- Date: TBD
- Time: TBD
- Location: TBD
- Post Location: TBD
- Expected Attendance: All are welcome! Please add yourself to the Attendees list below so we have some idea of the size of the crowd.
Mini-FAQ
- What's the point?
- Building on the success of the TorCamp and DemoCamp events, we want to bring the best and the brightest together to spend a weekend building some really cool web apps for a worthy cause.
- Who can come?
Schedule
Tentative and very rough schedule suggestion from Jay:
Friday
- 7:00pm - 8:00pm Registration/Signin, General Mingle
- 8:00pm - 8:30pm General Welcome, Introduction, Rules and Regs, OpenSpace Concept
- 9:00pm - 9:30pm Presentation of the Client Briefing and Q&A
- 9:30pm - 11:30pm Team interviews with Client Reps
- 11:30pm - 8:30am Team Time
- Total work time (incl. interviews: 11 hours)
Saturday
- 8:30am - 9:30am Breakfast
- 9:30am - 11:30am Team interviews with Client Reps (Architecture and Design)
- 11:30am - 12:30pm Team Time
- 12:30pm - 1:30 pm Lunch
- 1:30pm - 7:30pm Team Time
- 7:30pm - 9:30pm Dinner and Presentations (Each team to be assigned a relevant topic to do five minute presentation on? Something to break up the evening)
- 9:30pm - 8:30am Team Time
- Total work time (incl. interviews: 20 hours)
Sunday
- 8:30am - 9:30am Breakfast
- 9:30am - 10:30am Team interviews with Client Reps (Beta Approval)
- 10:30am - 1:00pm Team Time
- 1:00pm Deadline for all final entrants
- 1:00pm - 2:30pm Team Final Presentation prep/initial judging time
- 2:30pm - 4:30pm Team Final Presentations (What they learned, what worked, what didn't, innovations, etc.)
- 4:30pm - 7:30pm Free time to recover/judging time
- 7:30pm - 9:30pm Dinner and Awards Presentation
- Total work time (incl. interviews: 4.5 hours)
Sponsorship
We will need a fair amount of sponsorship to pull this event off. Please add ideas below.
- Facility (to accommodate teams, eating, sleeping, etc.)
- Network connection
- Ideas: if we do it in an area covered by Beanfield, we might be able to get them to provide a connection (they provide Radiant Core's office)
- Food
- Breakfast Sat:
- Lunch Sat:
- Dinner Sat:
- Breakfast Sun:
- Lunch Sun:
- Dinner Sun:
- General Beverages/Snacks:
- Prizes:
- Grand Prize:
- Honourable Mentions:
- Participation:
Applications to Build
Obviously we'll need to pick an application to build. Some thoughts:
- Should require a team of about five people (two developers, one designer, one UXer, one HTML/CSSer or some combination thereof)
- Should be entirely possible to reach a v.1.0 release in approximately 35 hours of time (assuming no one sleeps)
- Could be an app for a non-profit
- Will any of the apps realistically be useable by the end of the weekend?
- Will they be trustworthy enough for real deployment?
- Could be an app to make holding future WebSlams by anyone around the world much easier
- Team registrations
- Planning
- PayPal integration
- Blog/RSS
- Project workspaces
- etc.
Prep Package
We'll need to decide how much information gets shared in advance. Some thoughts:
- A package of information that provides a very high-level brief of the problem space
- A list of reading materials broken down by role (e.g.: developers should check out these open source applications/technologies, UXers should read these papers, designers should be familiar with work appealing to this market, etc.)
- Checklist of what to bring
- Checklist of what NOT to bring
