<commit_before># Who is our customer?

We need to define our customer to narrow down the search criteria for who we
work with. Ideally our customer is everyone, but we can't initially work with
everyone.

* What is hackEDU club?
  * A hackEDU retreat is a safe place from the rest of high school, to learn and build what you care about.
    * A hackEDU retreat embodies the following values:
      * Radical Inclusiveness
      * Mutual Improvement
      * Radical Absurdity
      * Our values result in the following effects:
        * Family
        * Safety
        * People doing what they care about
        * Being true to yourself
      * Notes
        * Radical Beginner Friendlyness
        * -
        * Radical Self Expression
        * Radical Customer Contentment
        * Mission is built on 
        * -
        * Celebrate Failure
          * Vulnerability
          * Growth Mindset
          * Empathy
        * Self Expression
          * Landmark Stuff
          * 4 Agreements Stuff
            * "domestication"
        * With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility
          * Why
          * Empathy
        * Discovery
          * Papert Discovery, Present About Things You've Learned
        * Forget it, Ship It
          * MVP
          * Design Thinking
          * Lean Startup
          * Agile Development
        * Don't Ask For Permission, Ask For Forgiveness
          * Agency, Courage
          * There are two kinds of people in the world: people who don't know what the hell they are doing and don't do anything, and people who don't know what the hell they are doing but do it anyway.
          * Daring Greatly
    * Notes
      * We might want to make the "with code" part explicit initially and then expand the scope later.
* Organizers
  * Objective: figure out where we can most effectively build great clubs
  * Traits that we care about
    * Cares about people
    * Has a computer
    * Someone who comes to us
      * Intrinsically motivated
    * Initial strong seed
      * One of the leaders needs to be independently strong
        * Will bring other leaders up
        * Will set precedent for club
* Members
  * Potential
    * want to build or break things or are currently building or breaking things with code
    * are interested in coding for job/college/etc possibilities and haven't seen how it's cool for other reasons yet
  * Active members
    * What we don't want
      * Arrogance
      * People going because
        * the job/college/etc possibilities in the future
        * their parents told them to
    * want to build or break things with code
      * programming is cool, but it's hard and I haven't built a real project yet
    * currently building or breaking things with code
      * people who wan
    * are willing to visit club meetings
* Notes
  * Why is coding fun?
    * The Mythical Man-Month
      * The sheer joy of making things.
      * The pleasure of making things that are useful to other people.
      * The fascination of fashioning complex puzzle-like objects of interlocking moving parts.
      * The joy of always learning.
      * The delight of working in a tractable medium.
    * Other things:
      * Because it's a combination of intelligent and creative work.
      * Being some kind of nerdy superhero.
      * Nearly instant gratification.
      * The pride of seeing my work used by other people.
      * The thing about it that really hooks me is taking a machine that was designed for no purpose in particular and making it do anything I want.
      * The benefit that it brings to users in making their lives easier.<commit_msg>Improve blog post on who our customer is.<commit_after># Who is our customer?

_This is iteration 0._

We need to define our customer to narrow down the search criteria for who we
work with. Ideally our customer is everyone, but we can't initially work with
everyone.

## What is hackEDU club?

* A hackEDU retreat is a safe place from the rest of high school, to learn and
  build what you care about.
  * A hackEDU retreat embodies the following values:
    * **Radical Inclusiveness**
    * **Mutual Improvement**
    * **Radical Absurdity**
    * Our values result in the following effects:
      * Family
      * Safety
      * People doing what they care about
      * Being true to yourself
    * _Notes_
      * Radical Beginner Friendlyness
      * -
      * Radical Self Expression
      * Radical Customer Contentment
      * Mission is built on 
      * -
      * Celebrate Failure
        * Vulnerability
        * Growth Mindset
        * Empathy
      * Self Expression
        * Landmark Stuff
        * 4 Agreements Stuff
          * "domestication"
      * With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility
        * Why
        * Empathy
      * Discovery
        * Papert Discovery, Present About Things You've Learned
      * Forget it, Ship It
        * MVP
        * Design Thinking
        * Lean Startup
        * Agile Development
      * Don't Ask For Permission, Ask For Forgiveness
        * Agency, Courage
        * There are two kinds of people in the world: people who don't know
          what the hell they are doing and don't do anything, and people who
          don't know what the hell they are doing but do it anyway.
        * Daring Greatly
  * Notes
    * We might want to make the "with code" part explicit initially and then expand the scope later.

## Target Customers

### Target Organizers

* **Objective**: figure out where we can most effectively build great clubs
* Traits that we care about
  * Cares about people
  * Has a computer
  * Someone who comes to us
    * Intrinsically motivated
  * Initial strong seed
    * One of the leaders needs to be independently strong
      * Will bring other leaders up
      * Will set precedent for club

### Target Members

* Potential
  * want to build or break things or are currently building or breaking things with code
  * are interested in coding for job/college/etc possibilities and haven't seen how it's cool for other reasons yet
* Active members
  * What we don't want
    * Arrogance
    * People going because
      * the job/college/etc possibilities in the future
      * their parents told them to
  * want to build or break things with code
    * programming is cool, but it's hard and I haven't built a real project yet
  * currently building or breaking things with code
    * people who wan
  * are willing to visit club meetings

## Additional Notes

* Why is coding fun?
  * The Mythical Man-Month
    * The sheer joy of making things.
    * The pleasure of making things that are useful to other people.
    * The fascination of fashioning complex puzzle-like objects of interlocking moving parts.
    * The joy of always learning.
    * The delight of working in a tractable medium.
  * Other things:
    * Because it's a combination of intelligent and creative work.
    * Being some kind of nerdy superhero.
    * Nearly instant gratification.
    * The pride of seeing my work used by other people.
    * The thing about it that really hooks me is taking a machine that was designed for no purpose in particular and making it do anything I want.
    * The benefit that it brings to users in making their lives easier.
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