It's time to go! [Feb. 6, 2012, 11:11 a.m.]
These challenges are designed to help you think about the many things that go into planning an event. If you've gotten this far, you're ready to jam with your participants. You planned this, so don't be nervous. You too are learning. Be adaptive, follow your plan, be clear and maintain focus. If you do those things, you'll run a totally Awesome Event. Remind your peers that your event is happening by posting it here in the discussion wall.
Don't forget to:
- Share the hashtag for the event with your participants. Allow participants to vocalize their excitement!
- Allow partipants 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, project manager, documentarian, etc. Find out what people are interested in and then inspire them to commit to doing something that stimulates that interest. Record given roles and post them on the discussion wall.
- Take pictures, lots of pictures. Submit them to a public repository like Flickr and post the URL here.
- Get feedback from your participants. Before the end of the hackjam, you want to find out what your participants thought. Ask them! Get them to talk about what they made, what they liked or disliked about the event. Gather the participant's responses and create a summary blogpost that links to them. Post the url.
- Determine Next Steps At the end of the day, your participants are going to be pumped. Discuss next steps with them. Do you want to arrange a meetup? Get your participants involved in the planning process!