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Innovating with hackdays. Christian HeilmannITV Innovation Luncheon
What makes you happy?
What makes you happy?
• Delivering something
• Getting recognition for your work
• Solving problems
• Learning something new
• Finding ways to improve things
This is hard in our day-to-day job!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/goosmurf/3393799355/
This is hard in our day-to-day job!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/twicepix/518133135/
Leaving our comfort zone.
Hackdays work!
• Take 24 hours to build something new
• Disregard all the protocols you have in delivery
• Collaborate with people you haven’t worked with
• Deliver a working prototype and explain what you want to achieve with it
• Prepare a damn good 60 second pitch
Why take part?
Hackdays are for you!
• Show off what you are interested in - no matter how geeky
• Learn something new - is there a technology you always wanted to play with?
• Get out of your shell - partner with people with complimentary skills and give a great pitch.
• Release something on your terms and without waiting!
• Show that if your manager is not breathing down your neck you can release awesome in no time
Scratch your own itch!
Hackday awesome can leak...
• Write a tool to make a day-to-day process more efficient
• Show that by using a certain tool or technology you can deliver something very quickly
• Make the first step to learn that skill you always wanted to have but always pushed further out
• Show that your department can innovate and deliver
• Join a community outside the company
Hackdays are about delivery...
• Don’t bother building the best thing ever
• Concentrate on one thing and deliver a working prototype
• Steal, borrow, cheat... whatever it takes, get the message across
• Start something - make the code available
• If the hack works only on your machine, also create a screencast (http://screenr.com rocks for that!)
Use whatever tool you need!
Tools to use...
• Open technologies make it easy to build prototypes (HTML, CSS, JavaScript)
• Use libraries (jQuery, Google Visualisation libraries, d3.js, rafael.js...)
• Use APIs for data and conversion (programmableweb.com)
• Find APIs to do time consuming jobs for you (vid.ly for video conversion, YQL for data mashing)
Re-use and connect solutions
Prepare your delivery...
Pitching hard and fast...
• Show what your hack does
• Explain the effect this has - why is it a cool hack?
• Give ideas where this can go and how the company could benefit from it
After the hack day...
After the hack day...
• Have your hack as a package for people to show around the company (screencast, screenshots, working code, 3 sentence pitch)
• Keep hacking on it (freetime or ask your boss to get some extra time)
• Demand follow-up from your company!
My turn!
Interactive video effects?
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/demos/detail/video-effects
Scene change detection
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/demos/detail/scene-change-detection-demo
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/demos/detail/add-track
Subtitling
Facial detection / analytics
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/demos/detail/facial-recognition-and-analytics-with-html5s-video
icanhaz.com/html5multimedia
icanhaz.com/johnhtml5
popcornjs.org
http://minnesota.publicradio.org/proto/hyperAudio/
popcornjs.org/butter
Universalsubtitles.org
/whois chris
Chris Heilmann
@codepo8http://wait-till-i.comhttp://developer.mozilla.org#html5 - freenode.net#mozilla - mozilla.org