Hacks at Tecnoestiu @CitiLab
Today we had a hack jam session at Citilab's Tecnoestiu project, with 16 kids from a summer camp at Fundació Marianao, from 10 to 12 years, who worked in pairs changing images and texts of several webpages using the Hackasaurus X-Ray Googles. We started by seeing first an analogy with "hacking" a paper magazine (pasting some images in a kind of collage) and then went straight to a live demo of Grover as a Google logo and some other minor but funny changes on the popular search engine. We'll have videos and pics soon, but here's a short gallery of some of the best hacks (in Spanish still).
Initial collage as a starter
= Grover hacks Google demo
ToDo list
- Translate to Spanish & Catalan http://hackasaurus.org/goggles.php and what's needed at https://github.com/hackasaurus/webxray
- Also details for teachers and other facilitators at http://etherpad.mozilla.com:9000/jammin
- https://wiki.mozilla.org/Drumbeat/Hackasaurus/Roadmap
- Sketch out localization strategy & implications with Atul
- Consider using http://netfools.com/puzzle/
- Also the missions at https://secure.toolness.com/webxray/missions/
- Are the missions required for your event? Suggest taking this out of scope.
- Also if possible http://htmlpad.org/ and left text of http://htmlpad.org/test/edit
- Again: let's co-ordinate on larger localization strategy / implications.
- The English copy for these pages is being re-written. Will be done by mid-June.
- Organise two Hack jams at July (Citilab & probably Golferichs center) following recommendations from http://jessicaklein.blogspot.com/2011/04/youth-design-jams-101-building-your.html and http://openmatt.wordpress.com/2011/04/26/best-hackasaurus-event-ever/
- Fully document the session (video + wiki) in Catalan/Spanish/English
- Spread the initial results through local channels and educational nodes
Check
- Each Thursday (9pm Barcelona): http://etherpad.mozilla.com:9000/Hackasaurus-community-call
- Also plans at http://etherpad.mozilla.com:9000/Hackasaurus-glroadmap and http://etherpad.mozilla.com:9000/Hackasaurus-eventroadmap
Hack Jams
- Citilab (mid July)
- Golferichs (mid July, to be confirmed)
- Televall (mid July, to be confirmed)