# Request for Proposals: Elastic Search Hackday and Tech Talks **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Created:** [March 7, 2012, 6:39pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/request-for-proposals-elastic-search-hackday-and-tech-talks/6935 "2012-03-07T18:39:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![lucy](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/lucy/32/2965_2.png) [@lucy](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/lucy)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2012, 6:39pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/request-for-proposals-elastic-search-hackday-and-tech-talks/6935/1 "2012-03-07T18:39:33Z")
Hi everyone, I'm a developer at Rackspace Hosting in San Francisco. On 28. March we're hosting a hackday on and with Elastic Search. ``` http://hacktheplanet.github.com/hackday/2012/03/28/elastic-search-hackday/ ``` In the past it was useful to have tech talks in the morning (useful for hackers), as well as after-work tech talks, followed by demos and socializing. In the upcoming week we'll put up videos from last month's node.js hackday to give y'all an idea of how it goes. Please email me talk proposals if you're interested in giving one, or if you have questions or ideas. I know this is short notice for a geographically dispersed community, but would be great nonetheless to have a good turn out. Thanks, Lucy. ---
**Author:** ![Ivan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/df788c/32.png) [@Ivan](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Ivan)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2012, 12:22am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/request-for-proposals-elastic-search-hackday-and-tech-talks/6935/2 "2012-03-08T00:22:12Z")
Sounds fun but it is during the week. I guess you don't expect many employed people to stop by! -- Ivan On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 10:39 AM, lucy [a.downy.hint@gmail.com](mailto:a.downy.hint@gmail.com) wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I'm a developer at Rackspace Hosting in San Francisco. On 28. March > we're hosting a hackday on and with Elastic Search. > > ``` > http://hacktheplanet.github.com/hackday/2012/03/28/elastic-search-hackday/ > > ``` > > In the past it was useful to have tech talks in the morning (useful > for hackers), as well as after-work tech talks, followed by demos and > socializing. > > In the upcoming week we'll put up videos from last month's node.js > hackday to give y'all an idea of how it goes. > > Please email me talk proposals if you're interested in giving one, or > if you have questions or ideas. > > I know this is short notice for a geographically dispersed community, > but would be great nonetheless to have a good turn out. > > Thanks, > Lucy. ---
**Author:** ![lucy](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/lucy/32/2965_2.png) [@lucy](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/lucy)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2012, 7:13am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/request-for-proposals-elastic-search-hackday-and-tech-talks/6935/3 "2012-03-08T07:13:22Z")
We get a different crowd for the weekdays than the weekends. Does your company offer other investments in developers? Hackdays are useful training for: - Learning new technology - Working with experts (we go out of our way to invite contributors to give tech talks; I admit in this case that I don't have connections in the Elasticsearch community, so we'll see what happens) - Thinking creatively - Developing end-to-end skills and understandings (eg, maybe one doesn't normally do frontend work, but through dabbling one then works more efficiently with designers) - Designing and implementing under a time pressure - Getting stuff done I'm crossing my fingers for you to convince your manager :-/ On 7 Mrz., 16:22, Ivan Brusic [i...@brusic.com](mailto:i...@brusic.com) wrote: > Sounds fun but it is during the week. I guess you don't expect many > employed people to stop by! > > -- > Ivan > > On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 10:39 AM, lucy [a.downy.h...@gmail.com](mailto:a.downy.h...@gmail.com) wrote: > > > Hi everyone, > > > I'm a developer at Rackspace Hosting in San Francisco. On 28. March > > we're hosting a hackday on and with Elastic Search. > > > [http://hacktheplanet.github.com/hackday/2012/03/28/elastic-search-hac](http://hacktheplanet.github.com/hackday/2012/03/28/elastic-search-hac)... > > > In the past it was useful to have tech talks in the morning (useful > > for hackers), as well as after-work tech talks, followed by demos and > > socializing. > > > In the upcoming week we'll put up videos from last month's node.js > > hackday to give y'all an idea of how it goes. > > > Please email me talk proposals if you're interested in giving one, or > > if you have questions or ideas. > > > I know this is short notice for a geographically dispersed community, > > but would be great nonetheless to have a good turn out. > > > Thanks, > > Lucy. ---
**Author:** ![Woland](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/woland/32/101616_2.png) [@Woland](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Woland)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2012, 6:46am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/request-for-proposals-elastic-search-hackday-and-tech-talks/6935/4 "2012-03-21T06:46:35Z")
> Will you have something like this in Los Angeles area? I'd be very > interested in attending. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2017, 3:35am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/request-for-proposals-elastic-search-hackday-and-tech-talks/6935/5 "2017-07-06T03:35:19Z")