Take a look at this hack-fest example and tell me it doesn’t sound really cool. I have tried to sell the hack-fest idea to a couple of people, in a couple of different settings, with no success so far. Pick a problem, either outward facing — like environmental waste – or inward facing — like student mobile apps. Get some smart people together for a fixed period of time and turn ‘em loose. Let’s do it! What needs fixing around here?
Hacking as a Way of Knowing | NiCHE
In the spring of 2009, Edward Jones-Imhotep and I invited a few dozen people to a three-day, hands-on hacking workshop to explore the problem of environmental waste….If you would like to do something like this yourself, or if you’d like to arrange a similar workshop with your friends, here are the steps to take…
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