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Project Guidelines
During Geohackweek we will be facilitating open hacking sessions during most of the afternoons. The purpose of these sessions is for you to gain hands-on experience in hacking on a small, well-defined geospatial problem. An ideal outcome of the projects is continued collaboration on the work after you leave geohack.
Hacking is a session of focused, highly collaborative computer programming, in which we create conditions for rapid absorption of new ideas and methods. Visit our hacking central page for more specific information on this approach.
Since hacking is by definition a collaborative process, we encourage you to form small teams (2-5 people) around a specific geospatial problem.
- Begin by communicating with other team members, via Slack or our hackpad page, about possible project ideas.
- We will provide time on Days 1 and 2 for in-person connection on project work
- Each team should have a project lead and identify one geohack organizer as data science lead
- Once you form a team, present your idea to Anthony and he will create a specific slack channel and project folder for your team on GitHub
- By 3 pm on Tuesday (Day 2), teams will be formed and we will share our project plans with each other
- Together with your team, build a 1 page project proposal on GitHub following the guidelines here.
- Work together with your team, and across teams as appropriate, during our open project sessions.
- Be prepared to regularly report your activity (successes, challenge points) across the group.
- Prepare a lightning talk presenting your work on Day 5 (Friday).
Apart from the required elements listed above, no one will be "graded" on their project work. We do not expect you to make significant contributions to data science after five days. It is far more important to us that you focus on learning collaborative methods of software development, through effective use of GitHub. Try to build a foundation that you can build on over time after our event has ended.