Things I learned at a homeless hack hackathon

Things-i-learned-hackathon

# Homeless Hack
My experience: I've never attended a hackathon before so didn't know what to expect. I liked the way a lot of time was spent introducing us to the subject matter. In our case it was homelessnes.

## Tweets
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#whatilearned #homelesshack 11 you are designing and building something with 8-10 people who never met before. Try to get everyone involved.
#whatilearned #homelesshack 10 the people doing the coding parts are under extreme pressure. Cherish them. Get them a quiet space/area.
#whatilearned #homelesshack 9 a great space to work in like @infinityworks so kindly lent us must be a real multiplier of orgs effectiveness.
#whatilearned #homelesshack 8 the systems you want to get information from are mostly offline. Integrations are hard.
#whatilearned #homelesshack 7 someone will have an awesome idea that is so simple it's got to be what you build around ...
#whatilearned #homelesshack 6 A researcher from York Uni advised us to use Google scholar. Top tip because somebody somewhere in the world ..
#whatilearned #homelesshack 6 the demo gods look most favourably upon those who encourage audience participation ...
#whatilearned #homelesshack 5 use whiteboard at the back of the room to distract audience whilst you perform a sacrifice for the demo gods.
#whatilearned #homelesshack 4 Don't sweat making it work end to end if your front end person does PHP, do the presentation layer in that ...
#whatilearned #homelesshack 3 Listen to Fred Brooks: "Build one to throw away". The hack is your chance to do that.
#whatilearned #homelesshack 2 listen to what the people who do work that beat are telling you. Ask them what they do ...
#whatilearned #homelesshack 1 you probably know nothing about homelessness because you are not working that beat day in day out.
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