Countless hackathons are full of good people being encouraged to simulate Silicon Valley greed instead of hacking for good.
When hacks-for-good do collect nonprofit needs, these are often dropped, and rarely promoted, beyond that hackathon. We want to create (find?) and encourage data standards for hackathon-ready projects-for-good. This weekend, we will:
- Review all the do-good hacks and lists of projects needing volunteers already out there.
- Interview people from hacks-for-good to see what needs to happen for projects to work well. [Possibly example: maybe all the best nonprofit projects need a nonprofit staff member ready to be called on Saturday morning if a team takes the project.]
- Work out a taxonomy, and guidelines.
- Share that taxonomy, write some blogs, and make it possible for integrators* to grab the various non-profit projects from around the web and share them in one integrated list at hackathons.
- Also seeking hackathon regulars who want to push do-good and open-source values into hackathons that often by default worship Silicon Valley venture capital 10x models.
* A couple of us want to do the integration step at a future event.
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