alumNY Town halls to get feedback on `h26
TLDR; We're reaching out to you to solicit your brilliant ideas/hacks around market forces, to make hackNY 26 the best experience it can be. We’re hosting an NYC town hall Thursday, Oct 9th, a virtual town hall Tuesday, Oct 7th and have a form for your feedback if you can’t make either of them due Oct 11th.
The hackNY fellowship team has been heads down trying to figure out what changes we can to hackNY to keep our programs running in a way that’s sustainable, and continues to provide value to incoming students. Putting together a hackNY summer takes a huge amount of resources and time. We have some ideas of what changes we could make, but we want your feedback and ideas as well. We’ve collected feedback from the class of 2025, so this is the time for alumNY to give us input.
Organizing hackNY has gotten harder every year since 2020 due to many factors:
market forces, including many companies freezing tech hiring or removing internship hiring entirely.
current lack of staff (we’re fully volunteer run now)
funding constraints (we’re a nonprofit, maintaining an operational runway of 1-2 years is very important)
increased housing costs (the sweet Palladium deal is over)
limited volunteer pool (we need way more help).
To facilitate discussion we’ll be hosting a town hall in NYC, and a virtual town hall to collect your feedback. We want to share some of the constraints we’re working with and answer any questions you might have to help us all brainstorm things that we can be doing to make the fellowship better. If you can’t make either of these sessions we’ve got a form that you can fill out async.
NYC Townhall (Let us know if you’ve got an office we can use) - https://partiful.com/e/1RK9MyLPSqKlC9fcfQcF
Virtual Townhall - https://partiful.com/e/1BuBn3kapbTDkozxHCfR
Feedback form if you can’t make either - https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScJ_U2sJN3he5pqUURjgPj3Dk8rEiSfHbi9Tcwa1Y-anv_4TQ/viewform
Yours,
Shy and the Fellowship team.