Organize a Hackasaurus Jam

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It's time to go!


Gear up, it's time to run this event

You've made it this far, so don't be nervous. Be adaptive, follow your plan, be clear and maintain focus. If you do those things, the event will be a success.

  1. Run through the agenda as prepared in Task 4. If it is a long event, make sure to build in periodic breaks, including personal and food breaks.
     
  2. Allow participants to assign themselves roles. Let people work together in teams and throughout the jam encourage them to take on specific roles on their project, such as visual designer, coder, or documentarian.  Find out what people are interested in and then encourage them to do something that stimulates that interest.
     
  3. Take lots of pictures.You'll want to document the event well and this can be a collaborative endeavor. Have participants tweet and share photographs in a common space – like a blog or on Flickr.
     
  4. Get feedback from your participants. Before the end of the jam, find out what your participants made, and ask them what they liked or disliked about the event. Gather the participant's responses and create a summary. Post it below in the Task Discussion.
     
  5. Determine Next Steps At the end of the day, your participants are going to be excited about their work. Discuss possible next steps with them. Do you want to arrange a meetup? Perhaps they just want some suggestions for resources for home study? Get your participants involved in the planning process! Post your next steps here as well.


Comment on two of your peers participant responses and next step posts.

Alternatively, you can post your work for this Task on your blog and link to it in the Task Discussion.

 

Task Discussion


  • JeanAustinR said:

    We have documented the three events including our plan, the photos during and after the Webmaker events we held. To get the information, please go to http://www.jeanaustinr.com/blog//?s=Summer+Code+Party

    Thank you

    on Oct. 31, 2012, 10:07 p.m.

  • eshu9e said:

    This is a link to my work: http://www.krishna.com/user/eshu
    on April 13, 2012, 1:08 p.m.

  • Jess Klein said:

    Although we want this to appear as a youth led jam, we are giving adults the responsibilities of time keeping and coordinating the food. Other than that, we have a pretty good mix of skill sets. We are going to give the shy kids either DJ-ing or "documenting" roles. That way, we will also have some good photos for after the event.

    on Feb. 17, 2012, 10:29 a.m.