Why freeze your a*** off in Europe when you could work from the beach? Thomas from DoYouBuzz explains the hackerbeach experience and how to work from an island.

1. Hackerbeach: working on the
beach
… during winter
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2. Thomas Belin
Front-end developer @ DoYouBuzz
The Web is more than just my job, it's my passion
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3. Hackerbeach?
Why freeze your b*** off in Europe when you
could work from the beach?
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4. Hackerbeach 2015
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5. Hackerbeach 2015
9 participants over the month:
• 4 from Germany
• 3 from France
• 1 from Czech Republic
• 1 from US
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6. Hackerbeach 2015
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7. Hackerbeach 2015
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8. Hackerbeach 2015
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9. Hackerbeach 2015
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10. Hackerbeach 2015
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11. Hackerbeach 2015
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12. Hackerbeach 2015
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13. (Travel – time off) !== vacation
Wondering how to reconcile a trip to an island
paradise and work?
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14. Here is my typical day:
• 6 am: Wake up to start work at 6:30 in the
apartment (hello dawn).
• 9 am: We go to town for breakfast.
• 9:30 am: Work from a place with WiFi.
• 12 pm: We're getting seriously hungry.
• 1 pm: Time to shift the workplace.
• 2 pm: Time for a little swim/ dive/ hike or walk.
• 6 pm: Back to work, free from mosquitoes
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15. Except that…
I did that within barely 3 days in the whole 3
weeks!
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16. In the real world
• 6 am: wake up✓
• 9 am: work| breakfast | walk | diving |
swimming
• 10 am: work| walk | diving | swimming
• 11 am: work| walk | diving | swimming
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17. There were no two days the
same
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18. We worked anywhere, anytime
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19. The Split-Shift Worker’s Guide
• Overcome any guilt
• Do away with unnecessary work phases;
• Do not do away with a productive work phase.
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20. The greatest advantage of
Hackerbeach:
The guys are hard workers!
... And they don't take any more vacation than
you.
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21. Synch with the “freezedbutt”
team
Our tools:
• Jira (detailed tickets + comments)
• HipChat
• Bitbucket (Pull Requests, commentaires par lignes)
• (yes we are Atlassian Fan Boys here DoYouBuzz, so
what?)
• Sqwiggle (just to infuriate colleagues)
• Google Hangouts (when this shit is getting serious)
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22. Synch with the “freezedbutt”
team
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23. Synch with the “freezedbutt”
team
Problems encountered:
• the obstructing situations
• getting people to understand the written
word.
• lack of context | oral vs chat discussion.
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24. Summary
The + :
• full of beautiful encounters
• have the feeling of being on vacation while still
working
• avoid routine
The - :
• not easy to synch with the team
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25. Hackerbeach 2015
See you on the beach in
January 2016 :)
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