[hackathon] One week left to the first D Hackathon!

[kevin via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On Saturday, 18 April 2015 at 16:26:41 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu 
wrote:
> Join us for one week starting Saturday April 25th for the first 
> D Hackathon!
>
> The D Hackathon is one week of intense participation and 
> collaboration on anything and everything related to the D 
> programming language.
>
> All participants are encouraged to collaborate on the online 
> forums (http://forum.dlang.org/group/digitalmars.D), github 
> repos (https://github.com/D-Programming-Language), IRC (#d on 
> irc.freenode.net, use your favorite IRC client or 
> https://webchat.freenode.net).
>
> Please prepend forum posts related to hackathon with 
> "[hackathon]". (There should be little else!)
>
> Complete n00bs are encouraged to participate (tell your 
> friends!) and part of the purpose of the D Hackathon is to 
> lower the barrier to entry for would-be collaborators by means 
> of better documentation and tooling.
>
> Let's focus on creating a better, more inviting out-of-the-box 
> experience for everyone, and above all a better D language. 
> We'll officially measure hackathon results by the number of 
> preexisting bugs fixed, but do feel free to work on anything 
> you think is important to you. There is no other rule than 
> getting good work done.
>
> See you in one week!
>
>
> Andrei

On Saturday, 18 April 2015 at 16:26:41 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu 
wrote:
> Join us for one week starting Saturday April 25th for the first 
> D Hackathon!
>
> The D Hackathon is one week of intense participation and 
> collaboration on anything and everything related to the D 
> programming language.
>
> All participants are encouraged to collaborate on the online 
> forums (http://forum.dlang.org/group/digitalmars.D), github 
> repos (https://github.com/D-Programming-Language), IRC (#d on 
> irc.freenode.net, use your favorite IRC client or 
> https://webchat.freenode.net).
>
> Please prepend forum posts related to hackathon with 
> "[hackathon]". (There should be little else!)
>
> Complete n00bs are encouraged to participate (tell your 
> friends!) and part of the purpose of the D Hackathon is to 
> lower the barrier to entry for would-be collaborators by means 
> of better documentation and tooling.
>
> Let's focus on creating a better, more inviting out-of-the-box 
> experience for everyone, and above all a better D language. 
> We'll officially measure hackathon results by the number of 
> preexisting bugs fixed, but do feel free to work on anything 
> you think is important to you. There is no other rule than 
> getting good work done.
>
> See you in one week!
>
>
> Andrei

On Saturday, 18 April 2015 at 16:26:41 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu 
wrote:
> Join us for one week starting Saturday April 25th for the first 
> D Hackathon!
>
> The D Hackathon is one week of intense participation and 
> collaboration on anything and everything related to the D 
> programming language.
>
> All participants are encouraged to collaborate on the online 
> forums (http://forum.dlang.org/group/digitalmars.D), github 
> repos (https://github.com/D-Programming-Language), IRC (#d on 
> irc.freenode.net, use your favorite IRC client or 
> https://webchat.freenode.net).
>
> Please prepend forum posts related to hackathon with 
> "[hackathon]". (There should be little else!)
>
> Complete n00bs are encouraged to participate (tell your 
> friends!) and part of the purpose of the D Hackathon is to 
> lower the barrier to entry for would-be collaborators by means 
> of better documentation and tooling.
>
> Let's focus on creating a better, more inviting out-of-the-box 
> experience for everyone, and above all a better D language. 
> We'll officially measure hackathon results by the number of 
> preexisting bugs fixed, but do feel free to work on anything 
> you think is important to you. There is no other rule than 
> getting good work done.
>
> See you in one week!
>
>
> Andrei

Sounds exciting! as an aforementioned complete n00b, what can I 
do to prepare for the hackathon other than staring at the source 
code? I'm mostly interested in contributing for Phobos but I have 
never used D for any big projects before.