Comments on: Yahoo! is punk rock. http://www.brookemaury.org/2006/09/30/yahoo-is-punk-rock/ Because my wants to Tue, 24 Jan 2012 06:03:52 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Yahoo! Open Hack Day: how it all came together -- Chad Dickerson’s blog http://www.brookemaury.org/2006/09/30/yahoo-is-punk-rock/comment-page-1/#comment-1519 Yahoo! Open Hack Day: how it all came together -- Chad Dickerson’s blog Tue, 03 Oct 2006 20:54:46 +0000 http://www.brookemaury.org/2006/09/30/yahoo-is-punk-rock/#comment-1519 [...] After we got the idea rolling, I sent an email out to our internal Hack discussion mailing list (something I seeded after our first internal Hack Day in December of last year) and said, “who wants to help put together a public Hack Day?” Within a few days, I had about 80 people ready to help: engineers, product managers, business development, attorneys. . . . name a function and we had someone step forward. No coercion by management, none of the browbeating you might see in a typical corporate environment, no silly corporate brainstorming exercises, no discussion of “branding,” no PowerPoints (not one!) We had one planning meeting to kick things off (it was our first and last meeting), and pretty soon, I was standing back and watching the magic. People stepped up. We needed t-shirts, and they appeared. PR pros called BBQ vendors to arrange food. Some of the world’s foremost CSS experts stuffed welcome packets. Hard core backend engineers offered themselves up as low-level tech support for the hackers doing their demos. I talked to our totally awesome facilities team about our grass and the sprinkler system (needed to make sure the ground wasn’t too squishy for the campers). At one point when we were setting up the wifi network on Thursday, the guys needed 200 zip ties and several hundred feet of ethernet cable. I sent an email out to my list of volunteers and within the hour, it all appeared (thanks, Kent). Punk rock. [...] [...] After we got the idea rolling, I sent an email out to our internal Hack discussion mailing list (something I seeded after our first internal Hack Day in December of last year) and said, “who wants to help put together a public Hack Day?” Within a few days, I had about 80 people ready to help: engineers, product managers, business development, attorneys. . . . name a function and we had someone step forward. No coercion by management, none of the browbeating you might see in a typical corporate environment, no silly corporate brainstorming exercises, no discussion of “branding,” no PowerPoints (not one!) We had one planning meeting to kick things off (it was our first and last meeting), and pretty soon, I was standing back and watching the magic. People stepped up. We needed t-shirts, and they appeared. PR pros called BBQ vendors to arrange food. Some of the world’s foremost CSS experts stuffed welcome packets. Hard core backend engineers offered themselves up as low-level tech support for the hackers doing their demos. I talked to our totally awesome facilities team about our grass and the sprinkler system (needed to make sure the ground wasn’t too squishy for the campers). At one point when we were setting up the wifi network on Thursday, the guys needed 200 zip ties and several hundred feet of ethernet cable. I sent an email out to my list of volunteers and within the hour, it all appeared (thanks, Kent). Punk rock. [...]

]]> By: Dave http://www.brookemaury.org/2006/09/30/yahoo-is-punk-rock/comment-page-1/#comment-1487 Dave Mon, 02 Oct 2006 09:09:19 +0000 http://www.brookemaury.org/2006/09/30/yahoo-is-punk-rock/#comment-1487 Great post. LOL that's a great picture of my car "Hack Me". I didn't notice ‘Algortm’ parked next to me.. that's great. Now if I could only get 1/2 of the people who came out to HackDay to come out to burning man next year and join the camp I'm trying to start... the Black Rock City Hacker Camp (www.brchc.com) Great post. LOL that’s a great picture of my car “Hack Me”. I didn’t notice ‘Algortm’ parked next to me.. that’s great.

Now if I could only get 1/2 of the people who came out to HackDay to come out to burning man next year and join the camp I’m trying to start… the Black Rock City Hacker Camp (www.brchc.com)

]]> By: Hackday Roundup at updates @ m.blog http://www.brookemaury.org/2006/09/30/yahoo-is-punk-rock/comment-page-1/#comment-1483 Hackday Roundup at updates @ m.blog Mon, 02 Oct 2006 05:51:45 +0000 http://www.brookemaury.org/2006/09/30/yahoo-is-punk-rock/#comment-1483 [...] Hack Day was a blast. Someone called us “punk rock”, which is just about the best compliment I can think of. [...] [...] Hack Day was a blast. Someone called us “punk rock”, which is just about the best compliment I can think of. [...]

]]> By: Elatable | Bradley Horowitz » Yahoo Open Hack Day: Hell Yes! http://www.brookemaury.org/2006/09/30/yahoo-is-punk-rock/comment-page-1/#comment-1482 Elatable | Bradley Horowitz » Yahoo Open Hack Day: Hell Yes! Mon, 02 Oct 2006 05:21:35 +0000 http://www.brookemaury.org/2006/09/30/yahoo-is-punk-rock/#comment-1482 [...] The Developer Day trainings on Friday were incredible. The fact that Yahoo is offering its services (but in particular the YUI Libraries) to the world and getting our best and brightest on stage to offer their wisdom gratis is so cool. But here’s someone who said it better than I possibly could: I attended yesterday’s workshops and was really blown away. Yahoo! is the shit. Seriously, where else can you get the downlow on PHP from the guy who wrote it, sit next to the person who started Flickr as you learn how to hack the Flickr API, and get a tutorial on the Yahoo UI platform library from the people who designed them and then rock out to a private Beck concert, replete with a live puppet show? Punk. Rock. [...] [...] The Developer Day trainings on Friday were incredible. The fact that Yahoo is offering its services (but in particular the YUI Libraries) to the world and getting our best and brightest on stage to offer their wisdom gratis is so cool. But here’s someone who said it better than I possibly could: I attended yesterday’s workshops and was really blown away. Yahoo! is the shit. Seriously, where else can you get the downlow on PHP from the guy who wrote it, sit next to the person who started Flickr as you learn how to hack the Flickr API, and get a tutorial on the Yahoo UI platform library from the people who designed them and then rock out to a private Beck concert, replete with a live puppet show? Punk. Rock. [...]

]]> By: Shawn B http://www.brookemaury.org/2006/09/30/yahoo-is-punk-rock/comment-page-1/#comment-1454 Shawn B Sat, 30 Sep 2006 22:46:47 +0000 http://www.brookemaury.org/2006/09/30/yahoo-is-punk-rock/#comment-1454 I totally concur with your post - thanks for the good write-up! I totally concur with your post – thanks for the good write-up!

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