# ParaView hackathon Wednesday, March 24

**URL:** https://discourse.paraview.org/t/paraview-hackathon-wednesday-march-24/6533
**Category:** Announcements
**Created:** [February 23, 2021, 4:38pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/paraview-hackathon-wednesday-march-24/6533 "2021-02-23T16:38:32Z")
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#### Post date: [February 23, 2021, 4:38pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/paraview-hackathon-wednesday-march-24/6533/1 "2021-02-23T16:38:33Z")

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**Kitware will be holding a ParaView hackathon on Wednesday, march 24, from 8am EST (2pm GMT+2) to late.**

It is open to anyone willing to contribute, with or without coding skills.

Here are the objectives of this hackathon :

- Cleaning up any warnings or issues on the dashboards.
- Check and fix simple outstanding issues.

This hackathon will, of course, be only virtual.  
Click to add to your calendar: [https://kutt.it/H5A20H](https://kutt.it/H5A20H)

A Google Meet meeting will be accessible here: [https://meet.google.com/wij-thwu-xup](https://meet.google.com/wij-thwu-xup).  
It will NOT be used for extensive communications and discussions, but only for short questions, greetings and cheering up 🙂

A slack channel will also be accessible, technical questions and discussions will surely take places there : [Slack](https://kitware-courses.slack.com/archives/C01NVDVT9KQ)

**If you are not a kitwarean, please make sure to send me a private message here or a mail at [mathieu.westphal@kitware.com](mailto:mathieu.westphal@kitware.com) to be able to gain access.**  
If you are a kitwarean, please make sure to accept the event you have been invited to, you will then be invited to the slack.

Before the hackathon, Issues will be tagged with the `hackathon` tag.  
It means they have been identified to be addressable in some forms during the hackthon.  
[Thoses Issues](https://gitlab.kitware.com/paraview/paraview/-/issues?scope=all&utf8=%E2%9C%93&state=opened&label_name%5B%5D=triage%3Ahackathon)

**Certain issues will also have been tagged with the `dashboards` tag.**  
**It means these issues are related to the dashboard. Please focus on these issues.**  
**[Those issues](https://gitlab.kitware.com/paraview/paraview/-/issues?scope=all&utf8=%E2%9C%93&state=opened&label_name%5B%5D=triage%3Ahackathon&label_name%5B%5D=area%3Adashboards)**

Certain issues will also have been tagged with the `needs-testing` tag.  
It means these issues should be tested to see if they can still be reproduced or can be closed.  
Once tested, they may or may not be fixed during the hackathon.  
[Those issues](https://gitlab.kitware.com/paraview/paraview/-/issues?scope=all&utf8=%E2%9C%93&state=opened&label_name%5B%5D=triage%3Ahackathon&label_name%5B%5D=triage%3Aneeds-testing)

Certain issues will also have been tagged with the `documentation` tag.  
These types of issues generally do not require any kind of Programming knowledge.  
[Those issues](https://gitlab.kitware.com/paraview/paraview/-/issues?scope=all&utf8=%E2%9C%93&state=opened&label_name%5B%5D=triage%3Ahackathon&label_name%5B%5D=area%3Adoc)

Certain issues will also have been tagged with the `easy` tag.  
It means these issues would be perfect for a ParaView beginner to try and fix them.  
[Those issues](https://gitlab.kitware.com/paraview/paraview/-/issues?scope=all&utf8=%E2%9C%93&state=opened&label_name%5B%5D=triage%3Ahackathon&label_name%5B%5D=triage%3Aeasy)

When closing an issue, either by a fix or because issue is not present anymore, make sure to add the `needs-verifications` tag and to remove the `needs-testing` tag.

Please make sure to read our [develop guide](https://gitlab.kitware.com/paraview/paraview/-/blob/master/Documentation/dev/git/develop.md)

Q&A :

> I want to contribute but I’m only a ParaView user and I’d rather not use git.

You can absolutely contribute by testing the issues with the `needs-testing` tag, see above.

> I want to contribute and I know how to use git, but am not a programmer.

You can absolutely contribute by improving ParaView documentation, see above.

> I want to contribute and am a Programmer, but never touched ParaView code before.

This hackathon is the perfect time to start ! You may want to try to fix an `easy` tagged issue.

> I have an idea for a feature for ParaView !

This hackathon is focused on issue fixing. Nevertheless, this is the perfect place to try and learn about ParaView and the developement process.

> I don’t know what to do, how to merge, what is the next step, unsure about anything.

Either tag me in the slack or on gitlab 🙂.