Hack 'n' Dine
Alpine City Strategic Sprint 2025
Dear Plonistas!
It’s that time again! The next Alpine City Sprint is just around the corner—mark your calendars for February 10 to February 14, 2025.
Over the many years we've been organizing this sprint, a unique culture has developed around the event. One trend, in particular, emerged early on and has firmly persisted: Hack n Dine. What some might call an "unfortunate habit" has now become a celebrated tradition, and we’re officially embracing it as part of our culture!
Back in 2015, during our very first sprint, Robert and Jens even created a special logo for Hack n Dine. Now, ten years later, we’ll be awarding a special patch to those who have truly earned it.
Rest assured, for Sprint 2025, we’ll make sure there’s plenty of "space" for Hack n Dine to thrive.
So, what are you waiting for? See you at the sprint!
Registration and
List of Participants
2024
Tiny Shiny Alpine City Sprint
A spontaneous tiny shiny sprint for the Plone family from April 8th to 14th, 2024 in Völs at the Klein & Partner KG office.
We worked on deploing Plone on Kubernetes with Helm charts, documentation and several other topics.
We cooked together and had a great time.
2023
Plone in the Sky with Diamonds
25 participants pushed Plone forward. 3 new contributors joinded us. We worked on Volto, ClassicUI, Core and general architecture, deployment, roadmap discussions, processes around release management, continuous integration/testing, and infrastructure.
We had a panel discussion about remote work in IT, a visit to Swarovski Kristallwelten and a snow-day at the end.
2020
Relax with Plone
We pushed Plone core development towards 6.0. This includes planning Volto development and many workshops. We brought Plone Addons on it's path to work on Python 3.
With LEGO® Serious Play® we worked together to develop and visualize the visions, values and principles of Plone.
We spent a wonderful SPA day at Aquadome, Längenfeld, Ötztal .
2019
007 - With The License To Release
We pushed Plone to a 5.2 final release. Some bits and pieces were missing, but the result was a full working Plone 5.2 on Python 3 and several bugfixes for Zope 4. Multiple addons were ported to Python 3. It was a major success!
We spent one day sprinting on the mountain as high as 3048m! Some of us did some skiing/snowboarding, others enjoyed the 007 Elements James Bond exhibition about the movie Spectre.
2018
Push Plone 5.2 towards Zope 4 & Python 3
We brought Plone on its path to Python 3 and finally get it running.
We visited the OEWF Spacesuit Lab and its Mars Mission Support Center.
It ended with a Snow Day tobogganing down through white forests at Wildschönau.
2017
Plone Core, Zope 4, Python 3
We worked on porting Zope 4 to Python 3 and Plone to Zope 4, the next generation auf Zope. We visited the Brenner Base Tunnel construction site. Digging a 64km hole through the central alps feels similar to digging in 20yo code bases.
2016
Plone - dig deep, tidy up
Five long days of talking, coding, poking into the depth of Zope2 and also after 5 days of fun, wine, beer and delicious food, great views on and from our mountains, some culture, lots of WTF and opening of pandoras boxes.
2015
Plone 5.0 fixing and GTD
We worked mainly on tasks to get Plone 5.0 out of the door and also fixed add-ons to work with Plone 5.0. In order to cool down like a atom, we visited the IQOQI and had a Hack'n'Dine at Seegrube with a great view down to Innsbruck.