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In pursuit of fair co-creation
A handy hacky flowchart for hackathon-goers-to-be.
What is a hackathon? Every year, hundreds of these events pop up on weekends across the country. From corporate innovation experiments to chaotic co-creation jams, from competitive coding to cooperative maker events, from protected IP to open license models, there’s a hackathon for everyone’s taste. And yet, despite being labeled under the common "hackathon" name, their goals vary greatly. Since hackathons are used as a means for work precarization and free labor, the ambiguity of expectations brews potential misunderstanding among participants and stakeholders.
During the workshop on fair co-creation (online notes) at #DINAcon18, we discussed time-bounded collaborative events like hackathons common to many technical communities. With the workshops participants we built - in a collaborative manner - a list of attractors and detractors for participation in hackathons. This inspired us to, during #hacknight, start putting it together into a flowchart based on this list.
The flowchart is a playful* way to describe the metadata that we believe should be exposed by every hackathon in order to provide fair conditions to decide attendance. It may help guide potential hackathon participants about whether they should join or not a specific event, help hackathon organizers consider some of the issues at hand, or just amuse or confuse people.
(*) inspired by the cheeky and insightful flowcharts of the xkcd web comic
Prototype
Next steps
We will work on refining the design of this and creating a poster edition. Stay tuned!
LibreOffice
A fun end-user project that is easy to get into.
LibreOffice is a fun project that welcomes everyone. We provide a series of easy tasks to get working on here: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/EasyHacks/by_Required_Skill
Since it takes so long to build LibreOffice - we provide easy-to-use VM's with pre-built source trees - so that you can get going ~immediately. See me (purple T-shirt) to get an ssh key with more details here:
https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Hackfests/VMs/Using_a_VM
A list of some simple tasks that might be fun:
Killing some now un-needed dead code and testing ... as per description in: https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=120243
Avoid writing configuration potentially several times during startup: https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=92529
Calc: add drop-down on sum button: https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=120697
Challenges
caluma
A collaborative form editing service
Home Assistant
Open source home automation that puts local control and privacy first
openki
A tool to build up and organize local communities
starfrosch #hot111
Open source royalty free music charts
Konsole neu gedacht
Linux Essentials - mit modernem Touch
Privacy Butler
Will help you understand privacy notices with visual summaries
Transport
Swiss public transport API