Startup Weekend a

[Jonny Li - Tokyo]

Hi everyone at Hacker Space Tokyo

My name is Jonny Li and I organize the Startup Weekend events in
Japan. I tried to sell the idea to Akiba and ended up sounding way
too corporate @_@

I don't know if this will appeal to the die hard hackers amongst you,
but I wanted to share this event with you in case on or two of you
would like to join!

The Blurb:
Startup Weekends are weekend-long, hands-on experiences where
entrepreneurs and aspiring entrepreneurs can find out if startup ideas
are viable.  On average, half of Startup Weekend’s attendees have
technical backgrounds, the other half have business backgrounds.

Beginning with open mic pitches on Friday, attendees bring their best
ideas and inspire others to join their team. Over Saturday and Sunday
teams focus on customer development, validating their ideas,
practicing LEAN Startup Methodologies and building a minimal viable
product. On Sunday evening teams demo their prototypes and receive
valuable feedback from a panel of experts.

We had an event with hardware hackers in SF too and I thought it would
be awesome if we could do the same in Japan too.
http://blog.makezine.com/2012/03/07/maker-startup-weekend-at-techshop-san-francisco/

If this sounds fun, sign up at http://tokyo.startupweekend.org/ and
join us at Digital Garage on May 11th.

If you have any questions, ping me any time.

Jonny

[Akiba]

Thanks for the post, Jonny. I was laughing when you mentioned the corporate
comment I made. I merely meant that you were unconsciously slipping into
marketing and business jargon while we were talking. Well, that and you were
overly polite while Joe and I were being assholes.

Startup Weekend at a TechShop would be kinda cool, but unfortunately there
is no TechShop in Tokyo. That would mean that if you wanted to incorporate
hardware hacking at Digital Garage, we'd have to bring soldering irons, hand
tools, and test equipment as well. From the Make article, we would also
likely need to teach a workshop on working with hardware like the Arduino or
similar as well as other rapid prototyping tools like Processing or
OpenFrameworks. I think that would be interesting, but it would require
preparation and collaboration beforehand. If you want, we can talk more
about it at another meeting. I'm not against it, but I don't think you can
just throw a couple of engineers in the mix and have a hardware hackathon.
If we needed to teach as well, then we'd also need to figure out the
logistics of it like equipment, number of people, etc.

Akiba
FreakLabs Open Source Wireless
Web: http://www.freaklabs.org
Shop:http://www.freaklabsstore.com
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[Torsten Wagner]

On 3 April 2012 19:08, Akiba <ch...@freaklabs.org> wrote:
> just throw a couple of engineers in the mix

The chance is 50:50 that this turns into something ubergreat
or
into something even your worst nightmares can't scope with

A weekend for FOSS and Open-Hardware inspired engineers.... they would
need till Sunday night just to settle down on VIM vs. Emacs, AVR vs.
PIC and C/C++ vs. Lua/Python..... and in between all this business
people shouting "but on my MAC", "but on my iPhone...", "isn't there
an APP".....

Sounds indeed interesting!!

;)

[Taylan Ayken]

PIC with C. Also VIM. And Ubuntu.

But I'm not against AVR, or Shell scripts. As long as we stick with C and VIM and don't dive into realms of assembly, I had my fair share of hair pulling experience, thank you.

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[Akiba]

No, we would enforce pico, avr, and C. Those that speak out against it will
be removed to the "special room" for "understanding".

Akiba
FreakLabs Open Source Wireless
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[Usmar A Padow]

Jonny, how do I join the startup weekend thing?

[Torsten Wagner]

Wuhajahaha
I give you C ok
I might oversee that Ubuntu glitch..
But I definitely can't agree on VIM..
Oh mighty Emacs please bless this poor soul...

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[Torsten Wagner]

Nenene.... Due to heavy  proprietary misuse on your side you are not allow to vote... go and hack some more Excel sheets with VB for application... troll
;)

[Richard Frankum]

I'm not Jonny, but like he said, go to  http://tokyo.startupweekend.org/  and click "register."

--Richard Frankum