BarnCamp 2011 Hack Session Proposals
This page is for adding Hack session proposals for future BarnCamp-style events and will most likely be used to develop the work sessions to take place during BarnCamp 2011.
Hack sessions are an opportunity for people to getting together and work on a bigger project. The project could be a technical one, or it could be about strategy, writing, design, building something, whatever.
We use the term 'Hack' because it a more playful way of exploring a subject than a Work Session. For us here, to Hack is to playfully break apart something to help to understand it more. It's primarily thought that it's a chance for a group of people to be all together in the right space at the same time and get share knowledge of something.
A hack session might last somewhere between four hours and a whole day, and could lead to ongoing work throughout the rest of the BarnCamp event, should those involved wish to do so.
For BarnCamp 2011, the work sessions are scheduled to take place on Friday 10th June.
Template
Copy and use the following template to describe your work session proposal:
Title of Work Session
- Proposed by
- put your name or alias here
- Type/Field
- programming, design, strategy, writing, editing, sustainability, 12 volt, cooking, whatever really.
- Duration
- put time in minutes, e.g. 45 mins
- Required space
- e.g. indoor, outdoor, field, barn, river
- Facilities
- say whether you need computers, a projector, a sledge hammer, etc.
- Description
- say something about your workshop in this space, write as much or as little as you like at this present time.
Yep, I'm interested
- edit this page
- and add your name to
- the list of those interested
- in the session
Proposals
IndyLive
- Proposed by
- adelayde@oximc
- Skill sets
- programmers, designers, journalists, strategists
- Duration
- four hours minimum
- Required space
- indoor/barn
- Facilities
- we'd need internet access, a flip chart and some computers.
- Description
- recently Oxford IMC has been playing about with an special "indylive" page to cover events. This page does the controversial act of pulling a live Twitter feed in to it. We'd like to take it further and produce a template for it to use at a UK level. Let's have a workshop to discuss what we can do, privacy and political issues that may come up, and get down to some coding to get a reasonable prototype running. The current prototype is at Oxford IMC at http://ox4.org/~oimc/index.php
Penguin addition - Here's the code (I did throw it together very quickly - I'm not proud of it!). http://oximc.org.uk/live.tar.gz
Yep, I'm interested
- adelayde
- penguin
- chickpea
IMC using Drupal
- Proposed by
- adelayde@oximc & m3shrom
- Skill sets
- programmers, designers, users, journalists, strategists
- Duration
- four hours minimum, but probably a day would be good.
- Required space
- indoor/barn
- Facilities
- we'd need internet access, a flip chart and some computers.
- Description
- A look at Drupal 6 and 7 to see how it can work in a IMC / Aggregation context.
Recently Oxford IMC has decided to move to a new CMS to run it's site. Currently, having discussed and put aside Mir, Hyperactive, Joomla, Wordpress and Occailt, we've plumped for Drupal. We done a bit of work on this, but if we could gather together a load of people with Drupal and PHP experience in the same place to exchange ideas, hold hands, do quick masterclasses and mainly hack together a working Drupal IMC, that'd be fantastic.
Also there has been a lot of activity using a Drupal 6 Aggregation Code base developed by ekes which pulls in a content from other sources and presents them flexibly by content type, source (location) and subject tags. This has been given a fresh theme and is online http://bethemedia.org.uk . We'll look under the bonnet to see how this site is created and hack about and tweak it to get a better working understanding of it.
Yep, I'm interested
- adelayde
- penguin
- chickpea
- mick