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  • New #Hackathon Patterns That Don’t Subsequently Disrupt Your Entire Life ⚙ Steven Melendez
    http://www.fastcolabs.com/3028552/new-hackathon-patterns-that-dont-subsequently-disrupt-your-entire-life

    “If you do it every month, you’re going to become fluent in this process, and when you have a big idea you’re going to be able to execute on it and sort of know the pitfalls of creating a minimal viable product and turning it into something bigger,” says Marmor.
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    “We create this kind of alternate social graph,” says Keyani, forming ties that help different departments work together even after the hackathon is done. “The social connections there are insanely valuable.”
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    You become a salesperson by the end of the day,” she says. “It’s an amazing transformation that you can go through in 24 hours.”

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    “It was really about understanding the lack of space for people to learn,” says Olukemi, explaining that when Tribeca Hacks launched in 2012, filmmakers didn’t have a place to learn to work with technical people to develop new kinds of content.

    (full truc : j’étais dans la même team que @smelendez dans le hackathon du cern)