Do you want your collaborative idea to make it to the hack day?
Some ideas are so good that they simply need to be realised. This is where the hackday comes in: at the end of the Collaborative Ideas session, you can state whether your idea should be pitched during the hackday.
If you want your idea to be submitted to the hackday, someone in your group must nominate themselves as the hackday pitch leader (the person who will pitch the idea before the start of the hack day in an attempt to attract a team to work on the idea). The hackday leader must put their name and email address in the appropriate fields of the Collaborative Ideas form (see below for detail). If these fields are left blank, the idea will not be carried through to the hack day.
Which group am I in?
First of all, find out which group you are in, and which room you will be using:
- Session 1 Collaborative Ideas Groups (25 March at 14.10-15.10)
- Session 2 Collaborative Ideas Groups (26 March at 11.30-12.30)
What to do at the Collaborative Ideas session
Once you arrive at your room:
- Introduce yourselves!
- Select a Chair and a Scribe
- Take it in turns to introduce something about your work that is important to you. It can be anything: a new project you want to get started, a policy that you want to see adopted, the skeleton of a concept that you want flesh out, a tool that you want built, a problem that you face - anything! If it's on your mind and you think discussing it with a group of leading researchers and software developers could help, then this is the place to discuss it.
- Make a decision about which idea is most likely to be taken forward. Selecting only one idea can be very difficult! (Even if your idea isn't taken forward during the session, you can submit it yourself later during the workshop).
- Help the scribe complete the Collaborative Ideas form.
Notes for the Scribe
The scribe should record some very brief notes about the group's idea in the Collaborative Ideas form. It should take about ten minutes to fill out the form. The information needed is:
- Title
- Context/Domain: one or two sentences that will help us understand where the idea comes from: a specific field of research, a general field of work or something wider.
- Problem: a couple of sentences that describe the problem that the idea will help solve
- Solution: a couple of sentences that describes how the idea will help solve the problem
- Diagram/illustration URL: please provide a link to a diagram or image that supports your idea. It could be something you've created yourself (paper will be available on the day, or you can create something on a computer), or it could be an existing image from the web.
- Team members: although non-mandatory, please provide the names of the people in your group. This allows us to trace the idea back to its originators (and if your team should win the prizes then we can get them to the right people).
- Hackday pitch leader: as discussed above, if you would like this idea to be taken to the hack day, please provide the name of the hackday pitch leader. It is the pitch leader's job to describe the idea during the pitching session, and try to attract people to work on the idea during the hack day.
- Pitch leader's email address: an email address for the pitch leader.
- After submitting your idea you can continue to work on it, fleshing out ideas and even starting work on the pitch for the hackday, or you can work on a second idea.
Ideas mean prizes
Not all ideas from the collaborative ideas session will go on to be used in the Hackday, but there will be a prize for the best idea regardless of whether it makes it to the hackday. All the ideas will be printed and added to a poster board. Anyone at the workshop can vote for their favourite idea.
Where do I submit, and where can I see the submissions?
- If you want to submit an idea, use the Collaborative Ideas form
- You can also view the ideas that have already been submitted [link retired]