Fwd: Community over Code Glasgow 2026 Hackathon page

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From: Paul King <[email protected]>
Date: Tue, Aug 4, 2026 at 11:25=E2=80=AFPM
Subject: Re: Community over Code Glasgow 2026 Hackathon page
To: <dev-FvxHgLy0BgRd/SJB6HiN2Ni2O/[email protected]>


I have a draft here:

https://github.com/apache/comdev-events-site/pull/34

Feedback welcome.

On Tue, Aug 4, 2026 at 4:51=E2=80=AFAM James Fredley <[email protected]=
rg> wrote:
>
> Hi Paul,
>
> I think it make sense to combine, so there is more cross pollination
> between the teams.
>
> On the Grails front, I think our main goal is to work on the Grails
> Forge and Grails Profiles intersection, either combination, deprecation
> of one, etc.
>
> Specifically, we would like to have a single Grails application
> generator, if possible, instead of two.  And define the CLI command
> structure for the future.
>
> There are several existing GitHub issues, these do not cover everything.
>
> https://github.com/apache/grails-core/issues/15301
> https://github.com/apache/grails-core/issues/14081
> https://github.com/apache/grails-core/issues/14944
>
> James
>
> ---------------
>
> Hi Groovy and Grails folks,
>
> Over the weekend, I was going to write a draft page(s?) for the
> hackathon for Community over Code Glasgow. What is the hackathon?
> There is dedicated space at the conference for folks to get together
> and have chats (unconference style) or work on mini projects. This
> lets us deep dive with other users of our projects and maybe even
> advance them along the way.
>
> Currently the hackathon main page is here:
>
> https://events.apache.org/events/2026/community-over-code/hackathon.html
>
> Once projects fill in their page, it is then linked from the main page
> instead of the current temporary links which mostly are now pointing
> to project home pages. Eventually, the page should resemble the one
> for Tomcat:
>
> https://events.apache.org/events/2026/community-over-code/tomcat.html
>
> Source here:
>
> https://github.com/apache/comdev-events-site/blob/main/source/events/2026=
/community-over-code/tomcat.md
>
> First question, do we want a combined Groovy/Grails page or two separate
> pages?
>
> Also, projects are putting together lists of potential topics to hack
> on during the event, e.g. Tomcat has created a list on their wiki
> here:
>
> https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/spaces/TOMCAT/pages/421958054/Hackath=
on+CoC+Glasgow+2026
>
> Other projects are updating their "good first issue" labels in their
> issue tracking systems and using those as potential topics.
>
> If we keep separate list(s), our Hackathon page(s) themselves won't
> need frequent updates, but I'll probably include a few indicative
> topics on that page to entice folks to dive in further.
>
> So, let me know any topics you think would be great to cover or if you
> have a suggestion on where to create a list of topics.
>
> Thanks, Paul.
>