[AshMokhberi]

I completely agree, I think there are many ways you could do things on a longer term basis. I think the idea of the "startup weekend" style event has a couple of benefits in this context.

1. It's a good way to try it and see what happens and learn so you can learn what to improve in the format.

2. It helps gain momentum because you're only requesting a small amount of initial time investment from people.

3. One of the key points I wanted to stress was the ability to have organisations on hand to help fill in knowledge gaps about the realties of the situation data etc, and also be able be actively involved in the process. I think it's easier to get them involved in that capacity for one weekend. Then build on there involvement after they see the value etc.