6 Feb 2012

David Albert
John Britton
Philipp Schmidt

Hackerschool

• Venue: AOL on Broadway
  • Check out Hack Manhattan
• Working on Safari books account

Hackerschool Recruiting

• Focus is to find "good" people (25 ideally, but focus on quality)
• 80 applicants
  • Made it hard
    • Big commitment
    • Not a lot of time to apply
• Process
  • Application form on hackerschool.com
  • Pick the ones we like
  • Interviews with David and Nick
• Scale up the screening
  • Have alumns screen applications

-> Hackers' Habits

• How to become a hacker: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/hacker-howto.html
• Not enough people have the hackers attitude
• How can we help more people become "hackers"
• Not clear that HS or P2PU have the expertise / bandwidth right now to tackle

-> Pre-Hackershool Challenges

• Possibility of creating a learning experience pre-hackerschool that is also a promotional device
• Example: http://p2pu.org/en/groups/programming-101/
• Promotes Hackerschool (branded challenge)
• Helps identify good participants
• Everyone learns
• Next steps:
  • John to send email to David with a short overview (background on challenges, etc.)
  • David to speak with Nick, but probably not ready to move forward with this
  • Could try this during next recruiting run

-> Hackerschool credentials

• Being accepted and finishing are great achievements
• Similar to how getting accepted to YC is an achievement
• HS not sure they want to formalize this
• Next steps:
  • Nothing / David to ponder

-> Hackerschool challenges

• HackerSchool participants to build challenges as part of their training
  • Teaching is a great way to learn, I really love this idea. Also good to build up a reputation.
  • Build an interactive tutorial.
• Next steps:
  • John (or someone else) to speak to HS participants when next in NY

-> Send beginners to p2pu, after they get up to speed send to hackerschool

• Where exactly would you send them? Webmaking 101?
  • maybe, but possibly hook them up with a mentor depending on skill level

-> Mentor pairing

• Using HS participants as mentors as well?
• The four stages of knowing
• Next steps:
  • John to send two things to David:
  • -> "how to become a mentor" to recruit HS participants
  • -> "not ready for HS yet? get a mentor at P2PU" to help people level up

-> hackruiter - recruiting for p2pu

• May be able to help by setting us up with a developer