Hackathon Recap News

Author: Serap Aydin

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-::: info **Save The Date - DSF Community Events 2026**
-The DSF Community invites you to two events in the first quarter of 2026:
-* **1. DSF Hackathon ([online](https://dsf.dev/hackathon)) – January 20, 2026, 10:00 a.m.–4:00 p.m.**
-* **2. DSF Spring School – February 24–26, 2026 at Heilbronn University**
-[Read more](posts/2025-12-20-save-the-date-2026.md)
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+**DSF Community Hackathon 2026 Recap**
+On **January 20**, 2026 we hosted the **DSF Community Hackathon**, bringing together **over 60 participants** to support locations migrating to the new **DSF 2.0.1 release**. Through presentations, hands-on online support, and direct assistance with updating their DSF instances and process plugins. The event proved to be an overall success, with 35 instances running DSF 2.0.1 now.
+[Read more](posts/2026-01-21-hackathon.md)
 
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-**Recap: DSF Community Meeting 2025 in Heidelberg**
-The DSF Community meet-up in Heidelberg brought together developers and contributoers to share ideas and discuss the latest progress in the DSF Community project. Highlights included updates on DSF 2.0, API 2.0, and a sneak peek at the new Linter Tool. The event wrapped up with a look ahead to 2026. 
-[Read more](/posts/2025-11-18-dsf-meet-up-2025)
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+title: "DSF Community Hackathon 2026 Recap"
+date: 2026-01-21
+type: "news"
+excerpt: "On January 20, we hosted the DSF Community Hackathon, bringing together over 62 participants to support Locations in migrating to the new DSF 2.0.1 release. Through presentations, hands-on online support, and direct assistance with updating the DSF, process plugins, and more, the event proved to be an overall success."
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+category: 
+  - News
+tags:
+  - News
+  - Hackathon
+  - Events
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+The **DSF Community Hackathon**, held on **January 20, 2026**, focused on supporting organisations that run the DSF in adopting the new [**DSF 2.0.1**](https://github.com/datasharingframework/dsf/releases/tag/v2.0.1) release. The event kicked off with presentations by Hauke Hund on DSF 2.0 and API 2.0, the Ping Pong plugin by Jan Böhringer, followed by further support sessions and announcements e.g. for the [**Spring School 2026**](https://dsf.dev/spring-school/).
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+The event attracted **over 60 participants**, who actively took part in the online hackathon. The event provided direct, hands-on assistance for migrating existing setups to the newest DSF version and updating the required MII process plugins. 
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+To support each location, we offered individual breakout rooms for direct assistance. The format of the event was an overall success. At the end of the Hackathon **17 Organizations** are now running the DSF 2.0.1 release in production, and **over 20 locations** are running it in their test environments. Other organizations will follow up on the migration in the coming weeks.
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+We like to thank all participants for joining and participating in the Hackathon. Regarding the feedback the  hackathon helped to ease the transition to **DSF 2.0.1**. We are looking forward to see you at our next community event.