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In pursuit of fair co-creation

Slides from our DINAcon 2018 session now available! 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.

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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
      • (informal, neologism) An event where programmers and others meet for collaborative software development.
    • "predicate" -> exploitation
      • Borrowed from French exploitation, from exploiter (“exploit”), from Latin explicō (“unfold, deploy”).
    • "object" -> precarization
      • (sociology) a condition of existence without predictability or security, affecting material or psychological welfare.
  • Share relevant projects
  • 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 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
    • 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