenBSD Foundation and with the support of University of Coimbra.
p2k12: ports hackathon Oct 8 - 13, 2012 Budapest, Hungary, 9 developers Funded by donations to The OpenBSD Project.	n2k12: network hackathon Sep 17 - 21, 2012 Starnberg, Germany, 23 developers Funded by GeNUA.	g2k12: general hackathon Jul 7 - 14, 2012 Budapest, Hungary 41 developers Funded by The OpenBSD Foundation.
r2k12: rthreads hackathon Apr 10 - 14, 2012 Paris, France 16 developers Funded by The OpenBSD Foundation and support of Institute Henri Poincaré and Paris-Sud University.	p2k11: Ports hackathon Nov 12 - 18, 2011 Budapest, Hungary 15 developers Funded by donations to the OpenBSD Project.	a2k11: ARM hackathon Nov 5 - 12, 2011 Coimbra, Portugal 8 developers Funded by The OpenBSD Foundation and with the support of University of Coimbra.
s2k11: General hackathon Sep 16 - 23, 2011 Ljubljana, Slovenia 25 developers Funded by The OpenBSD Foundation and with the support of Mitja Muženič.	c2k11: General hackathon Jul 2 - 9, 2011 Edmonton, Alberta, Canada 36 developers Funded by The OpenBSD Foundation.	k2k11: Kernel hackathon Apr 1 - 7, 2011 Hafnarfjordur, Iceland 15 developers Funded by The OpenBSD Foundation.
p2k10: Ports hackathon Oct 23 - 29, 2010 Budapest, Hungary 19 developers Funded by donations to the OpenBSD Project.	j2k10: mini-hackathon in Japan Sep 19 - 25, 2010 Akiyamago, Sakae Mura, Nagano, Japan 19 developers	c2k10: General hackathon Jun 25 - Jul 3, 2010 Edmonton, Alberta 46 developers Funded by The OpenBSD Foundation.
n2k10: Network hackathon Jan 9 - 15, 2010 Melbourne, Australia 17 developers Funded by The OpenBSD Foundation and support of Victorian Partnership for Advanced Computing	h2k9: Hardware hackathon Nov 21 - 27, 2009 Coimbra, Portugal 15 developers Funded by donations to the OpenBSD Project and with the support of University of Coimbra.	p2k9: Ports hackathon Oct 9 - 16, 2009 Budapest, Hungary 14 developers Funded by donations to the OpenBSD Project.
f2k9: Filesystem/uvm hackathon Aug 7 - 14, 2009 Stockholm, Sweden 14 developers Funded by .se Foundation.	c2k9: General hackathon May 30 - Jun 7, 2009 Edmonton, Alberta 46 developers Funded by donations to the OpenBSD Project.	n2k9: Network hackathon Jan 26 - 30, 2009 Basel, Switzerland 19 developers
h2k8: Hardware hackathon Nov 20 - 27, 2008 Coimbra, Portugal 18 developers Funded by donations to the OpenBSD Project and with the support of University of Coimbra.	p2k8: Ports hackathon Oct 24 - 31, 2008 Budapest, Hungary 13 developers Funded by donations to the OpenBSD Project.	c2k8: General hackathon June 6-15, 2008 Edmonton, Alberta 55 developers Funded by The OpenBSD Foundation.
n2k8: Network hackathon May 5-10, 2008 Ito, Japan 18 developers Funded by donations to the OpenBSD Project and Mark Uemura.	h2k7: Hardware hackathon Nov 22 - 29, 2007 Coimbra, Portugal 11 developers Funded by donations to the OpenBSD Project and with the support of University of Coimbra.	p2k7: Focused on ports Oct 22 - 28, 2007 Budapest, Hungary 13 developers Funded by donations to the OpenBSD Project.
c2k7: General hackathon May 25 - Jun 2, 2007 Calgary, Alberta 50 developers Funded by donations to the OpenBSD Project.	f2k7: Focused on Filesystems Apr 10 - 15, 2007 Vienna, Austria 14 developers Funded by donations to the OpenBSD Project.	h2k6: Focused on drivers for hardware Nov 25 - 30, 2006 Coimbra, Portugal 14 developers Funded by donations to the OpenBSD Project and with the support of University of Coimbra.
p2k6: Focused on ports Oct 18 - 22, 2006 Budapest, Hungary 14 developers Funded by donations to the OpenBSD Project.	k2k6: Focused on IPSEC and IKE Aug 28 - Sep 1, 2006 Schloss Kransberg, Germany 14 developers	r2k6: Focused on network routing Jun 14 - 18, 2006 Hamburg, Germany 6 developers Support of Henning Brauer.
c2k6: General hackathon May 21 - 29, 2006 Calgary, Alberta 47 developers Funded by donations to the OpenBSD Project.	v2k5: Focused on ports Nov 1 - 4, 2005 San Servolo, Venice, Italy 12 developers Funded by donations to the OpenBSD Project.	c2k5: General hackathon May 21 - 28, 2005 Calgary, Alberta 60 developers Funded by donations to the OpenBSD Project.
c2k4: General hackathon Jun 19 - 26, 2004 Calgary, Alberta 46 developers Funded by donations to the OpenBSD Project.	pf2k4: Focused on pf development Apr 24 - 28, 2004 Sechelt, BC 12 developers Support of Ryan McBride.	c2k3: General hackathon May 8 - 20, 2003 Calgary, Alberta 51 developers Funded by NLnet (after DARPA pulled out their support).
c2k2: General hackathon Jun 4 - 12, 2002 Calgary, Alberta 42 developers Funded by DARPA.	[No shirt was made for this event] c2k1-2: Focused on sparc64 Aug 17 - 20, 2001 Washington, DC Funded by DARPA with support of USENIX.	[No shirt was made for this event] c2k1: Birth of PF Jun 21 - 26, 2001 Cambridge, Massachusetts 25 developers Funded by DARPA with the support of MIT.
[No shirt was made for this event] c2k: General hackathon Jun 15 - 18, 2000 Calgary, Alberta 18 developers Funded by donations to the OpenBSD Project.	[No shirt was made for this event] c99: Focused on IPSEC Jun 4 - 6, 1999 Calgary, Alberta 10 developers Funded by Theo de Raadt.