Re: [Libreplanet-us-wa] Thx for a great meetup.

[Donald Robertson]

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On 12/25/2015 08:54 AM, Jon Erlichman wrote:
> I'm not sure how hackathons could possibly be for users. I'd like
> to hear this explanation. I've been trying to get activists to come
> to this meetup for a while and all I keep hearing is, "oh but I'm
> not technical." I tell them it's an activist meetup--I would hate
> to try bringing in serious activists only to drive them away with
> any kind of coding, etc.

We recently supported a hackathon run by EFF that was geared towards
creating materials and resources for the ongoing fight against
international agreements like TPP. I think that's a good model for
creating a hackathon geared towards non-devs. Artists can work on
graphics, writers can put together written materials, devs can work on
technical infrastructure to share the works, etc.

A few years back we did a booksprint at Libreplanet where over the
course of the conference we wrote and edited an introduction to the
commandline. You could call that or any event where people come
together to work on a project or set of projects a hackathon as well;
it's just terminology really.

Which reminds me, are any of you guys coming to Libreplanet this year?
<https://libreplanet.org/2016/>. I'll of course be going.

But yeah, there are ways to make hackathons work for everyone, not
just developers. I'm pretty keen on this issue as well, as although I
work at the FSF, I'm not a technical person.
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Donald R. Robertson, III, J.D.
Copyright & Licensing Associate
Free Software Foundation
51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor
Boston, MA 02110
Phone +1-617-542-5942
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