2015 11 30@OK Lab
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Attendees: Ulrike, Moritz, Katharina (Migration Hub, Kiron University), Britta (Social Collective Berlin, Refugee Board), Steffen (Refugee Hackathon)
- http://refugeehackathon.de/en/
- Steffen is part of the Hackathon's organizing team
- Metabrain would be ideal in order to integrate it into the website of the Refugee Hackathon
- Metabrain could be the Backend of the Refugee Hackathon
- in order to organize support for all the projects
- in order to find projects that need and are suitable for support
- Hackathon sees itself more and more as a ThinkTank and wants more professionel project management
- Hackathon will write a concept for its own future
- Later, Metabrain could be the base of an app store (vision)
- Note to Co-Design-Workshop, December 12, 2015 in Berlin (http://www.jugendkulturen.de/details/co-design-workshop-27.html)
- Refugees organize themselves on facebook, all other have to start at the point where facebook's capabilities are limited.
- http://www.migrationhub.eu/
- place for building refugee-related start-ups/organizations
- setting up an own fund
- http://timeline.refugee-board.de/
- Refugee board is an app distributing help to refugees and helping supporters to find the ideal spot to help
- has data base for Berlin projects
- would like to expand
- Metabrain should be included in Refugee Hackathon concept
- projects that have to edit their own entries in the data base have to be attracted by something (e.g., funding/support opportunities)
- Organizing people to help Metabrain: capacities (time and interests) have to be known
- data base has to be in English and German
- marketing of Metabrain
- refugees hear from projects by word of mouth
- facebook very important
- marketing cannot be just digital
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next steps
- define working packages
- organize people behind meta brain
- distribute working packages
- bring project forward
- meet refugees and ask them about their needs
- define project managers/persons in charge
- discuss project management tools
- Human Ressources
- Designers will be important as well
- Marketing is needed
- Database needs open API (important for other projects - Britta)
- around 12-15 TU team members were present
- TU team informed us about their next steps
- team is seperated into different teams: database programming, project searchers and category definers
- they could have a first database running in 2 weeks (mid December)
- want to offer full-text search
- process of defining categories is hard
- every project will have its own little written introduction text (for full-text search)
- Ulrike informed TU team on meeting with Katharina, Britta and Steffen and emphasized that we would like to continue working together on metabrain
- we will need a more structured overview of the TU team (who is who)