Observed arrival · 2026-09-23
Hackontest turns feature requests into a 24-hour open-source marathon
The site describes a Zurich event where communities propose scoped features and invited teams work on them in public.
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- Free-software users and project communities
- Worth noticing
- Requests are meant to name the user, the failure, and what “done in 24 hours” would look like.
Field notes
The described process asks communities to submit short requests with a defined user, problem, and achievable scope. A jury then selects three teams, with community support and readiness to implement among its stated criteria. The page lists several established Free Software projects and says dates, venue, and prize money appear when an edition opens; it does not provide those edition details in the extracted text.
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