October 14, 2009 at 01:38MashPit in Minsk. We do projects in 48 hours
Recently, HackDay took place in St. Petersburg, the Social Innovation Camp in Bratislava , and Code Sprint's are constantly being held somewhere else. This means only one thing - the interest of progressive humanity in events devoted entirely to practice (read - creating projects and master classes), and not to theory (read - presentations) is growing by leaps and bounds.
Belarus, as usual, risked being sidelined with global trends if it weren’t for the desire of several unbiased people to conduct a small experiment with us - an event of the MashPit format during the annual Business Internet conference (but not affiliated with the conference). This decision was spontaneous, as, incidentally, was the organization of the event, which begins tomorrow! Yes Yes Yes!
Why MashPit?
This technology was invented and tested by Chris Messina and “patented” by him as a “community mark” (a term that he himself invented). That is, everyone can hold a mashpit in his city or region, and it will be completely legal. Just like the barcamps, from which, by the way, a lot is taken. This is the self-organization of participants, an informal atmosphere, the absence of pre-scheduled TK, etc. And this is actually very good, because events of this kind really activate in us those hidden reserves that usually sleep under the quiet buzzing of office computers. If you can, then do it, if not, just leave or become a spectator.
Now we know for sure - we will work with Google Maps and a map of Minsk (which only recently began to appear on Maps). What we will display on it, which technologies to use is still unknown. It is also not clear whether we will have one big team or if several groups will arrange a real competition.
The event is designed both for experienced developers who can show their talents or learn new things, as well as amateurs - because we still have a lot of work to do to put the whole country on Google Maps. So why not get started right now?
We have about 48 hours to come up with and implement a real Internet project that would be useful not only for us. And if there is time and effort - why not make a few of them?
It is curious that, like any event that does not fit into some framework in Belarus (I have not seen them, but I feel that they are), our absolutely volunteer initiative caused a lot of negative emotions and active trolling on Twitter. If someone explains to me what is wrong in Belarus and how to fix this mentality, characterized by an abominable desire to spoil beer where you least expect
it, I’ll put a beer :) So people, if you live in Minsk and want to know what it will be, and even better - they are ready to participate, propose their ideas and implement them, register on the site, contact us by any means. After all, only together we will make MashPit a successful project, or maybe the first in a series of similar ones.
And who knows - maybe we can change something ...
Our website:http://mashpit.newmedia.by , hash tag on Twitter and blogs - #mashby
Belarus, as usual, risked being sidelined with global trends if it weren’t for the desire of several unbiased people to conduct a small experiment with us - an event of the MashPit format during the annual Business Internet conference (but not affiliated with the conference). This decision was spontaneous, as, incidentally, was the organization of the event, which begins tomorrow! Yes Yes Yes!
Why MashPit?
This technology was invented and tested by Chris Messina and “patented” by him as a “community mark” (a term that he himself invented). That is, everyone can hold a mashpit in his city or region, and it will be completely legal. Just like the barcamps, from which, by the way, a lot is taken. This is the self-organization of participants, an informal atmosphere, the absence of pre-scheduled TK, etc. And this is actually very good, because events of this kind really activate in us those hidden reserves that usually sleep under the quiet buzzing of office computers. If you can, then do it, if not, just leave or become a spectator.
Now we know for sure - we will work with Google Maps and a map of Minsk (which only recently began to appear on Maps). What we will display on it, which technologies to use is still unknown. It is also not clear whether we will have one big team or if several groups will arrange a real competition.
The event is designed both for experienced developers who can show their talents or learn new things, as well as amateurs - because we still have a lot of work to do to put the whole country on Google Maps. So why not get started right now?
We have about 48 hours to come up with and implement a real Internet project that would be useful not only for us. And if there is time and effort - why not make a few of them?
It is curious that, like any event that does not fit into some framework in Belarus (I have not seen them, but I feel that they are), our absolutely volunteer initiative caused a lot of negative emotions and active trolling on Twitter. If someone explains to me what is wrong in Belarus and how to fix this mentality, characterized by an abominable desire to spoil beer where you least expect
it, I’ll put a beer :) So people, if you live in Minsk and want to know what it will be, and even better - they are ready to participate, propose their ideas and implement them, register on the site, contact us by any means. After all, only together we will make MashPit a successful project, or maybe the first in a series of similar ones.
And who knows - maybe we can change something ...
Our website:http://mashpit.newmedia.by , hash tag on Twitter and blogs - #mashby