X-Git-Url: https://sipb.mit.edu/gitweb.cgi/wiki.git/blobdiff_plain/74dce1fee13405a8f5a4c7e8d439063dc1dec254..77860811eb8b855c5a915cef4b8366ca8d83a4f1:/runninghackathons.mdwn diff --git a/runninghackathons.mdwn b/runninghackathons.mdwn index a6cb1ed..2666fe0 100644 --- a/runninghackathons.mdwn +++ b/runninghackathons.mdwn @@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ Announce the hackathon at the SIPB meetings coming up to it. Send out an email to sipb-announce@mit.edu, mentioning date, time, place, name, etc. Sound excited and enthusiastic. Add a "tl;dr" for -lazy people. +lazy people. They traditionally start 1pm and go until 11pm or so. Any earlier and people don't wake up early enough and the office is lonely. Create a Facebook event. You probably want to be an administrator of the SIPB Facebook group for this. @@ -28,7 +28,8 @@ Send a reminder email the day before. Expenses: ========= -SIPB allocates $150 to a hackathon. Most of this should be used on +SIPB allocates $150 to a hackathon (assuming approval of the vice-chair). +Most of this should be used on food (see below). If you have extra money, you can be creative. For Hackasaurus Rex and Velocihacker, we purchased prizes off of ThinkGeek and raffled them off on the hour. It was reasonably popular. @@ -113,7 +114,9 @@ Note that the wiki has no "create page" button, and there is no "edit" button on pages that don't exist. To create a new page, go directly to - https://sipb.mit.edu:444/ikiwiki.cgi?do=edit&page= + http://sipb.mit.edu/ + +and click on the question mark. To add a redirect on a page, the wiki code you want is @@ -123,7 +126,7 @@ Zephyr: ------- Encourage discussion on zephyr, either on -c sipb or --c . +-c $HACKATHON_NAME. Don't spend a bunch of time trying to get people set up on zephyr. Consider asking Matt Goldstien (austein) to set up a gateway from a zephyr class (not -c sipb) to an AIM gateway. Social stuff: