Hackathon at Community over Code Glasgow 2026
Hackathon
We’re bringing back the hackathon! Community over Code Glasgow will include dedicated time and space for contributors — new and experienced — to sit together and work on real tasks: fixing bugs, writing docs, tackling issues that need focused attention, and onboarding new contributors.
How it works
Each participating project provides:
- A point of contact — someone present at the event to coordinate
- A task list — bugs, docs, features, good-first-issues, or whatever the project wants to focus on
- Promotion — letting their community know this is happening
During the event, a dedicated room will be available for contributors to gather, collaborate, and get things done.
Participating Projects
The following Apache projects have confirmed participation. Follow the thread links to see the conversation and find out how to get involved with each project’s hackathon effort.
| Task List | Discussion |
|---|---|
| Airflow | dev@ thread |
| Arrow | dev@ thread |
| Camel | dev@ thread |
| CloudStack | dev@ thread |
| Fineract | dev@ thread |
| Flink | dev@ thread |
| Fluss | dev@ thread |
| Gluten | GitHub issues |
| Grails (joint page with Groovy) | dev@ thread |
| Groovy (joint page with Grails) | dev@ thread |
| Impala | dev@ thread |
| IoTDB (tentative) | dev@ thread |
| Kafka | dev@ thread |
| Kudu | dev@ thread |
| Mahout | dev@ thread |
| NuttX | dev@ thread |
| Ozone (tentative) | dev@ thread |
| Pekko | dev@ thread |
| SIS | dev@ thread |
| Solr | dev@ thread |
| Sourcelume | [dev@ thread] |
| Spark | dev@ thread |
| StreamPipes | dev@ thread |
| Superset | dev@ thread |
| Tomcat | dev@ thread |
| Tooling | |
| Wayang | dev@ thread |
Eventually each project will have a dedicated page with hackathon task ideas and contributor guidance.
Hackathon Room Schedule
The hackathon room is available throughout the conference (Sunday through Wednesday) in the Wee Dram Room. Up to 5 projects can use the room during each half-day slot.
Please claim only one slot initially, so every project gets a chance. Once all projects have signed up, unclaimed slots will open for seconds.
To sign up, open a PR against the comdev-events-site repository adding your project name to an open slot in the table below. Link to your project hackathon page if you have one.
Monday, 12 October
| Slot | Project 1 | Project 2 | Project 3 | Project 4 | Project 5 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Early (11:20–15:00) | Solr | Sourcelume | |||
| Security (15:10–15:50) | Security | Security | Security | Security | Security |
| Late (16:00–18:40) | Solr |
Tuesday, 13 October
| Slot | Project 1 | Project 2 | Project 3 | Project 4 | Project 5 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Early (11:20–15:00) | Arrow | Tooling | |||
| Late (15:00–18:40) | Mahout |
Wednesday, 14 October
| Slot | Project 1 | Project 2 | Project 3 | Project 4 | Project 5 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Early (11:20–14:10) | Wayang | ||||
| Security (14:20–15:00) | Security | Security | Security | Security | Security |
| Late (15:10–18:40) |
Want your project to participate?
If your project has content at Community over Code Glasgow and you’d like to take part in the hackathon, reach out:
- Email planners@apachecon.com
- Join #hackathon on apachecon.slack.com
We need a point of contact, a list of tasks for contributors to work on, and a message to your dev@ and users@ lists letting people know it’s happening.
Coordination
General hackathon coordination happens on the planners@apachecon.com mailing list and in the #hackathon channel on apachecon.slack.com.
- Looking for other ways to help? See more volunteer opportunities.
- Help spread the word: Social Media Promotion page.
- See the Hackathon Outreach Calendar for publicity tasks that need an owner.
- Learn more about what’s involved in hackathon coordination.
- Projects can update this page by submitting a PR to the comdev-events-site repository.