- 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)
When
Jay: Every chat I've ever had with anyone about doing something like this has pointed to winter - I think everyone wants to be outside during the summer. I'd suggest maybe February as being the darkest and dreariest month, which gives us about 10 months to plan and prepare.
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.
David Crow and I are hooked into the Newpath Network for non-profits. We might be able to scare up a real project for you... interested? how would we go about that?
DeborahHartmann
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
Attendees
DeborahHartmann - heck, I can code HTML... can I play? :-)
