Through much of July, Razvan Nitu and Eduard Staniloiu organized and carried out their third D Summer School at University POLITEHNICA of Bucharest. This time, they did several things differently, leading to their biggest event yet. They've provided some details on the blog:

https://dlang.org/blog/2021/08/26/d-summer-school-v3/

Reddit:
https://www.reddit.com/r/d_language/comments/pc0ppo/d_summer_school_v3/

On Thursday, 26 August 2021 at 14:33:25 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:

Very nice event and blog.

I wonder about the hackathon: did you, Razvan et al., pre-selected a list of bugzilla issues to work on?

About the intimidacy of contributing bugfixes: it could be worth trying to demonstrate during a lecture how fixing such an PR actually works, including the (technical) process of submitting a PR, with all the comments, naming conventions, etc.

On Friday, 27 August 2021 at 07:45:42 UTC, M.M. wrote:

Thanks!

We do have a keyword, "bootcamp", for simpler issues, but
some of those could be fairly complicated, therefore,
we internally selected a list of 10-20 issues that we
considered trivial.

That's an interesting proposal. It could potentially benefit both future
DSS students and first time contributors. Thanks for the suggestion.

Cheers,
RazvanN