Our hackathon doesn’t have a predefined roles per se, in a way that people aren’t confined to their roles — we welcome suggestions and contributions from everyone, regardless of their “role”.

But it is useful to have a list of roles, as it helps makes clear what kind of help we need…

• Participant is why we organize this hackathon!

• Event MC helps keep the event going. (@Boonjira Angsumalee, @Tino Thamjarat)

  • For example, speaking in opening and closing sessions.
  • Making important announcements.

• Technical and general mentor helps participants. (@Chun Rapeepat, @Phoomparin Mano, @Wiput Pootong, @Phumrapee Limpianchop)

  • Providing technical and general support to participants with their projects.
    • General support including ideas, design, UX, product, etc.
  • Providing optional workshop for participants.
    • Participants in StupidHackTH2 suggested that we provide workshops, such as how to collaborate in hackathon (e.g. Git, etc).
    • In StupidHackTH1 we also planned to offer optional workshops such as “Design Thinking Sprint: 2 Hours workshop,” “GitHub 101,” and “Real World Coding 101.”
  • Maybe building a project of their own as well!
    • In StupidHackTH2, the staffs team also worked on and presented their own projects.

• Reception handles registration and check-in. (@Pankamol Srikaew)

• Facilitator and improvisers provides general help. (@Unnawut L.)

  • Basically, ensuring participants (and staffs) have a great time.
  • If you don’t know how you can help, but wants to help and enjoy the hackathon, this role may be suitable!
  • For example, in our 1st Stupid Hackathon, our facilitators went to nearby Tesco Lotus, comes back and make sandwiches for participants in the morning!
  • Improvisation and spontaneity is encouraged over following a plan.
    • If we try to come up with an upfront plan to stick with, there’s a lot of uncertainty. e.g. “What if participants don’t want a workshop?” “What if participants don’t like the meal?”
    • Reacting to the needs of participants can result in better and more memorable experience.
    • To quote a famous quote: It's not the plan; it's the planning. “In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.”

• Venue preparer prepares the venue and makes sure that things needed at the venue are available, such as: (@Unnawut L.)

  • Signboards for sponsors
  • Power outlets
  • Pencil, paper, whiteboards, if applicable
  • Making sure projectors and sound system works
  • Backdrops — do we even need that??

• Master of food ceremony makes sure everyone don’t starve. (@Tino Thamjarat, @Boonjira Angsumalee)

  • This doesn’t necessarily mean planning all the meals upfront — just be prepared to be able to serve meals!
  • Some meals may be prepared upfront. Some can be ordered or even bought and cooked on the spot. For some meals we can go out and have Dimsum.js at 2 a.m.

• Swag preparer prepares to give participants things they can bring home such as: (@Sittiwat Jirajaroenyingsuk)

  • T-shirts (if budget allows)
  • Name tags
  • Prizes (although some prizes can be ordered after the event, or on the spot!) (Mike Phulsuksombati)

• Photographer shoots beautiful photos! (@Sittiwat Jirajaroenyingsuk, Witchakorn Saphangphol)

  • Taking photos of memorable moments.
  • Maybe also retouching these photos.