Startup Weekend

What Ticket Should I Get?

A lot of you have been asking what the different ticket types mean. In order to answer your questions, we created a straightforward list of what the different jobs entail.

Developer–Sys Admin: You can set up the servers and make sure the tubes are not clogged to the internets. You run the tech show.

Developer–Backend: You’re the person who lays the solid foundation upon which everything else depends. Everyone else will be trying to get you to code up their brilliant idea after the weekend; and with a budget, you could.

Developer–Architect: You’re the person that comes up with the overarching vision for the project. You fit tab A into slot B.

Developer–Front End: You make things look good, working directly with the User Experience team to make everything rock for the user. CSS is your friend, and IE bugs are the enemy in which you destroy. User rebellion will be directed toward you.

PR: You like telling the story of this Startup Weekend and you’re awesome at keeping the message alive. Craft buzzword packed blog posts, dazzle them with brilliance or baffle them with bull.

User Experience: You know that all your friends are going to be using what you just helped create. You know that unless it’s user-friendly, your friends won’t talk to you. You fear losing your friends.

Designer: Someone has to add the drop shadow and gradient to that interface design, you will do it for the site design, banners, business cards and logo.

Legal: You make certain that all the i’s are dotted and all the t’s are crossed. We need to incorporate, come up with some basic TOU and cease and desist forms. Well, some of that is true.

Cook: Don’t know where you fit in but want to experience the weekend? The cook position might just be your ticket. You make sure the food shows up, the drinks are cold and the most random tasks are completed.

I hope this helps you pick what ticket to ‘buy.’ Remember to pick what you would like to spend your weekend doing, not necessarily what you do for your day job. If you are a designer, and wonder how User Experience works in a startup, sign up for a User Experience ticket and try it out. If you don’t like it, feel free to join the Design team anytime in the weekend.

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