SlideHackNight
Problem: Non profits and community organizations give many presentations to spread their work to different audiences. Many presenters complain that they can't afford the time to beautify their slide decks and aren't sure where to get help polishing their presentations.
Event/Breakout Group: Community organizations can come in and have designers at ChiHackNight improve the aesthetics of their slides. We could codify some of the lessons learned and create some online resources about improving slide presentations. There seem to be many blog articles and online courses on this topic, but it might be valuable to corral the main takeways and have the ChiHackNight brand on it :)
Per Eric's lightning talk, perhaps this could be a way to get more arts/design/public speaking people involved with ChiHackNight breakout groups.
Daniel F. Bassill · Wed 14 Dec 2016 3:58PM
I support an idea like this, perhaps in a bigger way. I've been building a database of non-school k-12 tutor, mentor and learning programs since 1994. I plot a list of nearly 200 programs on a Chicago area map, so people can see where existing programs are located and where more are needed. See the list and map at http://mappingforjustice.blogspot.com/2016/02/updated-map-showing-locations-of.html
I worked in the corporate office of Montgomery Ward during the 1970s and 1980s where functional teams supported more than 400 stores. Thus, my goal has been that functional teams, like tech people, or pr people, would adopt neighborhoods or sections of the city and suburbs, and proactively reach out to help them improve their web sites, deal with tech issues, etc. Rather than wait for the org to find tech support, encourage communities of tech people, via gatherings like HackNight, develop strategies that reach out and help the entire sector of similar programs.
Perhaps a Slack Channel would be a place for an on-going discussion. Offering to help improve slide decks might be a starting point.