| Six hour sprint Part of Saturday House 2008/3/1 What is it? Create your dream project Simple things Origin Brian Dorsey (noonhat.com) Seattle Tech Startup Email list SaturdayHouse.org Tagmindr.com reminder system on top of del.icio.us Gamewrangle A game sharing system Jabber as a method for sharing PoorMikes An almanac for the best time to do things SixHourStartup.com * Ever Second Saturday in Seattle * Saturdayhouse.org **You have to have it repeat on a regular basis if you are going to build community. Weekly seems to be best. biweekly for heavier projects. ** now has a network list of people he will hire when he starts a company How * Planning * Event Management * Leaders * Fail Early, Fail Often, Have Fun ** Be very clear on leadership up front. StartupWeekend.com Solid Technical Plan Planning technical, This happens before the 6hr event. A couple or 3 people meet and draw up < 2 pages All interfaces defined, platforms, deliverables trim, trim, trim ** Expose it to the SaturdayHouse group (via email) wiki might be better. What are the different groups? What are they working on? Event management * An Army runs on its stomach - no beer * Time Management - A really strong personality to push things along. * Small groups loosely joined ** Averaging 20-25 programmers ** pairing up programmers Leaders * Technical Leader ** solid skills in the toolkit * TimeKeeper/Zoo Wrangler ** Keeps the groups on track. ** Makes sure everyone is communicating ** w/o defined leaders it falls apart Fail Early, Fail Often, Have Fun Why do it? * Fame * Equity * License ** BSD, Gnu, Commercial * Community Building Promises * name is on the project * name on the press release * If you want to keep working on it you can. * Projects are released as BSD/Open source People find thier next job thru the experience Post Project * Small group continues project * Email communication * Lather , Rinse, Repeat Weaknesses * business Development But prob not as part of the 6 hour process. Throw it up and see what sticks. Then do business work around the ones that get hits. Summary * Build a solid 2 page plan ** All interfaces defined * Invite your community * Throw a party ** Small Flexible Teams ** watch the clock Pre-planning meeting to build the project definition What are all the ways that we could fail come up with plans to address them. http://www.sixhourstartup.org http://www.saturdayhouse.org |
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