SCORE Developer Sprint Week in Ghent 2020

“Co-development? Hands-on, head first!”

After returning from a fruitful SCORE Development Sprint Week in July, the Ghent and Digipolis SCORE teams decided to host the next Development Sprint in Ghent. We invite you to join us at a new Development Sprint Week on 16-20 March 2020 in Ghent.

While the Development Sprint concept mainly focuses on the technological side (code writing, data diving, tackling common open source challenges, prototyping…), the programme also provides room for side tracks where all partners + all working groups are invited to co-work on any SCORE tasks & activities. The idea is to form a -highly energized- SCORE team for a week, physically meet, co-develop, go from ideas to common prototype, produce the next iteration of an existing solution, and tackle other challenges together. The group of participants discusses their progress on a daily basis, and we share continuously through a SCORE social media takeover.

We’re sure all previous Developer Sprint participants will testify that the opportunity of taking a ‘hands-on’ approach together for a week really moves forward the SCORE work plan on challenges, solutions, applications and outreach in all work packages.

If you’re interested, please save the date (16-20 March 2020), find our preliminary information here and don’t hesitate to get in touch with Justine and me if you have any question or suggestion. Together with our colleagues, Justine, Jef and me hope to welcome you again in Ghent in March.

PS We chose this particular week so you can enjoy with us the innovative open data and multi stakeholder development ‘vibe’ in our city during the days preceding our annual hackaton AppsForGhent (20-21 March 2020, tenth edition this year, theme: Mobility).

Feel free to forward the invitation to anyone active in SCORE co-development.

Hi @timvanachte,

This is a really great proposal and the suggestion that ‘non-technical’ partners might be able to participate is very welcome. The Bergen meeting will be a good opportunity to work out the best way to do this and help maximise the potential of the sprint.

i think it would be great for a non technical Service Design sprint week for all our needs as cities. Also how Living labs can be used to create tracktion and innovation in between ou cities. Let´s talk more about this Sid in Bergen. @evdoxia.kouraki Please shime in with thoughts

Great idea! Tech dev cannot stand alone (if it should work for any other context than short term tech dev).

Sent the following today to SCORE contacts in Bradford, but can be interesting for other partners and cities.

As mentioned in our preliminary information, the objective of the week is to bring the work and the people together in the same room(s), and have hands-on, tangible outcome oriented sessions with predefined timeslots, and make progress in our co-development efforts amongst cities. The agenda will be finetuned across the SCORE working groups that the actual participants represent, so it is flexible to fit the needs of the people/partners that join. Each timeslot can be different in the actual approach, some can be purely about hacking/coding, other ones focus on the service design sprint concept, some slots can even be about desk researching together or defining requirements / technologic workflows / architectures together. Participants that extend their stay for the weekend, are also invited to join Ghent’s 10th annual -open data oriented- hackaton (as an international hacker or as a visitor).

Preliminary programme:

Mon (16/03/2020): (tbc) "Data Dive": a Ghent Data & Information representative takes you through all open mobility datasets of Ghent that will be used in the hackaton (Fri-Sat)

Tue (17/03/2020): start development for SCORE

Wed (18/03/2020): development for SCORE

Thurs (19/03/2020): development for SCORE - round up

Fri (20/03/2020): rest, start hackathon ‘Apps for Ghent’* at 7 pm

Sat (21/03/2020): end hackathon ‘Apps for Ghent’ at 7pm

How can we fill this program with Living lab content, User needs, city needs, services design for common citizen services, e-services undone or hard to reach and OASC content oriented information and workshops. @brynskov @Janne @Juliette @evdoxia.kouraki @chrise68 @Justine We need to use this time for the broad strokes to idea generate and share knowledge. Can we have a talk / skype meet to set up agenda and inputs?

As shared by @Juliette earlier today:

Dear SCORE partners,

Our colleagues from Ghent City and Digipolis Ghent are preparing a Developer & Design Sprint week and need your opinion to finalise the agenda and make sure each attendee gets the best out of the Sprint!

Take this opportunity and answer their (short) survey here before Friday 6th December, end of day.

Kind reminder that the Developer and Design Sprint will take place on 16th-20th March 2020 in Ghent, Belgium, more information available here.

Thanks in advance for your contributions!

Input received so far has been added to the programme (work in progress)

Joining the sprint week? Remember to indicate here

Great idea and program!

@timvanachte @Justine @Jefwillems perhaps it might be nice to invite some other non-score organizations to attend? are there any cities or municipalities in your area/network that might be interested in sending someone along to listen/learn/participate?

Hey @claus

Yes good idea. Already started inviting people from other organisations in the area. I’ll look for some interested cities or networks as well

@brynskov Could we find a slot to fill about city needs and sharing ideas on moving forward?

Sure. We’ve proposed this, one part in the beginning, to shape the conversation, one in the end to point forward.

I guess it’s @Tim who really holds the agenda. Feel free to propose to him and the Ghent team directly.

Brilliant! Tim can you help us with 2 slots so we can meet the teams that want to work more strategically in what are the needs of the cities and what martin and I can help in going forward.
2-3 hours to start off the week and2-3 hours at the end.
Me and Martin will fix a program if we get the slots and room we need.
@brynskov

@timvanachte

A slot at beginning, slot at end, and space to get it done are OK @klantto @brynskov.
@Justine and me will get in touch for further details incl. a title and short description to include in the programme.
Please also think of opportunities of inviting non-score organizations eg. from Belgium or neighbouring countries, as @claus suggested.
Looking forward!

@timvanachte @Justine @Jefwillems will someone from your service factory team be around for the sprint? Any chance we could arrange for a slot to meet them?

Good suggestion. Consider it arranged @claus. Service Factory is joining the DevSprintWeek for a introduction, demo, and a zoom in to the services of choice (eg. citizen reporting service API, or others)

All SCORE partners are welcome to join this session. Ghent Service Factory’s work can be very relevant for our SCORE activities.

The Service Factory is a team within Digipolis Ghent that finds reusable components. These are built and provided according to the API-first principle.

Their website is in Dutch. Auto translated to English here

Hej @timvanachte
who is the one owning this point?

“Open citizen science solutions
Air quality & Traffic”

@agot.watne and i are intrigued.

Hi @klantto @agot.watne

We are looking to invite speakers for two citizen science initiatives (air quality and AI traffic counting) based on citizen science approaches here in Ghent/Flanders/Belgium. The idea is that insights can be exchanged with SCORE partners.

See also this thread

To those we have not reached out individually yet: an important heads up about the sprint week.

Coronavirus measures are affecting the Development Sprint: the physical meeting in Ghent will be cancelled.

So bad news we are afraid, unfortunately the coronavirus situation in Belgium reached a turning point since yesterday evening. After considerations we decided the most appropriate measure now is to cancel the physical event next week. Well, not really cancel, but downscale, reinvent and basically transform it into a 100% remote event. The daily development sessions will be done remotely, and we will revise together with our speakers which side track sessions make sense to hold remotely (so do keep the timeslots available next week to still join the to be revised programme).

While it makes us pretty sad to have to bring you this message and we are sorry for the inconveniences our decision causes, at the same time we realised this actually generates new opportunities for all in the SCORE partnership in terms of applying remote collaboration to discussing, designing and developing SCORE’s solutions. So that is how we, the Ghent SCORE team, are currently looking at things, in a positive way despite the circumstances and doing our best to turn this situation around.

Give us some time to reorganize a bit and more information will follow.