4. Housekeeping
● We are in building 53 (Mountbatten)
● Read through the visitor leaflets
● Need to swipe to get out
● Vacate the building between 23:00-08:00
DO NOT USE THE EMERGENCY
EXIT BUTTON
● Emergency number: 3311
We are guests, behave accordingly!
6. Social Media
● We are part of a global event and
globally monitored !
● 30 locations, +3000 participants
● Join in cross location hangouts
7. Agenda
09:00 - Welcome & problem statement presentations
10:00 - Form groups and hackathon begins
12:00 - Sandwiches & talks
17:30 - Team status reports
18:00 - Pizza
23:00 - Everybody out
08:00 - Doors open
09:00 - Breakfast
10:00 - Team status reports
12:00 - Pizza
15:00 - Hackathon ends & judging begins
17:00 - Judging completed & prizes awarded
8. Social Media
● Dedicated UStream channel
○ http://www.ustream.tv/channel/rhoksoton
● Everybody encouraged to
■ tweet using #rhoksoton
■ make videos
■ share pictures
■ give interviews
■ ...
● Let me (Dirk / @elazungu) know !
○ Dedicated youtube/flikr channels
9. Problems
● Local problems
○ 5-10min pitches
○ on-site help and feedback
● Global problems
○ Well vetted problems
○ Coordinate across locations (irc / hackpad)
● Important
○ Decide on a team name + members
○ Have Dirk create a Github repo under the
RHoKSoton organization
○ Ensure final solutions are added to rhok.org
12. Global problems
● No more Tro-Tro-uble Public Transportation App
(Ghana)
● Granular Health Map
● ACCOUNTability
● Language Lesson Generator
● Sheltr (mapping homelessness)
● Open Defecation Reporting
● Efficient Septage Collection Systems
● Crap Calculation
● Where2Trash
● Real Time Info for Bushfire planning
● ...
http://www.rhok.org/featured-problems-december-2012
16. Presentation prep
● Create 15 min presentation
○ upload on slideshare under rhoksoton
account
● Create 1 min video & upload to
rhoksoton youtube channel
● Create a solution page on the rhok site
○ attach problem, github, slideshare, ...
○ attach to "Southampton, UK"
● Fill out shared google doc
○ see Dirk
17. Congrats!
● Lots of hard work!
● But....
○ This was the easy part
○ Tiny part of the puzzle
○ Much harder is to keep going
● You already made it to the 10%
● Now be the 3%