The Hacker Fair Project

The Hacker Fair Project

Katy Levinson

People

Many Need to evaluate strangers Very few are right Must evaluate a lot of people

Evaluating People in Bulk

GPAs SATs GREs Awards / Fellowships Degrees Years of experience

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This is not

Against education system Against big companies

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What does this reward?

System can be gamed Everything is a Markov Chain

Good talkers

“We are what we celebrate”

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What Do We Want Celebrated?

Hands-on experience Love of work Real Skills Talent Being a nice person

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New Design

Needs to Be fast Scale

We decided to Gather people Let candidates demo personal projects

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Overwhelming Response

Candidates from Maine, Austin and LA TechCrunch, Washington Post

Future Plans

Hacker Fair 1: April 3rd 2010 at Hacker Dojo in Mountain View California

Steal this idea! Two missed fairs! Need

Candidates Recruiters Sponsors Volunteers

Thanks

More info at hackerfair.pbworks.com