Hacking Days Hackathon
The two Hacking Days this year, will be run as a hackathon schedule/program.
Hackathon How to guide (from Open Data conference)
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Agenda for the Day
The main components for the day (and the approximate timing):
Wednesday 13th
- 09:00 - Introduction
- 09:30 - Brainstorming
- 10:00 - Break
- 10:30 - Pitches
- 11:00 - Breaking into Groups / Idea Development
- 11:30 - (Leave with metro for lunch place)
- 12:00 - Lunch
- 13:00 - Solution Development
- 17:00 - Social event (encourage to keep talking)
Thursday 14th
- 09:00 - Solution Development
- 15:30 - Show and Tell
- 17:00 - Close (end-of-workshop)
Brainstorming: ideas for projects
Brainstorming to find ideas for projects.
- 30 minute exercise
This is a personal exercise, but you are allowed to chat with people around you.
Please fill out the project form for ideas
People standup one-by-one, and share their idea with the room.
Purpose is to introduce their idea so that they can attract other people to work on their idea with them.
- People are encouraged to ask questions about the ideas.
Breaking into Groups
Voting with your feet.
- People move: pick up their belongings and move to the table where the person who pitched the idea they like best and that they want to work on, is sitting.
Perhaps reorganize the tables to fit group sizes.
Idea Development
Do NOT jump right in and start working on the project
- This is an 1 hour exercise (until lunch time)
Thinking and rethinking the proposed idea:
- Spend some time thinking about and developing the idea itself before diving into working on it.
- As a team: work on the whiteboards or on paper.
- Focus idea down to its core so that they can have something to demo.
Lunch
Encourage folks to keep talking and working through lunch.
Concentration
Concentration is the stage where people are actively working on their projects.
Show and Tell
Give people an opportunity to show what they have worked on and get some feedback from the larger group.
