The document summarizes survey results from the pre-event and post-event surveys of TADHack, a hackathon event with participants in multiple locations. The pre-event survey showed that most participants were from Spain, India, and the Philippines. Most wanted to attend for networking, hands-on experience, and to understand latest telecom technologies. WebRTC, telecom APIs, and communications APIs were of most interest. The post-event survey indicated areas for improvement like WiFi issues and needing more publicity. Participants felt they got value and wanted more of things like satellite sessions, food, and prizes. Suggestions included a social event after prizes and mixing telecom novices with experts on teams

1. TADHack Pre-Event
and Post-Event
Survey Results

2. 2
Pre-Event Survey Category Questions

3. Spain, 49
Sri Lanka, 35
Mexico, 15
USA, 14
Hungary, 5
Slovakia, 2
Netherlands, 5
Belgium, 7
India, 6
Russia, 3
Philippines, 17
Nigeria, 2
Germany, 3
Tunisia, 2
UK, 5
Singapore, 2 Pakistan, 2
Japan, 3
Italy, 2 Brasil, 2 Canada, 2 Malaysia, 5
3
Pre-Event Results: Country were developer based

4. Pre-Event Results: How are you participating?
74
37
16
7
12
6
24
12
0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80
Madrid
Sri Lanka
Philippines
Malaysia
Chicago
Pune
Remotely
Just watching not participating
Total of 188 Responses

5. Pre-Event Results: What’s your Business?
35
75
16
4
16
18
24
Student
App Developer
Telco
Consulting
Platform Provider
System Integrator
Tech Vendor
Total of 188 Responses

6. 6
TADHack Specific Questions

7. 47
33
67
52
44
68
54
24
33
36
43
21
30
Fun / inspiration / motivation
Participation certificate
Networking / contacts / meet interesting people
Hands-on experience
New ideas / feedback on ideas
Understand latest telecom tech
Understand different APIs platforms / tech
Help raising money for start-up
Exposure to telecom world
Understand what's possible with telecoms / webRTC
Prizes
Meet new partners / recruits
New business opportunities
Pre-Event Results: Top 3 things you want
out of TADHack
Votes

8. 0
20
40
60
80
100
120
Very Interested
Interested
Not Interested
Pre-Event Results: View on Development Themes
Votes
Telecom APIs, WebRTC and Payment APIs were most interesting. With WebRTC being a “gateway
technology” for developers to discover the broader capabilities of Telecom APIs.

9. 9
Technology Questions

10. 10
42.6%
68.1%
44.7%
53.2%
48.9%
55.3%
51.1%
0.0%
10.0%
20.0%
30.0%
40.0%
50.0%
60.0%
70.0%
80.0%
Telecomappservers(incall
services)
TelecomAPIs
Communications(callingand
messaging)
TelecomAPIsPayments
TelecomAPIsProfile
(Location,deviceinfo,
subscriptioninfo)
FOSS(FreeandOpenSource
Software)
WebRTC
Developmenttools
Pre-Event Results: What Tech are of most interest
to your projects?
Communication APIs and WebRTC are top, but all technologies are considered relevant including the
development tools.

11. 11
Developer ONLY Questions

12. 12
Pre-Event Results: What developer communities are
you involved with? 45% of Developers Responded
0
2
4
6
8
10
12
14

13. 13
Pre-Event Results: How do you find business
27
19
26
19
17
20
Direct Sales / Contacts
Partners
Events
Open Source Communities
Dev Communities
Internet Sales
Votes

14. TADHack Post-Event
Survey Results

15. 18
7
3
1
2
1
6
2
0 2 4 6 8 10 12 14 16 18 20
Madrid
Sri Lanka
Philippines
Malaysia
Chicago
Pune
Remotely
Just watching not participating
Post-Event Results: How were you involved?
Total of 40 Responses
After the event, people are less motivated to provide feedback J.

16. 20
18
15
15
14
6
Wifi (Spain event)
More Publicity (all locations)
Clearer pitches
Better Deep Dives
Better sponsor tools
Fairer Competition
Post-Event Results: What is the one thing we
must do better?
Total of 40 Responses
In Madrid we had a WiFi problem, if we’re at the same location next year there will be fiber (we ended up
on LTE and ADSL). More publicity is clearly required. Fairer competition reflected the variety of hacks
being on show, which will be solved through grouping into 2 main categories of 24 hour hacks and a
service innovation showcase. We also had a couple of mentions of making the hacks clearer to
understanding – we need to ensure everyone follows a clear process in presenting their hacks.

17. Post-Event Results: What is the one thing we must
do more of?
Total of 35 Responses
People loved the satellites and want more on them, all locations generally liked the food. Though a couple
demanded pizza and beer as it was a hackathon. On Prizes most people liked that we gave many prizes,
through 20% would prefer 1 or 2 large prizes. My opinion is we keep the approach of lots of prizes to
encourage as many people as possible to contribute, the ones who would win the big prizes will likely make
it in the market anyway, so better we share the love.
12
11
11
11
9
9
Satellites
Great food
Global
Telecoms focus
Prizes
Great locations

18. Post-Event Results: Did you get what you hoped out
of TADHack?
Total of 40 Responses
Yes, this is a self serving chart, but it was nice to see we achieve 100% satisfaction even given
the hiccups and areas for improvement.
40
0
yes
no

19. 18
9
6
2
Social event after prizes
More telecom novices
X-Satellite teams
Better filtering of ptiches
Post-Event Results: What is missing from TADHack?
Votes
The most common feedback was the need for a social event after the prizes, people wanted to socialize
and share after the intense event. We should plan on some wrap-up event. Interestingly people wanted to
explore x-satellite teams, i.e. people in Madrid and Sri Lanka coding together on a hack. Other feedback on
team composition recommended mixing telecom novices and experts.

20. Post-Event Results: Other Satellite Locations
7
5
4
3
2
2
2
1
1
1
1
1
1
Mexico
Paris
Brasil
Amsterdam
Singapore
London
San Francisco
NYC / Boston
Bangalore
Dubai
Japan
Rome
Johannesburg