week-1-explore.md

Week 1: Explore

The goal of this week is to gather as much information you can; about your team members, project, the way you will work together, and what osoc is about. Let's roll!

Day 1: Welcome (to the Madness 😏)

09:00 [all teams] Introduction

Welcome to open summer of code! You'll get an introduction about what osoc is about, what Open Knowledge Belgium is, how we work (code of conduct & how we work), what our 4 weeks will be about and what you'll be ✨delivering ✨.

10:00 [team only breakout] Get to know your team & your project

Who’s who & what do you do?

• Icebreaker; get to know each other!
• Share your skills, talents hobbies, …
• Tell us what you can help other people with!

What are we going to do?

• Study the briefing – You can find the briefing in your project site!
• Define the goal
• Summarise project (± 200 characters) and put it in this excel sheet https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1DeD9CD7lxpku2ijj-MCJNNNCVGIMpjc3hRFm3IBignQ/edit?usp=sharing.
• Compose list of questions for partner/client
  • You can compose it together in the folder of your team under meeting minutes

12:00 Lunch 😍

13:00 [team only breakout] Team & Pitch Prep

Prepare to introduce yourselves to the other teams!

Create short pitch (to introduce the team and project, no slides needed). You can base yourself on the project description you made.

• Decide who pitches – and add it to the sheet****
  • The sequence of pitches will be the one in the sheet.
  • The pitcher waits in the waiting room, and will be dragged into the pitching arena whenever they are up! Find out how here: https://help.osoc.be/global/pitching/hackathon-pitches
• Pitch the project
  • Partner
  • Goal
  • For whom
• Team introduction
  • Pick a team name – add it to the sheet****
  • Coaches & students

Create a crest

• Create a crest together [Find out how]
  • Share the crest in the crests folder, name it after your project and team name, like so: team-name-crest
• Send over a picture of each team member (take a selfie with students and coaches)
  • Add it in the team picture folder (find it in your project site).
    • Create a team folder for your team team-name
    • Name each picture team-name-member-name-picture, and if it's a group pic team-name-team-picture
  • Make sure you wear your osoc shirt, and if you don't have it (yet), grab a colourful one 🌈

15:30 [all teams] Live stream team presentations

Enjoy watching the other teams!

17:00 have a nice day 🥳

Day 2

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Day 3

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Day 4

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