Developer-User Hackathons/Meetings/Potlucks

Basics

• An odd hybrid of events
• Is a potential solution to the Developer-User Hackathons/Meetings/Potlucks
• Make it "blend in" with local culture Non Maipulative Marketing / Tone Shifting / User Analysis and all that

Example

• Have one of these "meet and greets" / potlucks at some community center
  • ie Cafe [Church]] Coffe Shop Diner Public Library Mosque [[Restraunt] School Temple YMCA (any NON TOXIC + acessible (ie not westburo baptist church or a hip club...) ) Cummunity Center/Hub
• Shoot the Shit on the chosen "topic"
• The target group should be SME's of sorts, but working class etc, not enginner/scientist types (or vice versa based off ot the group organizign this)
• The goal is Brutal Honesty and Personal Product Use Data in an approachable, ethical manner
• ie both "parties" "leave happy"
• Can also include/be phase (or stage) 1 of a Design Sprint Hackathon or Extreme Build
• A sort of "bring back the Barn Raising (or the polarizing (albeif witty) Make Barn Raising Great Again or Make Fixing Shit Great Again etc as a down to earth parod and marketable "pun" shirt/hat
  • could also be a Laptop Sticker Hardhat Sticker or Welder Sticker etc common as a community symbol
  • Make one with a cnc drag knife + inkjet cnc? (or laser diode as paper is thin)
  • User:Eric will develop this + Open Source (Hardware AND Software) Memes and Jokes in the next rant/phase? (y/n) for pr + dev communication feedback