I seem to have overextended myself with pre-conference activities that involved baking cookies, practicing karaoke, and preparing my Friday morning keynote talk. As a result, I am delaying the post with my final fun fact about tuits until this weekend.
But I can’t delay posting the results of my 2023 Evergreen Conference Tuit Challenge since today is hackfest day! Many thanks to the 17 people who signed up for my Tuit Challenge and committed to working on a hackfest project. Those who have been following along know that 17 commitments also results in Rogan picking the song I sing Thursday night for karaoke. Being a nice guy, Rogan ultimately allowed me to pick my own song, but, in the spirit of the challenge, I decided to go with his first choice if we hit the threshold of 16 commitments. I will be singing Don McLean’s American Pie – all 8 1/2 minutes of it. I have also consented to the event being recorded and posted.
Kudos go to Evergreen contributor Jason Boyer who accepted the challenge to work on a new OpenSRF release. Due to his willingness to step up to this challenge, he is receiving a couple of extra Tuit Cookies in his bag this morning.
Below is the list of projects community members said they will be working on during the hackfest:
- Teaching others how to do git CLI-based docs commits, using my incredibly-hacky-but-functional method. Learning from others how to work more competently with github.
- Seeing what everyone else is doing and pitching in where I can.
- Enhanced concerto set, and whatever else anyone wants me to help with. Setup test machines maybe?
- I plan to work on Perl-layer bugs.
- Cleaning up the Agenda/Minutes page on the DIG wiki. Also finishing up the DIG promo lightning talk
- Documenting the setup process for exposing strings for translations.
- OpenSRF Release
- Lp 1904737 to expand the copy statuses on the pull list
- Finally updating the Cataloging Interest Group wiki (and assisting other Interest Group leaders in doing the same)
- Bug 1983156 if not already fixed 🙂 ; Contribute to the NewDevs wiki pages
- Branch cleanup/rebasing for 3.11 features
- a local page to test holds and circs and say how they will resolve
- Docs Interest Group – Prioritized Updates (set out in spreadsheet)
- I honestly haven’t thought that far ahead. I’m sure it’ll be code related tho… Accessibility? We’ll see.
- Nightwatch testing for UI changes.
- Documentation (lib settings, bugs, etc.).
- Display upcoming closed dates on the OPAC’s library information page.
All of this work may not get done; priorities may shift and other projects may get tackled. But we know some kind of forward progress will be made on the project as a result of the hackfest.
A fuller thank you to all contributors who accepted the Tuit Challenge is forthcoming in the next blog post, but I wanted to post one last dashboard before the hackfest starts today.
Tuit Dashboard 4/26/23
- Days until hackfest: 0
- # of hackfest commitments: 17
- Organizations with employees that accepted the Tuit Challenge:
- Equinox Open Library Initiative (7)
- GPLS/PINES (3)
- MOBIUS (3)
- CW MARS (1)
- Evergreen Indiana / ECDI (1)
- King County Library System (1)
- NOBLE (1)
- # of tuit cookie batches kmlussier made: 3 (2 for Tuit Challenge contributors; another for local planning committee members and a couple of other special folks)
- Selected karaoke song: American Pie, Don McLean
- On a scale of 1-10, level of kmlussier’s anxiety at the idea of singing karaoke: 7
Best wishes for a productive hackfest day!