feedback from a “non-technical” side
for the 1st question : generally am up for another hacking. it depends if I can be more useful as a non programmer. For the place and time , since I am not in Europe now , I am up to help organize something here in Egypt to hack in parallel with you. It could be also good to have different spots in Europe- if it is feasible in terms of workload , coordination and so on -
hack4gaza that was co-organized by @elf_Pavlik was kinda successful in this as it happened in Algeria and Berlin at the same time , couldn’t happen in Egypt due to political reasons , All physical spaces were uploading their projects here.
for the 2nd question : here is my feedback as non programmer.
as @Matthias mentioned either you learn durpal or work with something you know in the 2 days span, so for me it was like a crash course in Durpal , which was really helpful as I wouldn’t have learned how to be familiar with it except for this way and now I am trying to learn more without thinking that it is very complicated ,
before starting the hacking I was expecting that I would help with some visuals and text and it turned out much more better as I wasn’t excluded from the process as a non technical person.
It would have been better if we knew in advance the task and skills of the participants. for example @Matthias was overloaded with work as he was the only one who can do this work so if only there was someone who can help him things could have been much faster and easier.
Also I agree we needed an ending.
another thing which emphasis the harmonies issue , it was really nice to see @Björn_Ekblom 's findings in the hackathon in a session during lote, and wished to know more about the kiderwind in a session , may be I missed it ,
for the 3rd question :
as “follow up is everything” , we need to follow up and continue working on this durpal platform. but generally I prefer more kiderwind-like projects. I am trying to "hack the tape " but searching for more “technical” people here, could be easily integrated as a track in the next hackathon.