Culture Hack North: Leeds 2011 – thoughts

Posted on 21st November, by admin in Interesting things. No Comments

So, the weekend before last we held the first ever Culture Hack North at NTI Leeds. We played host to about 35 developers, 7 speakers and 30 talk attendees. I think it went incredibly well, of course there are things we could’ve done better/different and I’m determined to be ruthless in identifying what those things are so that next time the event can be event better, but for a first go I think it went pretty damn well.

So, some quick thoughts, these are just my thoughts – I’m still in the process of gathering and collating feedback from all the attendees.

The Good:

The venue; was awesome, seriously, I cannot thank Linda Broughton enough for letting us use Old Broadcasting House. It was perfect
The developers; bloody hell these people are clever/creative and then some.
The hacks; there were some absolutely amazing ideas executed … Read More »


Culture Hack North: Leeds 2011 – live blog

Posted on 12th November, by admin in Interesting things. No Comments

The entire event is being live-blogged (partly by me, partly by some entertaining people who can write) here http://culturehacknorth.co.uk/




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