TADHack Pre-Event and Post-Event Survey Results
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Pre-Event Survey Category Questions
Spain, 49
Sri Lanka, 35
Mexico, 15 USA, 14
Hungary, 5
Slovakia, 2 Netherlands, 5
Belgium, 7
India, 6 Russia, 3
Philippines, 17
Nigeria, 2
Germany, 3 Tunisia, 2
UK, 5
Singapore, 2 Pakistan, 2 Japan, 3 Italy, 2 Brasil, 2 Canada, 2 Malaysia, 5
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Pre-Event Results: Country were developer based
Pre-Event Results: How are you participating?
74
37
16
7
12
6
24
12
0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80
Madrid
Sri Lanka
Philippines
Malaysia
Chicago
Pune
Remotely
Just watching not participating
Total of 188 Responses
Pre-Event Results: What’s your Business?
35
75
16
4
16
18
24
Student
App Developer
Telco
Consulting
Platform Provider
System Integrator
Tech Vendor
Total of 188 Responses
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TADHack Specific Questions
47
33
67
52
44
68
54
24
33
36
43
21
30
Fun / inspiration / motivation
Participation certificate
Networking / contacts / meet interesting people
Hands-on experience
New ideas / feedback on ideas
Understand latest telecom tech
Understand different APIs platforms / tech
Help raising money for start-up
Exposure to telecom world
Understand what's possible with telecoms / webRTC
Prizes
Meet new partners / recruits
New business opportunities
Pre-Event Results: Top 3 things you want out of TADHack Votes
0
20
40
60
80
100
120
Very Interested
Interested
Not Interested
Pre-Event Results: View on Development Themes
Votes
Telecom APIs, WebRTC and Payment APIs were most interesting. With WebRTC being a “gateway technology” for developers to discover the broader capabilities of Telecom APIs.
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Technology Questions
10
42.6%
68.1%
44.7% 53.2%
48.9% 55.3%
51.1%
0.0%
10.0%
20.0%
30.0%
40.0%
50.0%
60.0%
70.0%
80.0%
Tele
com
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Tele
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ions
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aym
ents
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Pre-Event Results: What Tech are of most interest to your projects?
Communication APIs and WebRTC are top, but all technologies are considered relevant including the development tools.
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Developer ONLY Questions
12
Pre-Event Results: What developer communities are you involved with? 45% of Developers Responded
0
2
4
6
8
10
12
14
13
Pre-Event Results: How do you find business
27
19
26
19
17
20
Direct Sales / Contacts
Partners
Events
Open Source Communities
Dev Communities
Internet Sales
Votes
TADHack Post-Event Survey Results
18
7
3
1
2
1
6
2
0 2 4 6 8 10 12 14 16 18 20
Madrid
Sri Lanka
Philippines
Malaysia
Chicago
Pune
Remotely
Just watching not participating
Post-Event Results: How were you involved?
Total of 40 Responses
After the event, people are less motivated to provide feedback J.
20
18
15
15
14
6
Wifi (Spain event)
More Publicity (all locations)
Clearer pitches
Better Deep Dives
Better sponsor tools
Fairer Competition
Post-Event Results: What is the one thing we must do better?
Total of 40 Responses
In Madrid we had a WiFi problem, if we’re at the same location next year there will be fiber (we ended up on LTE and ADSL). More publicity is clearly required. Fairer competition reflected the variety of hacks being on show, which will be solved through grouping into 2 main categories of 24 hour hacks and a service innovation showcase. We also had a couple of mentions of making the hacks clearer to understanding – we need to ensure everyone follows a clear process in presenting their hacks.
Post-Event Results: What is the one thing we must do more of? Total of 35 Responses
People loved the satellites and want more on them, all locations generally liked the food. Though a couple demanded pizza and beer as it was a hackathon. On Prizes most people liked that we gave many prizes, through 20% would prefer 1 or 2 large prizes. My opinion is we keep the approach of lots of prizes to encourage as many people as possible to contribute, the ones who would win the big prizes will likely make it in the market anyway, so better we share the love.
12
11
11
11
9
9
Satellites
Great food
Global
Telecoms focus
Prizes
Great locations
Post-Event Results: Did you get what you hoped out of TADHack?
Total of 40 Responses
Yes, this is a self serving chart, but it was nice to see we achieve 100% satisfaction even given the hiccups and areas for improvement.
40
0
yes
no
18
9
6
2
Social event after prizes
More telecom novices
X-Satellite teams
Better filtering of ptiches
Post-Event Results: What is missing from TADHack?
Votes
The most common feedback was the need for a social event after the prizes, people wanted to socialize and share after the intense event. We should plan on some wrap-up event. Interestingly people wanted to explore x-satellite teams, i.e. people in Madrid and Sri Lanka coding together on a hack. Other feedback on team composition recommended mixing telecom novices and experts.
Post-Event Results: Other Satellite Locations
7
5
4
3
2
2
2
1
1
1
1
1
1
Mexico
Paris
Brasil
Amsterdam
Singapore
London
San Francisco
NYC / Boston
Bangalore
Dubai
Japan
Rome
Johannesburg