Outreach and think tank programs (Majoran / startup community)

[John Baxter]

Hey there hackers,

Thought I'd flag a few developments here at Majoran Distillery that might be of interest.  We're mostly thinking about the members here in the space so far, but we also have potential to involve broader networks.

We're exploring in parallel developing two separate programs, to tap into the collective resources in the community and get some good stuff done.

Firstly, a social outreach program.  A method for for-good ideas (e.g. work for NFPs or other projects) to be propositioned to the community that people can jump on board to work through collaboratively.  We have started two prototypes - one is Cold Code, an all-night hackathon to raise money and awareness for homelessness (led by Sam, one of our members), and the other is an app idea we are developing for Brad Chillcot / Welcome to Australia.

The second is an innovation think tank (and optional 'projects agency').  Where we get a bunch of members to host group think-tank sessions of 2-3 hours to help clients think outside the box on their problems.  Probably similar in principle to what Hackerspace has considered.  We're using Brad Chilcott's app project as our first prototype for the think-tank model, and will be trialling it with a couple of other pro-bono projects before seeing if we can operate a commercial model.

Let me know if you'd like to be kept in the loop, or if you generally think we should be involving a broader network in these programs.

John B

[kira...@gmail.com]

I would like to be kept in the loop personally if the general Hackerspace populace doesn't want to be.  :-)

Kylie

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[sighmon]

Hey John,
I like the sound of the cold-code hackathon.
Do you have any dates/links we can peruse for each project?
Si.

[John Baxter]

Simon, not much detail at this stage and no public pages up.

Chhai is going to meet Brad for an initial scoping session and we'll do an innovation tank session later this month... I think Tue 21st is a possibility.  We might need to be conservative on the numbers we bring along, but we can see how it pans out.

Cold Code is quite soon really, given we haven't done anything yet, from memory Tue 11th June.  It's core will be a bunch of people with laptops hanging out overnight (like 8pm-8am).  Still to decide if we're going to have a group challenge to hack through.  I'll post to the list when we have more info.

Kylie, good to hear. : )

John Baxter

[John Baxter]

Something has come up and we're diving in quicker than expected!

This Wednesday 10am-12 we are prototyping our first Majoran Lab session!

The focus is an NFP project website a couple of our members are working on (Equals Foundation - the old site).

All welcome at this first event - but note it will be rough.  I think I'm facilitating.  Sounds like trouble.

We have a Facebook event and everything.  At Majoran Distillery, L2 14 Grenfell St.

John Baxter