In pursuit of fair co-creation

--- tags: dribdat --- In pursuit of fair co-creation === <span style="background:yellow">**[Slides from our DINAcon 2018 session](https://hackmd.io/p/BysvwNxp7) now available!**</span> [In pursuit of fair co-creation](https://dinacon.ch/sessions/2018/in-pursuit-of-fair-co-creation/) was a workshop facilitated by Gonzalo Casas, Oleg Lavrovsky & Reto Wick on October 19 in Bern. See also: [literature list](https://hackmd.io/s/S1_nyDIff). Please contact our interest group for more information, [edit](https://hackmd.io/c1WyqsUwTdyqyCL7MtmGjQ?both#Literature-on-Time-Bounded-Events) this document if you have something to add, visit [this forum thread](https://forum.schoolofdata.ch/t/19-10-dinacon-hacknight-2018/438?u=oleg) or our community [chat channel](https://team.opendata.ch/dinacon/channels/fair-co-creation) ([invite link](https://team.opendata.ch/signup_user_complete/?id=itniqb33kfrdj8i8phqxh5ence)), or write to *info* @ schoolofdata.ch - to join the discussion. The following people have contributed to this discussion: - Gonzalo Casas / [researchgate](https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Gonzalo_Casas2/interest) - Oleg Lavrovsky / [researchgate](https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Oleg_Lavrovsky) / [blog](https://blog.datalets.ch/author/oleg/) - Reto Wick / [dinacon](https://dinacon.ch/speakers/reto-wick/) ## Outline *Our plan of questions and topics for the workshop.* - How do you decide what hackathon to join? - Ask every participant to **share an event** they are planning to go to and/or have been at. - Bring a stack of Green and Red Post-Its for people to suggest "attractors" and "detractors", that we'll use in the **Flowchart** later on. - Let's define our scope - "subject" -> **[hackathon](https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/hackathon)** - (informal, neologism) An event where programmers and others meet for collaborative software development. - "predicate" -> **[exploitation](https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/exploitation)** - Borrowed from French exploitation, from exploiter (“exploit”), from Latin explicō (“unfold, deploy”). - "object" -> **[precarization](https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/precarization)** - (sociology) a condition of existence without predictability or security, affecting material or psychological welfare. - Share relevant projects - **Online platforms** - See [Mechanism for hackathon discoverability](https://github.com/loleg/dribdat/issues/112) in [DRIBDAT](https://github.com/loleg/dribdat/blob/master/ABOUT.md) (see [Whitepaper](https://github.com/hackathons-ftw/design/blob/master/Dribdat_Whitepaper_EN.pdf)) and [MakeZurich repo](https://github.com/make-zurich) (2018) - **Research projects** - [Hackathon as a Method: Social Innovation and Inclusion in the Social Sector](https://hackmd.io/s/HJPhKLz5M) (2019) - **Reading club** - We will print copies of a card with the link to our [literature list](https://hackmd.io/s/S1_nyDIff), in the style of the [Make badge](http://make.opendata.ch/wiki/user:home). - Lens / perspectives - **Role of the challenger** - Alignment of the expectations is critical between the organizing team and the challengers/experts/sponsors who take a initiating or guiding or managing role. - A recurrent source of friction is challengers who miss the point or are underwhelmed with the hackathon. - **Role of the participant** - Finding people you can work with is generally hard, the hackathon is team building on jet fuel. - Matching everyone's [expectations](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9553674) is hard, and guidelines can help. - We do not have many established tools and techniques for being effective during a hackathon. - **Role of the infrastructure** - What tools help us to make sure we build confidence in hackathons. - From pomodoro techniques, to build boxes, to data resources, to network and computing infrastructure, to environmental design. - Next steps - **Join the Hacknight, or another hackathon** - hacknight.dinacon.ch - hack.opendata.ch - makezurich.ch - ...start your own! - **Help make a Flowchart** - In a playful way our discussion should help to together define the criteria that will enable the discoverability thinking that will be part of Dribdat, etc. - As the "take home" part of the workshop, each participant who leaves us their postal address will get a nicely printed poster first edition, and possibly chocolate `;-)` - **Join the online discussion** - https://hackmd.io/s/HJzVtAEjQ