Talk:Health Jam Seattle

This jam is in the process of being planned.

People

Organizers

• Seth Woodworth (local organizer, Seattle XO dude)
• Mel Chua (experienced Jam-runner, electrical engineer)
• Ian Daniher (hardware lead on TeleHealth Module)

Potential people =

• Karl (Supersat)
• Zhu Zhu (UW XO-UG)

Potential groups

• SeaXO: PATH?
• UW?
• UW XUG?
• CWU?
• We need local doctors/nurses/public-health researchers to come in and help brainstorm in the beginning, and to come in for testing/feedback in the end, even if they can't stick around for the entire event and help on a team.

Sponsorship

Space

Only get space for the event itself. Assume hackers will want to work late. Assume they will want to have food in some area. Assume people will be responsible for finding/begging their own housing. We do want wifi and a projector, at minimum.

Food

Donations. Donations. Donations. Donuts, coffee, and pizza work well. Also, make it clear to participants that they'll have to find their own food (if we're in the city or somewhere near to easily accessible, cheap eats.)

Equipment

Local universities, hospitals/clinics, or hackers that would let us borrow/use their equipment for development and testing?

Budget

Projects will need a budget, particularly hardware ones. Is there a way we can get funding for each group to hack? Groups will need to coordinate prior to the Jam to figure out what kind of supplies they might need so we can get them ordered in advance - alternatively we should have the Jam near a fully stocked EE lab with equipment we are free to borrow.

Details

Size

• Team sizes tend to max out around 5 people for efficiency, although with hardware this might change. Teams should self-organize (in other words, people need to find each other on mailing lists and wikis; people can only register in teams).

• We want at least 2-3 teams with members that have serious hardware experience, preferably medical.

• We can also have a few floating advisors who are incredibly good at public health, electrical engineering, software, etc. who aren't part of a team but rather part of a global "mentor pool" that all teams can ask incessant questions of.