The weekend

To join us for the Jailbrake weekend, sign up here.

When and where:

6.30pm, Friday 26th March – 4pm, Sunday 28th March 2010

The Young Foundation
18 Victoria Park Square
Bethnal Green
London
E2 9PF

What

The schedule tells you what happens when at the weekend.

Jailbrake is all about matching ideas with the people that can help make them happen. From our call for ideas, we’ve chosen six of the best to be developed at our weekend event.

At the weekend our aim is to transform a set of early-stage concepts into prototype services, ready to be funded and tested with real people – in under 48 hours.

How it works

Once we’ve got our six ideas, we’ll be inviting a whole range of different people to help build them. That might include software developers and designers, service users, service designers and people who are experts on the problems we’re trying to solve, as well as organisations who might be able to test an idea after the weekend and help it to grow.

The idea is to put all the people you need to get a project off the ground in one place for a weekend and set them the challenge of developing an idea very quickly.

If you come to the Jailbrake weekend, how you organise your time will be up to you. You get to choose the idea you’re most interested in and form a team around it.

We’ll give you some guidance about how to go about it, but the final aim is for teams to get their idea to the point of being ready to test with real people.

This might include working out the nature of the problem in hand, perhaps building some software to do the job, as well as thinking about how to sustain the idea and create a community of users.

By the end of the weekend, we’re looking for teams to prove the potential of the ideas they’ve been working on to be tested with real people and to demonstrate this in a final pitching competition in front of a panel of judges and members of the public.

What to expect if you come

Expect a little bit of structure and a lot of space to do your own thing, work with people who come from completely different backgrounds to you and figure out whether you’d like to get involved in your project after the weekend.

The weekend is inspired by the Social Innovation Camp model which brings together talented software developers and designers with social innovators to build effective web-based solutions to real social problems. Take a look at some of the films of previous events to get an idea of what the Jailbrake weekend will be like.