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Innovating with
hackdays.
Christian Heilmann
ITV 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 detection




https://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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