Title: Ethereum_Magicians_Remote_Hackathon_
Category: Magicians

Author: ChainSafe
Date: 2018-10-02T22:27:42.700Z

Hello Magicians!
After talking to a few people about it, I would like to start a remote hackathon with the ethereum magicians. This will be a good opportunity for a longer hacking period, allowing for EIPs and ethereum long term issues to be the focus. Our friends at Colony have already had a great remote hackathon and to start I have forked their repo and began filling in the gaps.
The reason I bring this up specifically before the Council of Prague is to allow for us to have the opportunity to invite people to join the hackathon during Prague Blockchain Week. To start it would be great if people indicate their interest in contributing to the larger organization of the hackathon. After we have a better idea of who wants to organize the hackathon, it would be great to plan a call for sometime next week. For now there are no concrete dates regarding anything.
Thanks!

Author: chisel
Date: 2018-10-03T00:00:46.767Z

I’d be happy to help organize, and join a call next week to that end

Author: ChainSafe
Date: 2018-10-03T14:19:49.555Z

Awesome thanks @chisel!

Author: boris
Date: 2018-10-04T22:20:37.364Z

The Status Hackathon is, I think, also set up for remote? Not sure. But, maybe you want to think of it as a “perma hackathon”? Like, how do we seed local regions to work together, and how do we get more and better open source contributions and collaborations?
That’s all I got. No bandwidth for anything else. Go go go @ChainSafe

Author: ChainSafe
Date: 2018-10-05T18:13:33.184Z

Thats awesome, it would be great to have a bunch of parallel meetups happening to get people hacking!

Author: deltajuliet
Date: 2018-10-10T14:30:21.756Z

I don’t know how much bandwidth I’ll have but I’m happy to join the call and contribute where I can. We’ll be in Prague for DevCon as well, and organizing some local things there!

Author: ChainSafe
Date: 2018-10-10T18:55:28.203Z

Thanks for the feedback everyone! I apologize over the lack of communication, SF blockchain week has been extremely busy. If everyone could please fill out this poll so we can get things going next week. I am suggesting that the time is around 12pm EST to try and accommodate as many people as possible. If anyone wants to suggest another time please do.




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Author: chrishobcroft
Date: 2018-10-29T16:14:02.359Z

Here are notes from the breakout session about organising a Remote Hackathon as part of the Ethereum Magicians:
Please feel free to add / amend as appropriate in the case that I missed something, or misrepresented.
https://hackmd.io/8aSF4t87QqCPu6P5wiOIbA

Author: ChainSafe
Date: 2018-10-29T21:42:24.223Z

Thank you so much for taking these notes Chris, extremely excited to get a few of the action items complete and get things going

Author: chrishobcroft
Date: 2018-10-30T17:57:12.805Z

Livepeer are having a “Virtual Hackathon” on 14th
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Apologies for poor quality photo

Author: ChainSafe
Date: 2018-11-07T14:00:06.508Z

Hey folks!
I have attempted to summarize @chrishobcroft’s notes from our ring into a template/proposal for how a remoteHackathon could work.
Intro
The aim is to create a tangible template that reinvigorates our local communities - as some kind of valuable output of tangible energy back into our own local communities.
Proposal
As a starting point, I would like to expand on the previously stated 2 month hackathon timeline from a high level.

Split into 2 halves, the hackathon can begin with 1 month dedicated to local meetups.


The meetup period should be expected to have a minimum of two educational meetups dedicated to onboarding new developers, designers, researchers, etc…
Meetups should also live stream these events to allow for remote participants to learn as well.
By the end of the first meetup, participants should begin engaging in the wider remoteHackathon community, proposing hackathon project ideas that may be collaborated on by members of different communities.
The intention is for these meetups to cater to the needs of local communities while engaging in the wider Ethereum ecosystem for support during the hackathon. Building relationships that could last a lifetime.


Hackathon


The hackathon period should have a minimum of two hacking sessions, where hackers and mentors can come together to solve problems.
Hackers and mentors should be continuing the conversation online throughout the hackathon at ethereum-magicians.org allowing everyone to learn together from the problems being encountered.
A decentralized group of mentors will be available to answer these questions.

Conclusion
The intention for this is to create a template for a series of events that empower local communities to take part in, while allowing for wider Ethereum support. At the moment we have a repo forked from Colony (https://github.com/ChainSafe/remoteHackathon), this is by no means done, it is just a template to get us started. I will transfer it to the FEM github when necessary. Please join the conversation by adding to the proposal or making your own. We need people to turn intention into action by pledging to bringing this initiative to your local community.
Notes from the Council of Prague ring that might be relevant
"Interest in how to connect into localized creative communities, outside the Blockchain space, which already have space / funding / shared community values - and seek to support these communities (example in Reno, Berlin).
Aim to balance the focus of bringing a “hackathon” ethos to building (fun, experimental), with real-life use-cases to support communities.
Important to create some kind of vision, but also leave space for less “planned” activities or objectives - i.e. accepting that we don’t know all the answers yet.
Spreading the teaching of the information about what tools exist in our community, and empower / enable others to build.
In order to convince someone to go to a localised hackathon, there needs to be some kind of incentive. However, connection to e.g. ETH Magicians, can potentially help to bring some “big speakers” to attract hackers. The travel / accommodation costs for “big speakers” might end up being the only funding needed.
Another thing to draw in hackers is to encourage participation from projects already building in this space, in order to provide skilled resources to help hackers when they get stuck etc."
Thanks you everyone for your interest in this! As the last action item states “Take this idea back to your communities - IT’S UP TO YOU TO START TO BUILD THE MOVEMENT”

Author: ChainSafe
Date: 2018-11-19T15:13:27.129Z

We have had a lot of people say they want to help bring Ethereum to local communities and create frameworks for people to feel comfortable to start a meetup or another type of event. However here we have a potentially easy way to achieve this goal together and no one seems interested.
Definitely disappointed with the noise on twitter and the lack of action here.

Author: jpitts
Date: 2018-11-22T08:22:56.441Z

I’m interested in organizing something in the Bay Area, but I won’t be able to do this until January.
What I’d like to do is something relating to “Ethereum financial and operational primitives”. Mainly these would be small-scale and rough components to be strung together into workflows. These workflows would be strongly associated with practices for small organizations to safely receive, manage, account for, and disburse their Ether, DAI, and other crypto resources.

Author: ChainSafe
Date: 2018-11-22T18:01:20.077Z

That’s awesome do you think you could maybe record it? It would be great to have a bunch of videos that we could use as resources for people joining the community.

Author: jpitts
Date: 2018-11-29T06:38:01.767Z

That is a good idea, perhaps as things clear up I will carve out an hour to do it & upload…

Author: gichiba
Date: 2019-01-07T12:27:49.835Z

Hi there!
I’m Griffin, and I organized the Colony Hackathon… I realize I’m super late to the game here but I’d be definitely interested in helping to organize more local, remote, and hybrid hackathons this year!
–Griffin

Author: codydjango
Date: 2019-01-08T00:35:13.900Z

I’m also interested in helping organize! I have time and energy

Author: ChainSafe
Date: 2019-01-08T03:14:20.993Z

Hey! That’s awesome 
Should we arrange a call?

Author: gichiba
Date: 2019-01-08T16:20:49.345Z

Sure; I’ll also be at ETHDenver next month… but a call might be good to just generally sync up on what’s possible and how it can come together.

Author: ChainSafe
Date: 2019-01-08T18:07:23.010Z

I will be there as well! @codydjango how about you?

Author: codydjango
Date: 2019-01-08T23:22:00.972Z

No plans to leave Vancouver, for the near future

Author: ChainSafe
Date: 2019-01-09T17:06:29.024Z

So should we plan for a call sometime next week @codydjango @gichiba?

Author: codydjango
Date: 2019-01-10T05:21:07.154Z

Sounds good to me. My schedule is very flexible at the moment, so feel free to book something at your leisure

Author: gichiba
Date: 2019-01-10T09:59:20.129Z

Yeah, that sounds good to me! Currently based in London, so the timezone shift entails morning West Coast, afternoon Europe

Author: ChainSafe
Date: 2019-01-10T16:23:42.938Z

@codydjango @gichiba how about Monday at 2 EST?

Author: codydjango
Date: 2019-01-14T08:33:32.583Z

Sorry about the delay. Monday morning works, but Tuesday or Wednesday would be better fit.

Author: gichiba
Date: 2019-01-14T16:02:07.189Z

Also sorry for the (even longer) delay!
Wednesday would be much better for me.

Author: ChainSafe
Date: 2019-01-14T18:59:30.702Z

No worries! Does Wednesday at 2pm work?

Author: codydjango
Date: 2019-01-15T04:03:58.709Z

Works for me. I’ll just need to know where to sign on

Author: ChainSafe
Date: 2019-01-15T04:13:38.440Z

Sorry can we do 3pm? Maybe we can start a telegram or riot group to coordinate? I am @aidanh.

Author: codydjango
Date: 2019-01-15T04:26:16.807Z

ChainSafe:

aidanh


3’s good, and telegram works. I’m codydjango.

Author: gichiba
Date: 2019-01-15T13:50:03.859Z

Yeah, I don’t have ETHMagicians notifications so prolly better to coordinate there! I’m @gichiba on telegram
Also 3pm tomorrow works for me!

Author: ChainSafe
Date: 2019-01-15T17:17:45.731Z

having trouble finding you @codydjango, do you mind adding both of us?

Author: gichiba
Date: 2019-01-16T18:38:31.423Z

Hmmm we seem to have missed the mark on this one… I’m unfortunately not going to be free in a EST-friendly time until early next week. Maybe it’d be better to brainstorm a bit more asynchronously and then call?

Author: codydjango
Date: 2019-01-16T19:32:15.144Z

I’ve added you both in a telegram group. No worries @gichiba, join in when you can