This document outlines 7 lessons from AppsForGhent over 7 years. The lessons include the importance of open USB standards and crowdsourcing ideas, focusing on process over products, reusing data between hackathons, thinking locally but coding globally, and providing links to resources for open data and the AppsForGhent initiative in Ghent.

1. AppsForGhent
7 years
7 lessons
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2. LESSON 1
USB and the wisdom of the crowd

3. Lesson 2
You are not the most creative person in the room

4. Lesson 3
Don’t spend money

5. Lesson 4
process over product

6. http://blog.zog.org/2016/12/prutsen-met-data.html
Lesson 5
Data gets re-used in between hackatons

7. Lesson 6
Toiletfinders are ok

8. Lesson 7
Think local. Code global.

9. COMMERCIAL BREAK

10. 18 MAART

11. http://data.stad.gent
http://appsforghent.be