Welcome

Join us in person for the May 2025 nf-core hackathon in Boston!

This hackathon will be held as part of the Nextflow Summit 2025 in Boston, USA and is organised jointly.

Nextflow Summit 2025 - Boston

Projects

We’ll work in projects during the hackathon. Projects can be anything from:

  • Adding new features to existing pipelines
  • Adding and improving components (modules / subworkflows)
  • Improving the website and nf-core tooling
  • Creating entirely new pipelines
  • Discussion and planning community initiatives
  • Working on special interest group topics
  • …anything else

You can bring your own favourite topic or choose from a list of open issues in the community. Each project has a lead person who can point you in the right direction.

You don’t need to commit to a single project and are free to move around groups and projects throughout the event.

Submit a new project

If you have an idea for a project that you think would be fun to do during the hackathon, please add it to the website by submitting a pull-request to the nf-core/website repository.

You need to add a new markdown file to the sites/main-site/src/content/hackathon-projects/hackathon-boston-2025 directory.

See existing files for examples, if you’re unsure about anything please ask in Slack or in the pull-request. The front-matter YAML at the top of the file should be filled in as follows:

  • title: Short and self-descriptive name for the project
  • category: One of pipelines, components, tooling
  • slack: If your project already has an obvious Slack channel (eg. a pipeline) then right click it and Copy link and fill in here. Otherwise, create a hackathon-specific channel for your project with the pattern #hack-may-2025-<project-name>.
  • image: A meme, silly picture or any other image to make your project more memorable. Add to the sites/main-site/src/assets/images/events/2025/hackathon-may directory as part of your PR.
  • image_alt: Text description of your image.
  • leaders: One or more contact people for your project (array)
    • Each key under leaders: Your GitHub username
      • name: Your name
      • slack: Link to your Slack user. Find this by right clicking your name in Slack and selecting Copy link

The body text can provide any context and background. Projects should have at least one goal mentioned in the body text under a ## Goal heading that you want to try to achieve by the end of the hackathon.

Join a project

Joining a project is as simple as turning up and sitting down at the table of the project you’re interested in.

You can move freely between projects throughout the event.

List of projects