Episode 027: Hackathons and Flirting with Failure with Rachel Katz




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Summary: <p style="text-align: center;"><b>Panelists: </b></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://twitter.com/geeksam"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Sam Livingston-Gray</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> | </span><a href="https://twitter.com/ianthro"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Astrid Countee</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> | </span><a href="https://twitter.com/ReinH"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Rein Henrichs</span></a></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><b>Guest Starring:</b></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Rachel Katz: </span><a href="https://twitter.com/hazeltrack"><span style="font-weight: 400;">@hazeltrack</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> | </span><a href="http://angelhack.com/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">AngelHack</span></a></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><b>Show Notes:</b></p> <p><b>00:16 </b><span style="font-weight: 400;">– Welcome to “Plotting the Rebellion” …we mean, “Greater Than Code!”</span></p> <p><b>01:39</b><span style="font-weight: 400;"> – Origin Story and Superpowers</span></p> <p><b>03:05</b><span style="font-weight: 400;"> – Getting Hooked on Hackathons</span></p> <p><b>04:42 </b><span style="font-weight: 400;">– Corporate Hackathons; Making Hackathons Accessible and Inclusive</span></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.greaterthancode.com/2017/01/11/episode-015-zuri-hunter/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Greater Than Code Episode 015: Zuri Hunter as Queen of Hackathons</span></a></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://datahack4fi.org/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">DataHack4FI</span></a></p> <p><b>09:38 </b><span style="font-weight: 400;">– Organizing Hackathons</span></p> <p><b>12:21 </b><span style="font-weight: 400;">– Non-programmers and Hackathons; Bringing in Diverse Perspectives</span></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Some people, when confronted with a problem, think ‘I know, I’ll use regular expressions.’ Now they have two problems.” ~Jamie Zawinski</span></i></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.codedoc.co/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Code: Debugging the Gender Gap</span></a></p> <p><b>22:46 </b><span style="font-weight: 400;">– Building Things for Others, Leadership Roles, Group Dynamics, and Men vs Women</span></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://info.thoughtworks.com/ctrl-alt-delete.html"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Ctrl Alt Delete Hate Hackathon</span></a></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://ladyproblemshackathon.com/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Lady Problems Hackathon</span></a></p> <p><b>35:28 </b><span style="font-weight: 400;">– Overnight Hackathons vs Non-Overnight Hackathons</span></p> <p><b>36:38 </b><span style="font-weight: 400;">– The Value of Celebrating Glorious Failure and Responding to Stress and Pressure</span></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.ted.com/talks/benjamin_zander_on_music_and_passion"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Benjamin Zander: The transformative power of classical music</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> [TED Talk] </span></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><b>Reflections:</b></p> <p><b>Astrid: </b><span style="font-weight: 400;">Talking about hackathons is talking about all kinds of other issues.</span></p> <p><b>Sam: </b><span style="font-weight: 400;">Make room and seek out non-developers.</span></p> <p><b>Rein:</b> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8bJNw91QyyM"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Benjamen Zander: Leadership on Display</span></a></p> <p><b>Rachel:</b><span style="font-weight: 400;"> Show up, contribute, and listen.</span></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><b>Please leave us a review on iTunes!</b></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><strong>Transcript:</strong></p> <p class="p1"><span class="s1"><b>ASTRID:<span class="Apple-converted-space">  </span></b>Welcome everyone to Episode</span></p>