detailed outline for event

[ashumz]

• [ ] start with a very granular play by play and iterate on it together
• [ ] think about how to best convey this information to audience (slides as cues?), centrally located schedule on hackpad? all of the above?

  Tentative Schedule for NC Open Data Hackshop

  Friday, September 11

• 6:00 pm - Welcome Dinner & Networking
• 6:15 pm - Introductions to Event Organizers and Data Experts
• 6:30 pm - What's Possible with Census Data? with Kelly Karres and Ryan Dolan, Data Dissemination Specialists at U.S. Census Bureau
• 6:45 pm - What's possible with CitySDK with Jeff Meisel, Presidential Innovation Fellow
• 7:00 pm - Problem Pitching - What Problem do you want to Solve?
• 7:30 pm - Team Formation
• 8:00 pm - Getting Started with Waffle & GitHub
• 8:30 pm - Lean Canvas & Hackshop introduction
• 9:00 pm - Practice - Team Sprint 1 (Customer/Problem/Promise)
• 9:45 pm - What Data will You Need? w/ Kelly & Ryan

  Saturday, September 12

• 8:30 am - Breakfast, Lean Canvas Review & Data Check In's
• 9:00 am - Team Sprint 2 (problem/solution) (1 hr)
• 10:00 am - Mentoring & Feedback Panel
• 11:00 am - Hackshop: Pivot/Perservere
• 11:30 am - Team Sprint 3 (pivot/perservere) (1 hr)
• 12:30 pm - Hackshop Lunch & Learn: Running Experiments Towards MVP
• 12:50 pm - Announcements
• 1:00 pm - Team Sprint 4 (build/test)
• 2:30 pm - How to Pitch with Andrew
• 2:30 pm - Team Sprint 5 (pitch building)
• 3:30 pm - Pitches Begin
• 4:00 pm - Judging & Prizes

---

Friday, September 11

• 6:00 pm - welcome dinner, introductions talk throughout dinner to explain purpose, supplement with slides, share Ashley and Jeff’s story around using Waffle for hackathons and how things got started, demo Waffle and GitHub together during dinner 6:30 - Kelly & Ryan talk through data overview *- 6:45 pm - get started with GitHub and Waffle (1 hr if needed)
• 7:45 pm - 45 mins of brainstorming with 5 minute breaks between (15/5, 15/5, 15/5)
• 8:45 pm - 15 minute break
• 9:00 pm - explain lean canvas in context of identifying problem and customer first and foremost*
• 9:15 pm - explain how it’s used and work through example (maybe)
• 9:30 pm - consolidate sticky notes from ideation onto lean canvas. Emphasize early adopter and problem. Who are you going to talk to and can you reach them? If not, we’ll have an advisory board tomorrow to help.
• 9:45 pm - closing - talk about next steps (interviewing customers, UVP - "your promise", and moving toward problem/solution fit)

  Saturday, September 12

• 8:30 am - breakfast and conversation
• 8:30 am - lean canvas review
• 9:00-9:15 - what is a testable solution?/MVP 9:15-10 - Sprint 1 Decide on your customer, problem, UVP(promise), and a testable solution
• 10-11 - advisory panel for early feedback on ideas, consider iterating on solution, record any pivots (will become part of your pitch)
• 11:00-11:45 Sprint 2
• 12:00 - lunch available
• 12:15 data check in with Kelly & Ryan
• 1:00- 2:30 - sprint 3 - build build build!
• 2:30 - prepare to pitch with Andrew (20 mins)
• 2:45-3:15-ish - build your pitch
• 3:30 - pitches begin (5 minutes each)
• 4 - judging and closing

[homeyer]

Friday evening - data peptalk and explanation of data sets from Kelly Saturday - data checkin from Kelly, offer mentor help and how to reach them