Festival2012/Submit/Jumping between hacks and hackers
- Title of session: Jumping between hacks and hackers communities
- Your name and affiliation: Mariano Blejman Hacks/Hackers Buenos Aires
- Session format: (Fireside Chat)
Contents
What will your session or activity allow people to make, learn or do?
We've been working hard last year and a half building the second biggest Hacks/Hackers community around the world with 1670 members, and about 15 meetups and hackathons. We created the HHBA Media Party, biggest mediathon ever in Southamerica with 700 participants in three days. So bringing the two worlds togethers, we've reached some "expertise" that could be awesome to share and discuss: how to encourage open source communities to engage content ideas, how encourage journalists to work with hackers. The most important is what the fuck does a journalist do in a hackathon, and why is that important. Does journalists needs to learn to code? What for? How long it takes? How to track ideas during the hackathon, how to keep datasets ready to go, and how don't to loose the effort and energy of the community after the events.
How do you see that working?
We will share our expertise and ask for others to understand the problems that we found, the ideas that we have, the tools that we've builded to solve those problems and next challenges. Wi will discuss wich is the best way to track ideas and people, what is possible and what is not possible to do in a hackathon who merge journalists and coders, and how to keep going with the projects after that.
How will you deal with 5, 15, 50 participants?
Anyone working with hacks and hackers communities around the world could join us, we think that 10 or 15 people could be great.
How long within your session before someone else can teach this?
Two hours of this Fireside Chat could be enough to understand and share the best way to merge those two worlds.
What do you see as outcomes after the festival?
We expect that participants could spare different experiencies from London through the rest of the world to let the hacks and hackers communities grows in the directions that locals needs.
