The Hackathon’s outcome, lessons learned, and next steps

EUROCONTROL’s 2016 Hackathon

Benjamin Cramet and Blue Cloud ARTAS Maintenance Manager and The winning team

07/03/2017

+ mar-ATHON

do your best “short” time period

HACK-ing exploratory programming

What is an hackathon ?

32 participants from all over Europe 11 teams composed of friends and/or

aviation enthusiasts who met there

We have been asked to write an ASTERIX decoder

All Purpose STructured Eurocontrol Radar Information EXchange

Eurocontrol Hackathon

It was expected to be

FLEXIBLE FAST a WORKING solution

What was expected ?

We have met at Politecnico di Torino, studying together during the last 5 years. We have attended a Computer Engineering program, with different specializations.

No previous hackathon experiences. It’s hard to believe, but this is so encouraging! :-)

We have different competences, an key-feature that let us to split up the work!

Our background

What we liked? ‣ 1st day PITCH -> checkpoint to verify our idea

‣ The help and the clarifications given

‣ The venue -> working areas, accommodation and food

‣ Final presentations -> great opportunity to learn from the other participants

What has been hard?

‣ The TIME -> not to be wasted! :-)

‣ To focus in a few hours on a specific topic and start making a working plan

‣Challenge and fun it’s a competition! :-)

‣Networking making connections with other people

‣Discovery explore new topics and face new issues

‣Personal improvement learn from the solutions of other teams

What this hackathon has been for ‘BLUECLOUD' team?

‣ To test your skills, as a student or an aviation enthusiast ‣ To build a team ‣ To share ideas with other people ‣ To learn from each others’ ideas

…and the last but not the least…

‣ Try to win the 2nd edition! :-)

Why do we apply for the next one ?

Outcomes

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Source: Haytham Fox-CC BY-NC-SA 2.0

• New technological basis

• New key concepts to be developed

• Found talented people to do all that

Lessons learned

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• Do not make it too difficult

• Plan very carefully your event

• Do wide range marketing on social media

• Plan carefully how to judge the team

• Have fun

Source: B Cramet-CC BY-NC-SA 2.0

Next Steps

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Source: Theen Moy-CC BY-NC-SA 2.0

• Further develop the winning solution • Implement key concepts from all the teams • Develop a Asterix library internally

• Develop the library for Operational Use (Safety) • Once done integrated it into operational software

• Put hackathon on the road – Serious Games

That’s not all – We make it Open Source

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As it fits with the spirit of Hackathon -

We are thrilled to join Albatross And make Open Source Asterix

Source: Rachel-CC BY-NC-SA 2.0