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Revision as of 23:30, 1 March 2023
The following is a list of workshop ideas and suggestions for the forthcoming HacktionLab Summer 2023 taking place in June in Sheffield, UK. The *Nerd gag* measures how technical and jargony the session might be, from "on tight" being accessible to all, to "ungagged" being no-holes-barred tech talk. In the middle there's "breathing room" and "rather loose".
Session times
TBC, but here’s a guide…
Friday
- 9.30 - 11.00 - Sessions
- 11.00 - 11.30 - Break
- 12.00 - 13.30 - Sessions
- 13.30 - 14.30 - Lunch
- 14.30 - 15.30 - Session
- 15.30 - 16.00 - Break
- 16.00 - 17.00 - Sessions
Saturday
- 9.30 - 11.00 - Sessions
- 11.00 - 11.30 - Break
- 12.00 - 13.30 - Sessions
- 13.30 - 14.30 - Lunch
- 14.30 - 15.30 - Session
- 15.30 - 16.00 - Break
- 16.00 - 17.00 - Sessions
Sunday
- 10.00 - 11.00 - Sessions
- 11.00 - 12.00 - Brunch
- 12.00 - 13.00 - Session
- 13.00 - 13.30 - Break
- 13.30 - 14.30 - Sessions
Types of Sessions
- Talk: 30-60 mins - please say if you need a projector / screen etc
- Workshops: typically 60 mins - let us know your requirements
- Skill Share Sessions: typically 60 mins - hands on in collaboration with others around a theme
- Round Table Discussions: typically 60 mins - around a theme
- Lightning Talks: typically 5-10 mins - these may be themed together or at random
Example
Title of workshop?
- Format
- talk / workshop (interactive) / skills share / round table / lighting talk
- Proposed by
- Your name
- Length
- 30-60 minutes, 5-15 for a lighting talk
- Equipment
- projector, speakers, paper, pens, posits, chairs, etc
- Description
- a description of the workshop
- Nerd gag
- How much technical background will people need to be able to follow the session? Nerd gag measures how technical and jargony the session might be, from "on tight" being accessible to all, to "ungagged" being no-holes-barred tech talk. In the middle there's "breathing room" and "rather loose".
Reflective & Philosophical
Objectivism for Lefties: a look at Ayn Rand’s writings and philosophy
- Format
- talk
- Proposed by
- Mike
- Length
- 30-40 mins plus discussion
- Equipment
- projector, maybe speakers
- Description
- The Russian-American author Ayn Rand was a controversial character in her lifetime and still is today. Very much not a natural bed-fellow of the left, this talk looks at who she was, her novels and other writings, and attempts to take a nuanced look at her World-view and whether there's something useful that can be learned from it.
- Nerd gag
- on tight
Emergent Technologies
Alternative Internet: the Fediverse and peer-2-peer
2023 - the year twitter died
Is there a reason for twitter to exist anymore ?
Will a federated social media protocol finally displace the normies
is this a good thing ?
Programming and other nerding
The HTML 5 <canvas> element as seen through a fractal eye: a brief introduction
- Format
- talk
- Proposed by
- Mike
- Length
- 45 mins
- Equipment
- projector
- Description
- A revamp of an acclaimed talk on the Mandelbrot and Julia sets, first given at BarnCamp in 2011 and recently updated for the Wizard Amigos Code Camp at the Astral Ship in Autumn 2022. The talk looks at the maths behind complex numbers and the Mandelbrot and Julia sets and how we can transform it into Javascript code to render beautiful pictures in our web browsers. Bring your laptop and explore with us.
- Nerd gag
- ungagged