rachel@wearecaper.com

Rachel Coldicutt

@rachelcoldicutt

Who Was Involved?

who was involved?

who was involved?

• 69 developers• 8 speakers• 12 cultural organisations• 1 software company• 3 media organisations • 2 funding bodies• 80 people who attended the talks

what else?

• 15 giant bean bags• 85 pizzas• 11 crates of beer• 100 goodie bags • 40 4-bar plug extensions • 30 ethernet cables

Why Culture Hack Day?

other people are doing it better

Matthew Somervillewww.dracos.co.uk

showing not telling

• Don’t write a business case, make a proof of concept

• Work like a creative business not a paper-bound bureaucracy

• Iterate quickly to get something right

collaborative, interdisciplinary working

• Exposure to new expertise, new ways of thinking

• Shared skills, shared resources, shared aims

• Move more quickly together

What Were the Benefits?

expertise

• 2,484 hours of developer time• Talent attracts talent • Making new relationships with people

who are interested• Skills exchange with the creative and

software industries

Inspiration

Creativity

Excitement

the open-data debate

What’s Next?

Culture Hack Wales?

Culture Hack North?

Other Kinds of Hacking

Ideas Hacks

Hardware Hacks

Games Hacks

Thank You

rachel@wearecaper.com

Rachel Coldicutt

@rachelcoldicutt

www.culturehackday.org.uk