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Revision as of 12:05, 14 June 2012
Overview
Thanks for your interest in throwing an event during Summer Code Party!
This page will help you pull off a great event:
- Find online support for your event
- Join optional training sessions
- Give feedback and hack the process
Delivering in Beta
The Summer Code Party is a work-in-progress. It is a community-driven, collaborative effort.
Your feedback and ideas will help to understand what works.
Let us know:
- What lights people up?
- What your goals for hosting? How can we better serve your aims?
- How can this program be improved and where do you see potential?
— mozparty@mozilla.org
Online Support
There is a group of staff and volunteers dedicated to helping you before, during and after your event.
Communication Channels
If you need help at any time, you can:
- Read our FAQs
- Tweet us using the hashtag #mozhelp
- Join our IRC (online chat) irc://irc.mozilla.org#mozhelp
- Leave a message on our Facebook group
- Email mozparty@mozilla.org
Event Guides
Three event guides provide step-by-step advice for your event:
And here's a slidecast about hosing a kitchen table event.
If you are organizing a different kind of event or aren't sure about these categories, please contact us.
Feedback
We'd love to hear from you.
- Please use this survey for feedback about Thimble.
- Do you have a question not answered here?
- Are there ways to improve this program?
- Email mozparty@mozilla.org.
Host Training
We are also offering optional training for hosts.
These online "huddles" are intended to help you prepare for your event, troubleshoot any issues, and connect with other hosts.
The times are:
| June 20 | June 21 — Special for Asia | June 21 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kitchen Table hosts | 1300 UTC (more timezones) | 0500 UTC (more timezones) | 1600 UTC (more timezones) |
| Hack Jam hosts | 1400 UTC (more timezones) | 0500 UTC (more timezones) | 1700 UTC (more timezones) |
| Pop Up hosts | 1500 UTC (more timezones) | 0500 UTC (more timezones) | 1800 UTC (more timezones) |
Please dial in using:
- Conference Number: + 1 800-503-2899
- 7-Digit Access Code: 5435555
- International numbers
Host Training Agendas
Given the range of events happening throughout the summer, we are focusing the online training sessions around three event types:
If you are organizing a different kind of event or aren't sure about these categories, please contact us using the channels listed above.
Kitchen Table Host Training
- Introduction.
- Who's on the call?
- Where are you based?
- What are you planning?
- What would you like to leave the call with today?
- Participant Responses.
- Guest speaker: Discussion with a veteran Kitchen Table host from the community.
- Hear about their experience, challenges and lessons learned.
- Questions?
- Walk through a slidecast about hosting.
- Troubleshooting your issues and questions.
- How to get live support.
- Try out some tools to help you make things on the web.
- Thimble
- Popcorn Maker
- Other tools? What do you like to use?
- Talk about next steps.
- Best practices for sharing what you made.
- How to get participant feedback about your event.
- Planning the next one.
Happy Hacking!
- Blog posts from past kitchen table events:
Hack Jam Host Training
- Introduction.
- Who's on the call?
- Where are you based?
- What are you planning?
- What would you like to leave the call with today?
- Participant Responses.
- Guest speaker: Discussion with a veteran Hack Jam host from the community.
- Hear about their experience, challenges and lessons learned.
- Questions?
- Walk through a recommended Hack Jam agenda.
- Troubleshooting your issues and questions.
- How to get live support.
- Discussion about crafting a design challenge.
- How to engage your participants before the event.
- Effective ways to team up and collaborate on hack jam projects.
- What is a "minimum viable prototype"?
- Try out some tools to help you make things on the web.
- Thimble
- Popcorn Maker
- Other tools? What do you like to use?
- Talk about next steps.
- Best practices for sharing what you made.
- How to get participant feedback about your event.
- Planning the next one.
Happy Hacking!
- Blog posts from past Hack Jams:
Pop Up Host Training
- Introduction.
- Who's on the call?
- Where are you based?
- What are you planning?
- What would you like to leave the call with today?
- Participant Responses.
- Guest speaker: Discussion with a veteran Pop Up host from the community.
- Hear about their experience, challenges and lessons learned.
- Questions?
- Walk through a recommended Pop Up agenda.
- Troubleshooting your issues and questions.
- How to get live support.
- Discussion about building a learning network.
- How to engage local organizations before the event.
- What is connected learning?
- What makes a good learning station?
- Try out some tools to help you make things on the web.
- Thimble
- Popcorn Maker
- Other tools and projects? What do you like to use?
- Talk about next steps.
- Best practices for sharing what you made.
- How to get participant feedback about your event.
- Planning the next one.
Happy Hacking!
- Blog posts from past Pop Ups: