What can the third sector learn from hack events..?

We in the third sector could really benefit from get together's on specific topics to make sure we're still doing them in the best way.

• #leedshack today was one such example. 
• Another is Mike Chitty's Leeds Child Poverty innovation camp on the 19th October 2011.

So i'm going to get on with inviting people from outside the voluntary sector to the York voluntary sector strategic forum and have an overnight hack-athon on social issues. Existing orgs would buy pizza and provide a room & broadband for £50 - it would be like the fairness commission but a proper discussion.

• We could take it further and use it to genuinely design new services with the people who use them.
• We could invite people from local government not as representatives of anything, but as human beings wishing to service the public.

York CVS's work so far with the business community shows me there needs to be much better understanding, and it needs to be built on equal footings. No one has to say that what exists right now is the best that is could possibly be, and problems are going up and capability is going down.
Anyone who wants to be part of the solution should be welcomed..? No one can do this on their own..