[open-government] Hackathon - Running a Hackathon notes

Tue Nov 9 23:12:39 UTC 2010

Hi all,

I've started some notes at 
http://www.opendataday.org/wiki/Running_a_Hackathon

- it's mostly a list practical things to think about (I've been on teams 
for crisiscamps, hackathons and barcamps over the last year) so we can 
get the basic stuff started up front.

But... I don't know about anyone else, but I sure as heck could do with 
some practical advice on how to get people engaged - Oxford are setting 
a brilliant example of this, and it would be good to see some of their 
people ideas captured somewhere.

And I've left a space free for good ideas from all over the wikisite. 
With so many countries and cities joining in, there are bound to be some 
great ideas coming up (I've already nicked several for the Birmingham 
page :-) ).

Over to you now - I hope I've done the right thing here, but I didn't 
see any other contributions to this page, and thought I could at least 
start it off.

Thanks,

Sj.