> But I like helping people work on open source, for that to work we need to
> have people who have some experience with the project in question

> My suggestion is: A big list of prepared idea / projects, each project
> should have someone on hand that has prepared it and is willing / able to
> help out

> At the start we explain the prepared ones and ask people to submit their
> own, we the organise into teams and hack

> Pretty simple, but still quite a lot of work, there are a few things that
> would make a good project
>  * has an end goal (get patch submitted, app built and published online)
>  * can be done in a day
>  * can be split up into a few people
>  * has some form of public interaction so everyone can 'get involved'

> This would is an example list

>  * Get a patch submitted to CouchDB (I can be on hand to help build and
> answer any questions)
>  * Build a online directory of cycle paths (I would need to collect as much
> of the data beforehand)
>  * Stage a RoboCode tournament(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robocode) (I
> would need to make sure I knew how it works and could get it sorted)
>  * Get started with Arduino
>  ....

> RoboCode thing could be pretty cool since its only a few people that do it,
> but everyone can enjoy the tournament

> There are a few people who I think will be interested in helping out with
> this, Devon from culture hack has a lot of experience with hackathon and
> could submit a few proposals, Same with Phil from pusher, I talked to
> someone from hacklab who could help with Arduino stuff

> The main point is that there needs to be a lot of work done on preparation,
> I think the best way is for each of is to prepare a few projects that can be
> hacked on

> As for the server sponsorship, I dont think its majorly important, but
> having servers to put stuff on will be very useful, especially for the end
> projects that have and end goal of a live website, So I think itd be good to
> accept the bytemark server sponsorship, just making it clear how we would
> use it, not organising the hackathon around it.

> Cheers
> Dale

> On 5 March 2012 16:07, Juozas <juo...@juokaz.com> wrote:

>> Some really good ideas here, now we should really decide something :)

>> Juozas Kaziukėnas

>> On 29/02/12 12:25, Dougal Matthews wrote:

>>>> Also +1 on achieving something, either collectively or celebrating
>>>> what individuals achieve.

>>> At DjangoCon.eu last year, every time a ticket was closed they would
>>> hit a Gong. Something along these lines could be applied to make
>>> achievements (whatever they might be).