Hacking sustainability Broadening participation through Green Hackathons
Jorge Luis Zapico Lamela, Daniel Sapiens Pargman, Hannes Leonhard Ebner, Elina Eriksson · International Symposium on End-User Development · 2013
Green Hackathon is an international series of coding events withsustainability purpose. Developers, researchers, environmental practitioners,and anyone else who is interested, work for a limited amount of time to createinnovative software solutions for sustainability. These events have explicitlyaimed to invite a broad spectrum of expertise besides technical expertise. Thisarticle presents the experiences and tensions of including these end users at amostly technically oriented event, and discusses how end-user developmentcould be used to encourage more reflective practices and as well as broadeningthe participation and the interdisciplinary collaboration in these events – withhigher-quality as a prospective outcome.