This is my backlog of things I would like to finish before the end of September.
- Migrate todo lists from strikeapp.com & field notes (see below) ๐ธ
- โStudyโ for October 3 SATs (1 hour/errโday) ๐
- Send final copy of transit ad to client (on Wed 23) โ
- Follow up with Technical.ly on PennApps post (on Thurs 24) ๐ฒ
- Send a bunch of contacts accumulated in the past 2 months (by Fri 25) ๐
- Thank specific people (by Fri 25) ๐ธ
- Kindly respond to 80+ college emails (by Fri 25) ๐ฌ
- Embrace Pope visit instead of running away! (PS Good luck in Baltimore @iliterobotics, youโll need it! ๐)
- Show missionary group from Panama around town (on Fri 25)
- Try to bike back in time for Sunday night charity meeting (on Sun 27)
- Hoard NJ Transit tickets before 9% fare hike (by Oct 1)
- Finish Summer Wrap-Up blog post (Spoiler: I made $36 traveling the east coast this summer and couldnโt be happier) ๐
- Print biz cards ๐
- Launch creative dev agency jawn โ see below ๐ฅ
- Take on new work ๐ฑ, see new sights ๐, explore the world ๐
A semi-annual hackathon at Rutgers, October 3-4 at College Av Student Center: http://hackru.org
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Do outreach to PA/NJ high schools ๐
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Get Rutgers Admissions involved
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Confirm time for high school meetup
6pm Saturday Oct 3 ๐
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Have it listed in event schedule ๐
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Connect Rutgers Admissions with HackRU organizers (on Thurs 24)
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Confirm Rutgers Admissions attendance
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Reach out to RU & local newspapers
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Bring unicorn hoodie to HackRU, wear it ๐ด
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Bring Facebook notepads and cameras ๐
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Promote charity fundraisers โค๏ธ
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Set up 1-on-1 mentor table(s) at HackRU (aka my Code Castle) ๐ฐ
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Coordinate with HackRU admissions and organizers
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Catch 3:11 SB train from New Brunswick, swap to 3:59 at Trenton, arrive Con Center 4:54 for U30, buy weekly ๐ ๐ ๐ณ
A community resource for student-run high school hackathons in the United States ๐บ๐ธ and Canada ๐. Below is a checklist of things related to the launch of HSHackathons.com (todos before this arenโt shown.)
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Get a team together for meetings
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Discuss platform options
We chose to use GitHub pages to embrace the open source ethos and make it easier for the community to contribute. Also, Jekyll is amazing!
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Discuss information architecture with team
We agreed to use YAML. The implications means that adding an event is as simple as a pull request!
- name: "PennApps"
description: "Hosted at the nation's first university, PennApps is the original college hackathon. Come join us to learn something new, build an app, or start a company. Let's continue to make history together."
url: "http://pennapps.com/"
start: 2015-09-04
end: 2015-09-06
deadline: 2015-07-01
location: "Wells Fargo Center"
city: "Philadelphia PA"
logo: "/img/events/pennapps-15fall.png"
cover: "url(https://s3.amazonaws.com/assets.mlh.io/events/splashes/000/000/224/thumb/background.png?1436538374)"
attendees: 618
designation: collegiate
- Collect data from past HS Hackathons
- Set up a process to collect data from future HS Hackathons
- Put base content on site
- Design a site
- Come up with snazzy launch Keynote
- Launch at HackRU
- Launch site (MVP, only listing critical events)
- Start recruiting
- Migrate & revamp content from Ignition
- Take down Ignition
- Write Medium post about lessons learned from Ignition
- Set up a GH pages wiki with critical documentation
- Set up style/brand guidelines
- Acquire strategic partnerships
- Launch season mascots (and polls)
- Hire artists to draw these mascots
- Expand to EU, Mexico, Israel, etc. with local resources
- Brainstorming ๐
- Wireframing โ๏ธ
- Frameworking ๐ฒ
- Seattle 1 case study ๐บ
- Get permission to salvage canceled client project (by Mon 28) โ
- Hall study ๐ถ
- Robots case study ๐ป
- Soft (unannounced) launch of said Jawn Agency ๐ฅ
- Seattle 2 case study ๐
- Draft list of events ๐
- Community/Events section ๐
- Talks section ๐
- Bacon case study ๐
- Publicly announce launch of said Jawn Agency
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If I have extra time by the end of Septemberโฆ otherwise these things are just down the pipeline for October:
- Get up to speed on pfm ๐
- Launch charity fundraiser โค๏ธ
- Write Medium post about JS incident ๐, tech communityโs addiction to bars ๐ป and ways to be more inclusive ๐
- Post to Dribble ๐
- Candy bars mockup ๐ซ
- Draft college application essays ๐
- Revamp Closings API ๐
- Launch crowdfund for internet at home? Patreon? Nah, I should make my own moneyโฆ idk ๐ค