Learn and use meson

a project by JonathanKang

meson[0], a replacement to autotools, is very popular nowadays. It's a lot faster than autotools as far as what I hear and see. Besides lots of GNOME projects has been ported to meson. As one of the maintainers of GNOME Logs[1], I need learn meson and try to port Logs to meson for faster building.

Updated over 5 years ago. 4 hacker ♥️.

Create a tool to generate vCPU/vNUMA topology for virtual machines

a project by jfehlig

Most large workloads such as SAP HANA require special, highly optimized configuration to run in a virtual machine. Virtual resources such as memory and CPU must be carefully configured to ensure optimum performance of the virtual machine workload. Default VM configuration created by tools such as virt-install are not optimized and often result in poor performance of large workloads due to memory access latencies and incorrect/incomplete information available to the VM's task scheduler.

Updated over 5 years ago. 4 hacker ♥️.

Dropbox replacement written in Pony

a project by KGronlund

I want to experiment with three things:

Updated almost 3 years ago. 4 hacker ♥️.

Research telemetry for (open)SUSE products

an idea by dmacvicar

Most of design is done still with a embarrassing amount of data. Having released software for decades, we still don't know exactly what module is the most used, what workflows the customers are following, where do customers fail. It is all guesses and opinions.

Updated almost 3 years ago. 4 hacker ♥️. Has no hacker: grab it!

Wayland security review.

an idea by yfjiang

One of the significant advantages of Wayland is about security, to isolate input/output of every single windows, encourage non-root user running the core process, as well as discouraging root user running any graphical applications. The project wants to have a close look at Wayland trying to address the questions:

Updated over 5 years ago. 4 hacker ♥️. Has no hacker: grab it!

Pair Programming Test Drive/Probefahrt

a project by mamorales

Are you interested in pairing? Are you wondering whether it is something that would help you and your team members in your current project? Would you like to try it out before you fully commit to such an extreme idea? Then this is your lucky day Sir/Madam!

Updated over 5 years ago. 4 hacker ♥️.

Do some 3D printing

an invention by aschnell

Do some 3D printing incluing designing the object.

Updated over 5 years ago. 4 hacker ♥️.

Research/Development: `Doc as Code` Using Asciidoctor, Jekyll, gh-pages, TravisCI, Bootstrap v4 and any Additional Tech Discovered Along the Way

a project by JCayouette

Doc as Code with Asciidoctor, Jekyll, and TravisCI

Updated almost 3 years ago. 4 hacker ♥️.

Go async (and non-blocking) with HTTP requests

a project by j_renner

There is a couple of libraries available for asynchronous and non-blocking processing of HTTP requests (in Java) that can be used to avoid having threads waiting for responses in request intensive applications, for example:

Updated over 5 years ago. 4 hacker ♥️.

Practice Go

a project by vcuadradojuan

Use this hackweek to practice and learn more about Go.

Updated over 5 years ago. 4 hacker ♥️.