Whats Next?

[athul]

First of all, thanks for being here.

Ha Ha Kerala is for you, the hacker, the builder, the maker. This issue thread is used for the potential Whats Next question. So please feel free to share your ideas here, and make an Issue here that needs special attention.

Please share what you'd like to remove in the Hackathons in Kerala.

Regards

[sreeram-venkitesh]

We should work on a specific structure on how we are planning to level up the hackathon game in Kerala.

1. Flagship hackathons organised by hhkerala, which will be of really high quality.
   • These will be organised by the core team of members
   • These people are at the bottom people who want to attend good hackathons and have attended quite a few before
   • They will know what the difference is between a good one and a bad one
   • Their previous experiences can be used to plan up a really good hackathon.
2. Open sourcing the blueprint of a perfect/ideal hackathon for other organisers to follow.
   • This may also include the open API for conducting hackathons

[athul]

We'll also need a code of conduct 😁. Yes a guide to a Hackathon for the people of Kerala will be immensely helpful to the organizers and Hackers alike. I had an idea in mind that,

• Yearly unconferences of organizers
• A website for all the Hackathons held in Kerala. We could build the api after a brainstorming session

[thetronjohnson]

We'll start off with an end user survey

• We need to consider the opinions of people who participate in a a hackathon, like stuff on what they expect from it
• We need to consider the opinions of organizers, what all problems they faced then
• We need to make an understanding from all these data we collected on how viable our platform is going to be

Only then we'll get a clear idea on where we are heading with this

[kaiiyer]

We'll start off with an end user survey

* We need to consider the opinions of people who participate in a a hackathon, like stuff on what they expect from it

* We need to consider the opinions of organizers, what all problems they faced then

* We need to make an understanding from all these data we collected on how viable our platform is going to be

Only then we'll get a clear idea on where we are heading with this

How about we make a group with at least one folk from every community and college club out there in Kerala for getting the wide spread opinions and also reaching back to the devs at their place

[kaiiyer]

@athul Hackathons are mostly about competition(if you exclude the vibe and networking). So i believe conducting events like Dev Sprints, technical workshops and meetups regularly would be a plus point for the beginners as well as the pros where we can learn and collaborate without worrying about the BUSINESS MODEL and the competition results.

[athul]

We could extend our help towards the above said too

[haxzie]

I'd recommend to build a high level community to help coordinate events across colleges and clubs in Kerala. Be a platform to connect clubs from across colleges and help each other by lending support through speakers and mentors. Some of the great examples are Mozilla TechSpeakers, HackClubs, GirlScript and CodingBlocks.