Random Hacks of Kindness, Dec 2012
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This document provides information for participants of the RHoK (Rural Hackathon Kampala) event in Southampton from December 1-2, 2012. It outlines logistical details like the venue location, schedule, and social media plans. It also introduces some local problems for teams to solve and lists several global problems featured on the RHoK website for teams to potentially work on across multiple locations. The document encourages participants to sustain their work after the event and provides information on related organizations and opportunities.
Random Hacks of Kindness, Dec 2012
- 1. RHoK Southampton 1-2 Dec 2012
- 2. Welcome (again) ! ● Second RHoK in Southampton ● ~30 worldwide locations #rhoksoton
- 3. Thanks to...
- 4. Housekeeping ● We are in building 53 (Mountbatten) ● Read through the visitor leaflets ● Need to swipe to get out ● Vacate the building between 23:00-08:00 DO NOT USE THE EMERGENCY EXIT BUTTON ● Emergency number: 3311 We are guests, behave accordingly!
- 6. Social Media ● We are part of a global event and globally monitored ! ● 30 locations, +3000 participants ● Join in cross location hangouts
- 7. Agenda 09:00 - Welcome & problem statement presentations 10:00 - Form groups and hackathon begins 12:00 - Sandwiches & talks 17:30 - Team status reports 18:00 - Pizza 23:00 - Everybody out 08:00 - Doors open 09:00 - Breakfast 10:00 - Team status reports 12:00 - Pizza 15:00 - Hackathon ends & judging begins 17:00 - Judging completed & prizes awarded
- 8. Social Media ● Dedicated UStream channel ○ http://www.ustream.tv/channel/rhoksoton ● Everybody encouraged to ■ tweet using #rhoksoton ■ make videos ■ share pictures ■ give interviews ■ ... ● Let me (Dirk / @elazungu) know ! ○ Dedicated youtube/flikr channels
- 9. Problems ● Local problems ○ 5-10min pitches ○ on-site help and feedback ● Global problems ○ Well vetted problems ○ Coordinate across locations (irc / hackpad) ● Important ○ Decide on a team name + members ○ Have Dirk create a Github repo under the RHoKSoton organization ○ Ensure final solutions are added to rhok.org
- 10. Sustainability GWB Humanitarian Accelerators
- 12. Global problems ● No more Tro-Tro-uble Public Transportation App (Ghana) ● Granular Health Map ● ACCOUNTability ● Language Lesson Generator ● Sheltr (mapping homelessness) ● Open Defecation Reporting ● Efficient Septage Collection Systems ● Crap Calculation ● Where2Trash ● Real Time Info for Bushfire planning ● ... http://www.rhok.org/featured-problems-december-2012
- 15. RLabs
- 16. Presentation prep ● Create 15 min presentation ○ upload on slideshare under rhoksoton account ● Create 1 min video & upload to rhoksoton youtube channel ● Create a solution page on the rhok site ○ attach problem, github, slideshare, ... ○ attach to "Southampton, UK" ● Fill out shared google doc ○ see Dirk
- 17. Congrats! ● Lots of hard work! ● But.... ○ This was the easy part ○ Tiny part of the puzzle ○ Much harder is to keep going ● You already made it to the 10% ● Now be the 3%
- 18. Thanks to...
- 19. Feedback?
- 20. What next? ● App-accelerator ● Stay involved ○ Global South Forum ○ Geeks Without Bounds ○ Geeks for Peace ○ RHoK Summit ○ CleanwebUK ○ Crisismappers ○ RLabs ○ Engineers without Borders ○ ICT4D ○ ...