HackUB (Hackathon Ulaanbaatar) - Organizing event
Everything starts with something, and there is always first time. So this August with bunch of friends we decided to organize an event. And possibly biggest event for Mongolian IT crowd. We never actually organized any event though. All had none to small experience about organizing anything. But anyhow we started planning it. So as usual this is reminder for me. Even event is fully planned, all the speakers even the most responsible one could cancel out last minute. So always follow up speakers and prepare plan B C for them, as replacements. And if that happens just casually change speaker and be truthful to audience. They won't panic as much as you do. Be prepared for stuff. For this event everything came to in place on last minute. Printing, venue, even funding got accepted on last minute. So try to reduce those LAST MINUTE things. Those things will break your schedule and leave a huge impact. At least try to print materials that won't change as soon as possible. Get ...