GLOBAL CYCLEHACK PACK VERSION 0.1 CYCLEHACK II, JUNE 2015
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CONTENTS 0. CYCLEHACK OVERVIEW 1. SET UP BRANDING AND COMMUNICATIONS 2. FINDING PARTNERS AND SPONSORS 3. SECURING A VENUE 4. SETTING UP A SIGN UP PAGE AND TICKETS 5. MARKETING YOUR EVENT 6. ORGANISING SPEAKERS
“In my point of view this [CycleHack] has been absolutely brilliant and by far the best hack I have been to. This is what we need to start doing more of in this city.”
7. OUTLINING YOUR CycleHack AGENDA Mark Irwin, Future Cities, Glasgow
8.ORGANISING FOOD AND DRINK 9. PRINTING AND PREPARING TOOLS 10. PARTICIPANT REMINDERS 11. WRAP UP OF CONTENT 12. EVALUATION
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CYCLEHACK OVERVIEW
WHAT IS CYCLEHACK? CycleHack is a global movement aiming to make the world more sustainable by reducing the barriers to cycling. We are an annual event and organisation that brings people and their places together to discuss and generate solutions to barriers that stop or inhibit people from successfully cycling.
to design your own facilitation tool, timetable, branding, group working exercises you are welcome to. CycleHack HQ will provide you with the basics which you can customise for others to use. It’s important you recognise that this is your local CycleHack so design it how you think it should run best, relevant to your place.
WHAT’S THE HISTORY?
We have a few basic rules (see rules section) but other than that, make it awesome where you are. You know best.
CycleHack began as a conversation between Jo Holtan and Sarah Drummond. They later met Matt Lowell who is a keen cyclist and designer and as co-founders now run CycleHack as an organisation that has grown to become a global movement.
But remember, we are here the whole way to support you. We use Basecamp to centralise questions as something you ask on the platform may be relevant to another local CycleHack. HOW DOES IT WORK?
All three wanted to provide an event which allows people to pro-actively develop solutions to make cycling more accessible and easier for both people who cycle and those who don't. The first event ran in June 2014 with nearly 100 attendees in Glasgow and sparking two parallel events in Melbourne and Beirut. Despite launching a new event within a short amount of time, we created 31 dynamic hacks and engaged with people in a whole new way. Now with more time to organise, we are excited to make CycleHack's second year bigger and better. WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO BE A GLOBAL PARTNER? You organise your CycleHack event. Our role is to support you with the tools and ideas on how you might run it. We have experience as a team in running CycleHacks, how best to get people collaborating and generating ideas together.
Each location begins on a Friday evening at 6pm, and runs their CycleHack for just over 48 hours. There is more detailed event information on timescales in the CycleHack event section but essentially, at some point, we are all CycleHacking at the same time! To date, there are 30+ cities signed up so you will be part of a Global Movement. HOW MUCH SUPPORT DOES THE CYCLEHACK HEAD QUARTERS PROVIDE? We don’t control your event but provide you with support, resources and facilitation on how to run a great CycleHack event. We have a few rules (see the rules section) but overall we’ll be here in the run up to the 2015 CycleHack to support you and answer all your questions the best we can.
We have the Basecamp for collaborating and sharing ideas with one another. You are welcome
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BARRIERS AND CYCLEHACKS
WHAT KIND OF BARRIERS AND PROBLEMS DOES CYCLEHACK SOLVE? From running the 2014 CycleHack, we have begun to understand the different types of ‘problems’ or barriers that exist which CycleHack teams will address all over the world. These could be broken down into micro and Macro issues. There is no right or wrong barrier to solve, or CycleHacks to make. Ultimately what we are looking for are ideas that meet a public need and make cycling easier both for people who cycle and current ‘non-cyclists’.
At CycleHack Melbourne, they designed an experience and bike scheme to offer company bikes. It was a total system design including marketing ideas, business models and the touch points of how this system might work for the general public. They took a much larger way of looking at barriers and ideas to improving the cycling experience. These are just some examples of the different approaches you can take to creating a great CycleHack which effectively addresses the barriers you face in your community. THE DIFFERENT CYCLEHACK CATEGORIES:
Themes can vary from making cycling safer, to better marketing of the industry. From considering how to get more woman on bikes to making it more visible in the city. We are open to all barriers and CycleHack ideas.
In addition to micro and macro ideas, we have broken down CycleHacks in four categories:
Micro barriers may focus on small problems that need solved like how can we make this specific street corner safer and stop pedestrians from crossing the road without looking? Or how might we design a manifesto for a bike friendly business? Macro barriers might look at how you improve cycling marketing to get more people on their bikes. For example, in Glasgow participants at CycleHack Glasgow created several micro hacks. The reason for many more smaller micro barriers and hacks is because a Cycling infrastructure already exists and therefore we were looking at some very defined issues that needed solving within a specific location within the city. In contrast, CycleHack Beirut looked at larger, more macro barriers because a cycling infrastructure barely exists. CycleHack Beirut was less about identifying problems and more about engaging people around cycling. They focused on people who don’t currently cycle.
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Digital This might be an app, cycling software, a way of making data more accessible or easier to collect. Event/Campaign This is an idea that considers delivering a message, or a specifically timed event to be launched post CycleHack or tested during CycleHack. It could take the form of a blog that collects Cycle Stories from people in a city. Physical This will be a product or service design that has been prototyped or visualised in some format. It could take the form of some new street sign-age or an attachment to your bike. Policy This will be either governance, a manifesto or principles for an idea or design. This could take the form of a cycling manifesto for how to market cycling in a city or a sign up scheme for bike friendly business.
THE ORGANISING TIMELINE
WHAT’S THE TIMELINE FOR ORGANISING AND RUNNING CYCLEHACK? The next section is broken down into an ideal timeline of setting up, advertising and running your CycleHack where you live. Our timeline is only an indication of how you might breakdown the next 10 months. You don't need to start now, but the longer you give yourself the more successful you will have in signing people up to attend your local Cyclechack.
1. Set up branding and communications 2. Finding partners and sponsors 3. Securing a venue 4. Setting up a sign up page and tickets 5. Marketing your event 6. Organising speakers 7. Outlining your CycleHack agenda 8. Organising food and drink 9. Printing and preparing tools and materials 10. Participant reminders 11.Wrap up of content 12. Evaluation
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BRAND
1. SET UP BRANDING AND COMMUNICATIONS We’ve created a new brand for CycleHack 2015. In the File section of basecamp you will find an .ai, .eps and .pdf file of the overall CycleHack logo and then on the 3rd page an editable shape that you can design into your own Head Badge. We ask you keep the curved CycleHack, the est. 2014 and Global Movement title and edit your city/place name. The city text is in Bebas which you can download from dafont.com and install into your Font book on your computer.
This is our core CycleHack logo which you can use to show you are affiliated with the core CycleHack group.
There is also a .png version for you to use if you can’t open the files with software you have. We use Adobe Creative Suite and a programme called Illustrator to do our graphics so if you have this that’s great. If you need help and don't feel confident to design them yourself or you don't have the right tools, just give us a shout on Basecamp and we can either call out to a local design network or help you out ourselves. If this is the case, let us know some ideas for colours and shapes you would like to use. We're looking to get a diversity of coloured, different shaped and textured head badges to identify each city which you can use for your CycleHack branding locally. Our Glasgow one is quick mock up we made to show you how you might want to edit yours. You can edit the circle too if you want, for inspiration you might want to google search and check out the image tab for 'Head Badges'.
This is a simpler badge if you need to fit it into other documentation. We also ask that you set up a Facebook and Twitter. If other forms of social media are more popular in your country, you are welcome to use just let us know. To play into the global movement use the #CycleHack tag, however we leave it to you to create a more local tag, i.e for Glasgow we will use #CycleHackgla to keep some tweets local for the weekend participants.
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BRAND
This is our colour palette: #86c49f #ee7642 #709181 #343432 #d04d44
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There are editable logos which you can format to your choice to suit your city or place.
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PARTNERS
2. FINDING PARTNERS You don’t have to do this alone. There will be key networks and partners in your city and country to help you make your CycleHack a reality. We’ve done this a few times before so there are some ideas on where and how you might find these different disciplines and networks. You can directly involve them as organisers to support you in setting up your local CycleHack or just bear these networks in mind for later promotion. Cycle/bike community It’s always good to bring in local knowledge to your CycleHack but important to remember some places or communites may not have a developed cycling infrastructure or network. If you do have a good infrastructure we recommend speaking to cycling agencies and organisations (charities, bodies) who can support with promotion, knowledge or help frame challenges that need solved in the sector. Look out for local bike business and messenger companies, they are often aware of what's going on and good to partner with as supporters, promoters, and participants of the CycleHack weekend. We also worked with several local bike business to operate food and drink throughout the weekend to support the local economy. Local Authority and Governments
Some may not be in a position to be directly involved in the CycleHack but we’ve found bringing them on as mentors during the event can be very valuable to groups. Maker community Communities like the Fablab groups and Maklab, hack and maker spaces have the kind of people who like to make ideas real, the technology to do so and the know how to 3D model, make quick prototypes and provide space for ‘doing’. In our first CycleHack we partnered with Glasgow’s Maklab who provided 3D printers, laser cutters, vinyl cutters and use of their facilities for CycleHackers to make ideas real. They will also be able to promote your event to an already interested network of makers. You might also find these types of people through universities and colleges. Developer Community Developers who can build technology, software, apps, play with data are useful for the more digital elements of hacking. These communities often have websites dedicated in their city to meet ups and groups. Have a scan of what’s going on in the developer community and attend one of their events to promote your CycleHack. Designer Community The design community are useful for product and service design and making prototypes happen really quickly. This community are great to get on board to help develop ideas and work through problem solving activities.
Local authorities, public bodies and councils may be interested in CycleHack in terms of planning, infrastructure and city design. We are interested in engaging these kind of partners particularly as they may be interested in taking forward concepts developed during CycleHack.
You may find these communities by tapping into local art colleges and technical universities.
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THE VENUE
3. SECURING A VENUE A venue can make or break an event. It really depends on what scale you might be running your CycleHack. You might want to consider the venue as a key partner to have on board early on who can support with any issues around insurance, health and safety. If your CycleHack is just a group of friends, someone’s garage or shop might do. Most Cyclehack organisers intend to invite members of the public they've never met, so in this case you're going to need to secure a venue. There are a few key essentials that comes with finding the right venue:
// PARTNER WITH A UNIVERSITY/COLLEGE/MAKER SPACE By creating a partnership or sponsor, ask for space and advertise their support with your marketing. Everyone will win in this situation // BARTER Again, offer promotion of their space and you might have to only cover the costs of staffing over the weekend // COMPANY OFFICE
// Accessible Friday evening, Saturday and Sunday. Some venues stay open all night, this is not essential but others need to stay open for a good proportion of the Friday evening (up to about 11pm or midnight) and Saturday from morning to night.
Do you or any of your friends know someone with a large office or design space that would be willing to lend it to you? You won’t get if you don’t ask. FIND A SPACE EARLY ON
// Wifi is essential, and it should be a fairly good connection. We require people to upload their ideas to the CycleHack Catalogue on Sunday so you’ll need the internet for this. It’s also a great tool during the weekend // Security. Have a think about how you keep the place secure. This might be provided by the venue but you’ll want some keys to keep the space locked over night
We put this task early on so that it gives your event credibility when you come to market it. Don’t worry if you can’t secure one, you can still advertise your local CycleHack without having the venue sorted, first time round we kept a ‘to be confirmed’ note when it came to us advertising the event.
// Enough space to hack. You may want breakout spaces and areas where some tools will be used so keep this in mind. ISN’T A VENUE EXPENSIVE? Yes it can be although in the past we’ve got ours for a reduced cost or for free. Here are some ideas to help you out on making this a free or low cost production
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SIGN UP AND TICKETING
4. SETTING UP A SIGN UP PAGE AND TICKETS The first we we are always asked is, 'Should we charge for tickets?' We say yes, a small fee to cover basic costs. It also makes people take the event more seriously and not cancel at the last minute, or even just not turn up because it was ‘free’. This event should not be used to make money, it is not for profit and only to cover costs if you do charge for tickets. In sterling (GBP) we charged £10 last year, although check in on your local licensing laws in case you decide to give away alcohol, which can sometimesbe tricky with charging ticket prices. However, you might find enough sponsorship or keep your costs down that you want to make it a free event. This is up to you!
From Eventbrite you can view who is signing up to your event, message all participants and generally control all elements of ticketing. You can also set up different ticket types to control who is coming to what part of CycleHack. We generally break them down into two tickets types: // CycleHack Weekender // CycleHack Show and Tell Weekender tickets is for someone to take part all weekend. Show and Tell is for the Friday evening and Sunday presentations, the bookends of the weekend. It’s important to make this known, and Eventbrite allows you to set up descriptions for each ticket type.
SETTING UP A SIGN UP PAGE There are lots of online services you can choose but we prefer Eventbrite the most. Eventbrite allows you to set up tickets that people can purchase (for free/or a fee).
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MARKETING
5. MARKETING YOUR EVENT You know your city the best. Similar to the partner information we provided, start to look at different networks where you are. We recommend putting a specific one pager together for your local CycleHack and we’ll provide a template on Basecamp for you to edit. By this stage if you have partners or sponsors on board, include their logos, it might give the weekend more kudos. We’ll also provide some basic posters, but it’s good if you can edit them to give them a more local flavour, add your own logo, your own spin. Again, similar to the logos, if you don’t have the graphical skills reach out on Twitter or Basecamp and we’ll give you a hand.
20 - 22nd June | Glasgow | Whiskey Bond
2 DAYS, 100 PEOPLE, 50 CycleHackS Building ideas to make cycling better for all
Sign up or support us on kickstarter:
CycleHack.com @cycle_hack #CycleHack /CycleHack
What’s important when you market it is to help people understand what might happen at a CycleHack. We’ve produced a film which might be helpful to show but we’re all up for you producing your own marketing, we’re excited to see what you will come up with.
What is a CycleHack?
20 - 22nd June | Glasgow | Whisky Bond
2 DAYS, 100 PEOPLE, 50 CycleHackS Building ideas to make cycling better for all
CycleHack is an event bringing people together to come up with ideas that solve the barriers to cycling and build them in under 48 hours. During CycleHack we create teams of people with a variety of skills to build and make new ideas a reality in just 48 hours. We then put the ideas online for the world to share. We’re looking for people like you. People who are excited about making cycling easier where they live and have experience of moving around the city, so that includes everyone. To add to the mix we’re on the hunt for cycling developers and designers to help make the ideas real over the weekend.
CycleHack poster from 2014
A CycleHack is an idea that removes a barrier to cycling, and has been made real into some kind of prototype. For us, it is an idea that can be implemented into a city. It is an idea that solves a barrier to cycling. Hacks can be physical, digital or even policy based. You might design a mudguard that can be cut from a plastic bottle to solve wet bums, a handlebar paint squeezer that highlights potholes with luminous paint to solve hidden potholes at night or a website showing where you can find a cycle buddy in your city to show you the roads to solve people feeling scared to take the leap into city cycling. Visit CycleHack.com to sign up for the event and get your ticket before they run out. You can either purchase a full weekend ticket or a Friday and Sunday evening show and tell ticket.
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CycleHack postcard from 2014 Sign up or support us on kickstarter:
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SPEAKERS
6. ORGANISING SPEAKERS Speakers are a great start to a CycleHack weekend. It allows you to create a mini event for people to attend who can’t make all weekend and only purchase a show and tell ticket. Keep it short and concise per speaker. 5-7 minutes each is enough. We think a variety of speakers from different backgrounds will keep the event balanced. Try and get a speakers from backgrounds including: // // // // //
Local bike business owners Local authority/Council Urban planners Designers Developers
Arranging speakers for the Sunday evening to close the event is another great draw for people to come back on the Sunday.
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THE AGENDA
7. OUTLINING YOUR CYCLEHACK AGENDA
SATURDAY Saturday concentrates on teams big and small, working on bringing their CycleHack ideas to life and testing them in the city
We found it useful to have this available before the event so people knew what they were getting into.
SUNDAY Sunday focuses on documenting and finenessing the CycleHack ideas and preparing for public presentations.
Let’s breakdown the weekend first. FRIDAY Friday focuses on speakers and discussing potential barriers and CycleHack ideas.
FRIDAY CycleHack Kick-Off & Drinks 6pm
CycleHack Speakers 6:30 - 8pm
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Introducing Barriers & discuss hack ideas 8:30pm
Pizza anyone?
8pm Weekend ticket holders register on open source catalogue by 12pm
Break 8 - 8:30pm
Show & Tell Ticket Access 6 - 9pm
SATURDAY BREAKFAST! 9 - 9:30am
CycleHack check-ins & team forming 9:30 -10:15am
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Potential Workshop for skills from specialist
11am Start designing CycleHacks
Pick up your PACK-LUNCH BAG! 1pm
Develop Ideas / First Prototype (Afternoon)
1pm An insigh t into what's possible w hen it comes to physical ha cks!
Sketch up initial ideas
Status Report from teams
BBQ & MUSIC! provided by Siempre Bike Cafe 7 - 9pm
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TASTY!
7pm KEEP CycleHackING!
Evaluation, Ideation, Design second prototype
SUNDAY BREAKFAST! Provided by Bakery 47 9 - 9:30am
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Status Report from teams
CycleHack check-ins 9:30 10:15am
LUNCH! 1-2pm
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11am Prototype Testing and Documenting (Morning)
Kick-back, relax & watch some cool bike short films!
Get out in to the city , test you hack idea & documen t it in use!
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Final Upload of CycleHacks! 3 - 5pm
CycleHack Presentations & Judging 5 - 8pm
3pm Prepare 3min presentation / pitch
Show & Tell Ticket Access 5 - 8pm
Winners!!
5 - 8pm CycleHack Prizes 8:15pm
THE AGENDA
FRIDAY | BARRIERS AND CYCLEHACK IDEAS For our first CycleHack we undertook some short research on the streets, with cyclists, drivers, pedestrians and the local authority to understand their barriers to cycling and ideas they had for CycleHacks. We used a basic form on our website in addition to this and our Facebook page to ask people what they would CycleHack. This gave us plenty to begin with which we wrote onto Barrier and CycleHack cards, available on the Basecamp. We also held two CycleHack Socials two months before the weekend, inviting people interested in CycleHack to come to a pub and document their ideas and barriers onto CycleHack cards. We gave everyone these cards when they attended on Friday at a welcome desk so throughout the presentations and pizza they could document their ideas. We hung these up on a ‘washing line’ with pegs which made a fantastic central piece to the event. This meant whilst people were having beers they could discuss, view and add their ideas to the line. We recommend then holding a large discussion centred around this to get people to pitch the ideas they would like to work on. After this check in we let people drink some more beer and talk about what they’d like to work on with other participants.
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SATURDAY | CREATING GROUPS/CYCLEHACK PROTOTYPES This is the difficult part of the process. On Saturday morning after breakfast we ran a check in. Some people had already formed groups which we asked them to pin up on a separate line to show what they were working on. We asked people to re-pitch their ideas. What we ended up with was about 12 small groups of 2-4 people. It’s important to remember there is no right or wrong way to do this. In Glasgow, we had many small barriers to solve so it made it easy to form small groups. However, some cities or places may have much larger macro issues to solve, for example, ‘How do we encourage people to cycle?’ This might mean that you retain larger groups across the weekend that later break off into smaller idea groups. It’s also important to remember that you let participants know they can float between groups. It’s good to have an idea owner per CycleHack but we found at our event some groups would make a quick CycleHack and start another or join a different group. The key to this formation is to keep people talking and move between groups as facilitators to see what skills people need.
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THE AGENDA
SATURDAY | POTENTIAL WORKSHOPS On the Saturday we had planned some short workshops for participants. These included short workshops on how to use fabrication tools and small design exercises. We ended up not running these as a large cohort of our CycleHack had the skills and know how already. However, we would strongly recommended some short ‘how to’ workshops just before and after lunch time to support people to understand how to prototype and test ideas. SATURDAY | URBAN PROTOTYPING In the afternoon of Saturday we encouraged people to get out and try their ideas in the city. It was important that the ideas that could be physically realised in some way were tested or at least filmed/photographed as evidence and in situ. These make compelling images to use during the final presentations and for use to take forward post event. SUNDAY | CHECK IN On Sunday we run a check in with teams just after breakfast to see if any new quick hacks can take place and to focus on getting a final prototype finished and presentation worked out. SUNDAY | FILM We ran a series of short films we had put together online using vimeo during lunch to allow people to relax and take a quick break. Running up to the CycleHack we will share a link of films for you to show if you wish.
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THE AGENDA
SUNDAY | UPLOADING TO THE CATALOGUE The CycleHack Open Source Catalogue allows all ideas to be shared on a global scale. Participants can sign up as CycleHackers at CycleHack.com/catalogue and we ask them to upload their hacks, source files, images, members and a description of their hack. We are currently going through web developments so these instructions are likely to change but we will post an update when this happens. Key to our next developments is to create functionality for signed up participants to discuss their hacks and continue to develop them post CycleHack. If a participant feels their hack is commercially viable they do not have to upload it but we would stress that the more that is shared (even just an image of a product or service) the more chance development could take place from an interested party. SUNDAY | PRESENTATIONS During our first CycleHack we had 21 created ideas. We limited each presentation to three minutes. We asked participants to tell us what their CycleHack was called, what barrier it solved and how it works. Some showed slides, some just showed off their drawings and formed ideas and some had cut quick short films. It’s important to start collecting these at least an hour before people arrive for your final presentations and place them into one presentation deck. We will provide a powerpoint/PDF/Keynote template for participants to download. Additionally we had a couple of extra speakers from the cycling world and our sponsors to say a few words which broke up the event.
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THE AGENDA
SUNDAY | PRIZES We created a couple of special prizes from our sponsors which raised the profile of the event. It’s a good idea to have a few sponsored event tickets or products from local (or national) sponsor to bring the CycleHack to a positive end. We know it’s the taking part the counts but lets be honest, everyone loves a good prize! Our prize categories included: // // // // // // //
Best physical hack Best campaign hack Best policy hack Best digital hack Most likely to increase Cycle Safety Most likely to encourage more woman to cycle Most likely to change cycling image
You can add your own, particularly as some of the above may not fit with your city.
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FOOD, MATERIALS AND REMINDERS
8. ORGANISING FOOD AND DRINKS
10. PARTICIPANT REMINDERS
We believe food and drink is important to the event. It’s best to be upfront with participants about how this might work.
It’s a good idea to send out a reminder email to your participants in the run up to the event.
If you gain sponsorship and can afford to purchase food over the weekend then go for it. Good food and drink can really make an event. We had wine/beer/soft drinks on the Friday, Saturday and Sunday evening, which was set up for extra guests arriving using their Show & Tell tickets.
By using Eventbrite, you can login to the dashboard and mail all your participants in one go. You can also send separate emails to show and tell and weekender tickets. It is ideal to remind people that they’ve signed up and what they need to bring, times to attend and directions to the venue. 11. WRAP UP CONTENT
We had pizza on Friday evening, a BBQ on Saturday and curry for Sunday’s lunch time. However, you don’t have to provide food. You can ask participants to put some money into a hat to share the cost of delivered takeaway. You could also build your own lunch/breakfast where everyone brings food and drink to share.
We’ll be adding more detail to this section post CycleHack but we would like you to zip a file and share on dropbox some photos and film of your CycleHack that we can pull together into a publication. 12. EVALUATION We’ll share a link to an evaluation form. We want to listen to you, the organisers and your participants to find out what we do well, and what we can improve each year.
You can include this in the ticket price on Eventbrite so you can cover the food. Or someone can cook a large meal. It’s up to you. You are under no obligation to provide food but do let your participants know what the deal is. 9.PRINTING AND PREPARING MATERIALS To support you, all our tools will be on Basecamp for you to pick and choose from. These range from barrier Cards and CycleHack Cards to storyboard templates to support your CycleHackers with idea development. You can print these cards in-house or find a local printing sponsor to make them for you. We will provide a check list in the run up to the event.
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THE RULES
RULES TO KEEP US ON THE SAME PAGE
5. JOIN IN THE FORUM
We try not to have too many rules but there are some important fundamentals that we need to cover.
We want you to be part of the Basecamp so we expect some interaction with you on the global platform. Keep us updated and in touch during the run up to the final weekend and during the CycleHack. It is important you provide us with a phone number in case we need to contact you during the CycleHack weekend or there are problems with the CycleHack catalogue.
1. CYCLEHACK LOCAL NAME You cannot have a CycleHack with a country name or your company name. You must choose a city or place name. We want to encourage different cities all over the world (and in the same country) to run CycleHack events. By giving a country brand to one city, we aren't allowing this to happen. 2.PLAY NICE AND COLLABORATE Collaboration is what makes CycleHack work. It’s important to be open and reach out to people who want to support you. 3. CHALLENGES
6. SIGN UP TO THE CATALOGUE Make sure your participants sign up to the Global CycleHack Catalogue during the event, ideally on the Friday and upload their ideas by the presentations on Sunday by 4pm local time. Work on each CycleHack must stop at this point. 7. PROVIDE INTERNET It’s important your venue provides a connection to the internet so that applications can sign up to the catalogue and upload their content.
A local CycleHack cannot focus on a specific challenge or theme. We want the events to remain open and allow people to contribute a range of barriers and ideas they want to work on. 4. NOT FOR PROFIT This is strictly a not for profit event. The Global CycleHack locations can charge for tickets but only to cover food/drink and material expenses. Talk to us if you have sponsorship left over, we can advise on how to be transparent about storing it for the next event or giving it to a local cycle charity.
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CycleHack is a global movement aiming to make the world more sustainable through cycling. We do this by reducing barriers to cycling through a grassroots approach to innovation. Together, we are tooling up citizens to problem solve, develop and implement their own CycleHack ideas to make the cycling experience around the world, better for all. Let’s work together to get more people on bikes, change perceptions of cycling and improve the total biking experience around the world.
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