# Agility x New Work x Hack. `10.12.2020 ~ oleg.lavrovsky@BFH.ch` :o: --- :wave: **Hello all !** I am Oleg, - IT guy, software engineer, datapreneur - Guest lecturer @ BFH, working from [Köniz](https://koeniz.space) - Partner @ civic tech startup [cividi](https://cividi.ch) - **@loleg** on [twt](https://twitter.com/loleg)+[gh](https://github.com/loleg)+[lkdin](https://www.linkedin.com/in/loleg/)+[insta](https://www.instagram.com/loleg/)+[hack.opendata](https://hack.opendata.ch/user/loleg) --- Allow me to start with your questions: **1. Will every activity be monitored to make us more efficient?** If it _can_ be monitored, then someone is already in the business of making it so. **2. What requirements should an app for more productivity meet so that it doesn't become just another pastime?** Make it playfully accessible ... Connect it to real world business processes ... ??? ... $$$ !! **3. How has the notion of productivity changed over the last 10 years? What does productivity measure today? What is still missing?** I don't really know about notions, but I can try to relay a few impressions from my experience of a decade in the business. Productivity is a hamster wheel without impact. We could do with (being able to put) more trust in IT. **4. When you program a productivity app, what is the main concern/concept/idea behind it?** Let me show you one such app I've been programming ... ---  <!-- .element: style="display:inline;margin:0px;border:0px;box-shadow:none" --> Timekeeping: a famous Swiss tradition. ---  <!-- .element: style="display:inline;margin:0px;border:0px;box-shadow:none" --> Or, as I like to call it, timehacking ... ---  --- :running_shirt_with_sash: Hackdays, hacknights or hackathons are a kind of e-sport where participants make _playful use_ of tech resources to **stretch their data skills** within <font size="130%">strict time constraints.</font> :boom: ---  I started keeping time for Swiss open data hackers in 2011 --- <!-- .slide: data-background="#333333" -->  Today, dribdat is our main productivity tool ---  <!-- .element: style="margin:0px;border:0px;box-shadow:none;border:1px solid black" --> You can find it at hack.opendata.ch, along with a number of other sites linked at **[dribdat.cc](https://dribdat.cc)** --- ## dribdat is... - Swiss made software :flag-ch: - Open source (python/js) :snake: - Supports the Web of Data :open_file_folder: - Battle tested & multiplatform :meat_on_bone: - Makes hackathons +++awesum :rocket: - A good way to "dribble" with "data" :basketball: --- :octopus: I'm intrigued, so ## How does it work? --- [](https://now.makezurich.ch/event/4) Choose a challenge, join a team. ---  <small>Image: © 2014 [Linz Craig](http://www.linzeecraig.com/about-2/my-workspaces/mobile-hackerspace/)</small> Spread out your tools. The more open your instrument is to fellow team-mates, the easier it will be to collaborate with. Digital toolboxes are major [area #208](https://github.com/hackathons-ftw/dribdat/issues/208) of development. --- [](https://hack.opendata.ch/project/661) <!-- .element: style="margin:0px;border:0px;box-shadow:none" --> Develop 24 hour prototypes, publish them for quick validation and crowd-testing, link to any relevant materials. --- [](https://hack.opendata.ch/project/461) <!-- .element: style="margin:0px;border:0px;box-shadow:none" --> Post your progress, embed web-based prototyping and documentation platforms, share your sources, prove your participation, sign your work. ---  Get the data. For participants and organizers there is an open API with some built-in export and visualization tools, as well as integrations like Discourse & Disqus for quick evaluation and commentary to motivate sustained development. ---  Keep an eye on the clock! We use the platform to keep focused on the essential work of opening and promoting data sources, not worrying about whether your efforts will count. For organizers, this is a powerful instrument to accelerate their teams and boost overall impact. ---  <!-- .element: style="display:inline;margin:0px;border:0px;box-shadow:none" --> Most importantly: don't panic. Overcome the challenge. Understand your limits. Work as a team to break barriers. Tinker. Play. Achieve something of lasting value, and be recognized for it. --- ### Key goals :open_hands: **Fair** competition through cooperation and content :penguin: An ethical, social way to **hack** productivity limits :basketball: Tools to practice digital **teamwork** in a safe environment --- :moneybag: Support this at **[dribdat.cc](https://dribdat.cc)**, [GitHub](https://github.com/hackathons-ftw/dribdat/stargazers), [OpenCollective](https://opencollective.com/dribdat) or [AlternativeTo](https://alternativeto.net/software/dribdat/). :heart: Kudos to Nada & everyone else who has already helped to make this into a really great hack. --- ## 1 more thing .jpg) <!-- .element: style="display:inline;margin:0px;border:0px;box-shadow:none" -->  <!-- .element: style="display:inline;margin:0px;border:0px;box-shadow:none" --> Follow **hack4socialgood.ch** on December 11-13, 2020 ---  <!-- .element: style="display:inline;margin:0px;border:0px;box-shadow:none" --> <small>Original [image by rawpixel.com](https://www.rawpixel.com/image/520290/free-illustration-vector-elf-santa-claus-santa)</small> --- Thank you :man-bowing: ## oleg@utou.ch ### hack.opendata.ch/user/loleg <small>This presentation is shared under [CC BY 4.0](http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)</small>