Hack Day

ABOUT

Hack Day participants will select a project to work on that seeks to increase the positive impact of open education resources on education, broadly put. Self-organizing teams will aim to rapidly develop a working idea for a project, service, model, program, website or tool into a mockup or prototype by the end of the day, coupled with a creative pitch that includes clear ideas for implementation, funding, workflow, and future development. Participants will include a small group of conference attendees as well as other guests and members of the Berkman community.

Projects will be pre-conceived, based on conference takeaways, or newly presented on the morning of. Teams will combine the expertise and insight of coders, data manipulators, visualizers, big thinkers, community builders, hackers, academics, students and others. Teams will seek to rapidly develop a prototype with the goal of developing implementation, funding, and use models with an example workflow, and in some cases, actual data. The ideal project is fundable and implementable. Projects will be judged at the end of the day by a panel of knowledgeable, connected people from inside and outside the Berkman and open education communities. The event will not be limited to coders or those more technically oriented; it will also be a space for coming up with action items for policy innovation, developing and furthering best practices and norms, and facilitating relationship-building across communities.

For inspiration, see Jonathan Zittrain's call to encourage more hackathons: http://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2011/06/15/computer-sciences-sputnik-moment/encourage-more-all-night-hackathons.

The Hack Day will open with an informal get-together on the evening of Thursday, April 12th that will facilitate team formation.

HOW TO USE THIS WIKI PAGE

Throughout the Hewlett OER Grantees Meeting 2012, in the days leading up to the hack day, participants will record ideas of actionable/hackable/solvable problems. Ideas can be easily listed on this wiki page, in the below section. 1-2 sentences of description or just jotting down ideas are both welcome. Participants attending the Grantees Meeting are encouraged to add actionable ideas to this page as they come up over the course of the conference. Other participants are encouraged to add their own preexisting ideas, or new ones as the list evolves.

As the Hack Day approaches and the idea list grows, participants can begin to self-organize into teams through the wiki and at the meetup the evening of Thursday, April 12th.

PROJECT IDEAS

This list encompasses problems and ideas that are hackable/actionable/solvable. as well as potential outputs for the hack day. As the list gets populated, the organizers will prompt participants to draw connections between related ideas and self-organize into groups around their interests.

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PARTICIPANTS

Please be in touch with Nathaniel Levy (nlevy@cyber.law.harvard.edu) to be added to this list or if you have any questions.

• Amar Ashar
• Nathaniel Levy
• Andrew Magliozzi
• SJ Klein
• Erhardt Graeff
• Joshua Gay
• Michelle D'Souza
• Lisbeth Levey
• David Wiley
• Peter Forsythe