Innovating with hackdays

Innovating withhackdays.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!

http://developer.mozilla.org

Interactive video effects? https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/demos/detail/video-eﬀects

Scene change detectionhttps://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/demos/detail/scene-change-detection-demo

Subtitling https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/demos/detail/add-track

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

icanhaz.com/audiosync

icanhaz.com/audioapi

mozillalabs.com/rainbow

/whois chris Chris Heilmann @codepo8 http://wait-till-i.com http://developer.mozilla.org #html5 - freenode.net #mozilla - mozilla.org

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Innovating with hackdays

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