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Hacking Central
A "hack" is a small project that aims to solve a specific problem using computational tools.
Examples of hacks include:
- a working demo of a new or modified algorithm
- an outline of a larger project, with some key features scoped
- a new visualization of an old dataset
- a modified algorithm applied to a new dataset
- a mash-up of two pre-existing pieces of code to perform some new function
- Start with ideas that are close to home: your graduate work, a project for your company, something you have always been interested in.
- reach out to other participants: Hacking is a community activity!
- start with the simplest things first, and add complexity later
- Help your neighbor: you might be the person they need to solve their problem, and vice versa
- When discussing, pitch your explanation to the least experienced hacker in the group, and you'll end up better understanding what you're trying to do
- Who are you going to hack with? Here's the list of your fellow hackers
- What are you going to work on?
- Start pitching ideas on our #general slack channel, and then once projects materialize, we can migrate to a separate project channel
- Begin populating a geohackweek GitHub project page
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Daily scrum - a 5 minute stand-up each morning to identify issues and to tackle problems before they get too big to handle! The purpose of a scrum is to encourage collaboration between groups, to offer expertise and to ask for help if you encounter a roadblock.
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Regroup at 4:30pm for the day's wrap-up: volunteer to present what you've built, if you want, 1 minute each.
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[Breakouts] will happen during the hack sessions - these are informal discussions/tutorials that will be organized as we go, via whiteboard. Listen out for announcements about breakouts during the afternoon.
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In the final wrap-up on Friday, everyone presents. This means you will need to have whatever you want to show checked in to GitHub or posted to a shared Google drive! And if you just want to say what you got out of the week, that's cool too. Note that Friday's wrap-up is a celebration :-)