[Sorvi-admin] Hackdays

[Leo Lahti]

> We were provided the opportunity to reserve 20 person hackspace for the
> whole Tuesday, or for a couple hours. So we should have extra space if
> needed (and if we can request this soon). We would like to keep the event
> light-weight and expecting 5-10 participants. The best option would
> definitely be to join forces.
>
> OK, well in that case we should be fine with the MAKE and HACK space we
> already have if you want to free up the second hackspace as we're expecting
> max 50 for the other streams.
>

Ok, I will inform them the we do not need this extra space.



Joining in and helping with advertising would be just fine! However, if you
> could join in a call or two just so we can confirm a rough timetable for
> the day and how we want things to work e.g. are ideas submitted in advance,
> when/if to have lightning talks, how to bring in remote participants, main
> mode of communication (irc, etherpads, other) that would be fantastic. OKFN
> people can sort the logistics/equipment/infrastructure etc etc but it would
> be good to get your feedback and experience and ensure everyone is up to
> date with how things will run on the day.
>
Let me know when you've discussed with the others if you want to fix this
> and we'll try and pin down a time for a quick chat in August soon.
>

Great - let's fix this. I would love to join skype planning meeting. I will
be available from August 6 onwards, and I can ask if the other people from
the Louhos team would like to join, too.

Thanks!

Leo




> The hack is on Tuesday and any help you can offer with the local media
>> would be very much appreciated for the hack itself and the open research
>> and education stream.
>>
>
> Great, we could have a look at this.
>
>
>
>> I'll try and set up a hack day planning call with Sam, Laura, yourself
>> and anyone else who is involved when Laura is back from India mid-August
>> and we can talk in more detail about on the day logistics and how to handle
>> remote participation, which we're encouraging
>>
>
> Great. I will still need to check the overall plans with the other guys
> (in cc) before we fix this. Let's return to this soon.
>
>
> Thanks!
>
> Leo
>
>
>
>
>>
>>> best regards
>>> Leo,
>>> postdoc, Netherlands / Finland
>>>
>>>
>>> On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 3:42 PM, Jenny Molloy <jcmcoppice12 at gmail.com>wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi Sam
>>>>
>>>> The Open Science hackday is Tuesday, School of Open is Wednesday so
>>>> still happy to join forces - let me know :)
>>>>  http://science.okfn.org/okfest/open-science-hackday/
>>>>
>>>> Jenny
>>>> On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 10:11 AM, Sam Leon <sam.leon at okfn.org> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hi All,
>>>>>
>>>>> My misunderstanding, I thought that your hack was also on the Tuesday,
>>>>> so sounds like it would still be best to keep them separate.
>>>>>
>>>>> All the best,
>>>>> Sam
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 9:49 AM, Jane Park <
>>>>> janepark at creativecommons.org> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> We are actually having a hack/workshop session for School of Open on
>>>>>> Wed afternoon titled, "Open Peer Learning: School of Data and School of
>>>>>> Open". See:
>>>>>> http://okfestival.org/topic-stream-open-research-and-education/.
>>>>>> There will be developing of challenges on how to "open" things, or
>>>>>> implement "open" tools into daily practices across various fields of
>>>>>> interest. That might fit? But perhaps not in terms of scheduling..
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Best,
>>>>>> Jane
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 4:16 PM, Sam Leon <sam.leon at okfn.org> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Hi All,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I was just wondering are you organising a hackday on the Tuesday of
>>>>>>> OKFest?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> If so, would there like to collaborate and perhaps join forces with
>>>>>>> the Open Cultural Heritage stream?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> There seems like a great deal of cross-over between the kinds of
>>>>>>> tools to be developed. I imagine tools for working with bibliographic
>>>>>>> references being particularly important.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Currently we have a group of Italian developers who want who are
>>>>>>> working on semantic annotation tools for use in teaching and research such
>>>>>>> as http://thepund.it and some interest from Finnish cultural
>>>>>>> heritage institutions wanting to open up their data specifically for the
>>>>>>> hackathon.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> What are your thoughts?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> All the best,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Sam
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> --
>>>>>>> Sam Leon
>>>>>>> Community Coordinator
>>>>>>> Open Knowledge Foundation
>>>>>>> http://okfn.org/
>>>>>>> Twitter: @noeL_maS
>>>>>>> Skype: samedleon
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> --
>>>>>> Jane Park
>>>>>> http://creativecommons.org/about/people/#janepark
>>>>>>
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>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>> Sam Leon
>>>>> Community Coordinator
>>>>> Open Knowledge Foundation
>>>>> http://okfn.org/
>>>>> Twitter: @noeL_maS
>>>>> Skype: samedleon
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>
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