A page to gather together ideas for the next BarnCamp in June 2013.

Overall themes

Overall ideas for theming the event, such as current trends, emerging technologies, etc.

Microslots (5-10 mins)

Oxford Geek Nights do these 5 minute things called microslots. Propose to have these once, or maybe twice, during the event. Format would be: stand up for 5 - 10 mins with slides if you wish and tell us about your self/project/org/thoughts/need for cash.

Proposals for Microslots:

Network23: what is it and why you need to run one?
Aktivix Email and Email lists
Call to get involved with FLOSS Manuals community
Create Booklets like Tech Tools for activism with Book Type software
About Encrypt your email with PGP course, Open badges & other courses on p2pu.org
Why Drupal is the bane of my web development life.

Workshops (1-2 hours)

These are workshops/talks of between one and two hours in length.

Your blog and on-line communities with Wordpress Networks

The idea of this workshop is to look at running your own blog running Wordpress' software whilst avoiding corporate providers, such as Wordpress.com. The workshop will have a special focus on a network of Wordpress sites, such as Network23.org, and how to build a community around this. We'll look at the differences between Wordpress.com, the commercial company, and Wordpress.org, the open source software; how to register your domain and set it up; an overview of managing your blog, with a focus on audio, video and networking tools; and finally a discussion and proposals for how to build a better community.

The workshop will be based around both a local install of multisite Wordpress so that people can create and play with their own blogs, as well as the online Network23.org service, where people are invited to bring their own domains with them to see how to link their web site address up to their blog. We'll use the FLOSS Manual pages for Wordpress and have some networked computers available to use.

Proposer: adelayde
Format: Hands-on workshop and discussion
Duration: 2 hours
Level of technical skill: beginner
Nerd factor: low (all though it is computer stuff)
Required: projector, local web server, Bristol Wireless computer suite, internet, bring yourself and your computer, and your own domain if you have one.

Part I: Introduction

Introduction to Wordpress.com and Wordpress.org and what the difference is.
What is multisite Wordpress (aka a Wordpress Network) and what is Network23.org?

Part II: Wordpress overview

Covering the main steps to get your site going from a vanilla site, including:

Site Settings
Themes
Pages
Blog Entries
Media
Links
Menu
Plugins

Part III: Your web address

Different naming schemes, using your own domain (e.g. www.mysite.com) vs using a sub domain (e.g. mysite.network23.org) vs using a sub-directory (e.g. network23.org/mysite).
What is a domain name? What are DNS servers, etc?
Registering your domain name: registrars, registrants, etc.
Differences between web forwarding, setting DNS servers, A records, CNAME records, IP addresses.
Domain mapping in Wordpress

Part IV: Wordpress Communities

Discussion on how we can better create a community around a site such as Network23.org. There are various tools, such as RSS, "Share Me" tools, BuddyPress, and of course mailing lists....

Introduction to Aquaponics

Proposer: Sean
Duration: 30 to 60 minutes
Level of technical skill: beginner
Nerd factor: low, non-vegetarian subject matter
Required: Projector

Urban farming is an experimental phase currently. Talking control of our food supply is almost as important as talking control of our own technologies in safeguarding our future freedom against encroaching Corportisaton in all aspects of our lives. Bristol fish project is a small part off this movement to see if we can close resource loops in urban areas and take steps to provide for ourselves.

CiviCRM

Proposer: Sean
Duration: One hour
Level of technical skill: Beginner
Nerd factor: beginner
Required: Projector

CiviCRM is a free tool to manage an organisation's contact database and it's relations with it's 'clients'.

CiviCRM is also an open source community that involves everyone from the very skilled developers to the completely uninitiated user in a team pulling together to improve communications for charities, community organisations, campaigns and anyone else seeking to organise to make changes for the better in society.

This is a brief overview of how it works to introduce the software from a user perspective.

Home brewing

Details to follow ....

Proposer: Laura
Duration
Level of technical skill
Nerd factor
Required

Overview of Online Organising Tools

Proposer: Mick Fuzz
Duration: 60 mins
Level of technical skill: none
Nerd factor: low
Required: wall & projector & net connection

This quick workshops maps the online organising and networking tools people are using, and begins discussions of easy of use, inclusiveness, security and data ownership issues in an accessible way designed to encourage us to try out new tools and share knowledge of well trusted ones.

Possible resources=== techtoolsforactivism.org & leaftlet hacktionlab.org https://www.tacticaltech.org/ - security in a box aktivix.org

Android Device Hacking

Proposer: acesabe
Duration: 60 mins
Level of technical skill: Beginner to advanced
Nerd factor: medium
Required: Projector (ideally) laptop and Android device to play with (optional for attendees)

Loads of us have Android devices now so lets find out a bit more about maximizing their potential, limiting the security pitfalls that come with them and learn more about just what useful things we can get these mini computers to do! It is unlikely we will do much physical rooting/flashing of devices as each device requires different methods/tools and needs careful reading up about first, but the theory and demonstration should be helpful.

Rooting your device to enable full control and install all those useful apps that require it
Installing ROMs like AOSP, CyanogenMod
De-google'ing your Android
Recovery
Share which useful apps people are using
ADB the Android debug bridge
Flash? brick? ROM? Kang? WTF?! Explanation of terms

Linux Command Line (Beginners)

Proposer: Woodsy
Duration: 60 mins
Level of technical skill: beginner
Nerd factor: medium
Required: laptop (for attendees)

Mark & myself did this as a two-hander a couple of yours ago and I was thinking of repeating the workshop along very similar lines.

Basic navigation
Finding help (man pages)
File/directory management
An introduction to command line programs, including:
- Web browsing
- Document/text editing
- IRC
- Command line media players
- Command line games

Cryptoparty

Proposer: Martin
Duration: Depends on needs, We could do an hour or possibly a longer session, will discuss
Level of technical skill: beginner
Nerd factor: medium
Required: laptop + net connection

A workshop based on cryptopartys that have been going on around the world. The idea is to make people aware and comfortable with the various encryption technologies we can use to protect ourselves from monitoring. The format is more of a discussion of the needs of people there and how to best use privicy tools for their needs

How to build your own telephone system

Proposer: John Cahill
Duration: 30 minutes
Level of technical skill: none
Nerd factor: Medium
Required: Projector
Description: How to set-up a telephone system using free and open source software.

Until a few years ago a handful of companies controlled the telephone system in both the UK and the rest of the world.
Telephone calls went over a pair of copper wires from your home to an "exchange" where electronic circuits switched these

calls depending on the phone number you required.

The numbers were issued and controlled by the same monopolies who owned the wires and the exchanges, with the blessing of governments.
The ability to make calls over the internet, (similar to skype), has thrown something of a spanner into the works.
It is now possible to build telephone systems entirely from free and open source software.
Because these systems are built to open standards they can talk to each other. i.e we can federate them.
I will demonstrate such a system and give a summary of how it works.

A people's bank

Proposer: John Cahill
Duration: 45 minutes
Level of technical skill: none
Nerd factor: Medium
Required: Projector
Description: A proposal for the establishment of a people's bank.

The mision: To establish a people's bank based on the principles of community, co-operation and mutualism.
I'm planning to kick off a project in May, (in Oxford) , called oxcred (see: oxcred.org.uk).
It is inspired by the TEM project in Volos, Greece. I will show a short documentary about this project.
It will use the free and open source cyclos banking software, (see cyclos.org).
I will discuss how this system will work in practice and demonstrate the cyclos banking software.

Get Evangelical with Ardour

Proposer: DJ One-Eye and MC Two-Hats
Duration: 60 minutes
Level of technical skill: none
Nerd factor: None
Required: Projector
Description: An early evening workshop to demonstrate how to use a laptop, soundcard, ardour and audio mixer, guitar and bongos, kazoo, turnups, jumpers to create evangelical music with "Free Software about Free Software".

Please bring poems and tunes to contribute.

Longer, half-day hack sessions (3-5 hours)

Sessions to be held on the Thursday or Friday that are 3-5 hours in length.

Anyone want to do an Android and/or Raspberry Pi hacking session? The latter may be more accessible. Perhaps up to 4 hours.
Mike could wheel out the old audio, streaming and internet radio workshops; but are there any takers?

Forest School

During Saturday and possibly Friday, we hope to run a Forest School on site for children and adults alike. The School will cover such things as making fires, building shelters, cooking food, tying knots and could culminate in a wild food walk where we forage for food.

More info on Forest Schools at http://www.forestschools.com/

Build your own DIY solar panel

Proposer: Martian and Gorditazz
Duration: 3hours
Level of technical skill: Low
Nerd factor: Low
Required: Big table, soldering iron, silicon, cells, old double glazing windows, spatulas, tapping wire, coating (q-sil)
Description: We will show people how to build their own small solar panel (less than 10w) which we can later use for solar powered night lighting or maybe even charge your phone. As time/space/materials are limited we will be only able to focus on small panels but we will do an overview on how to build a 80/100watts panel. The idea being that once you've learnt the method to make a small one and understand how it works you can build a bigger one by using a bigger window, more cells and a more powerful battery.

We will be getting cells from Demand Energy Equality and following their tutorial and expect advice.

Please note that as resources aren't free, we will be asking for some small money contribution to cover costs if you want to build your own one to take home. Amount still to be confirmed.

Events and entertainment ideas

Stuff to do in the evenings. Llanos is co-ordinating organising the events. Current plan:

We'll have the fireside and poetry: story telling and acoustic music most welcome.
Thursday night: round the camp fire.
Friday night: film night in the main Barn. Please get in touch with Llanos if you'd like to play any short films or documentaries that night. It can be anything not necessarily political as long as we agree on it to be relevant or worth showing.
Saturday night: open-mic, stand-up, DJs in the main Barn: DJ Marcus (Village Disco, Dubrovnik..) confirmed. Please get in touch for any requirement you might have if you are thinking on performing and we'll do our best to get you setup.
Table tennis table, bats a balls confirmed from Thursday to Sunday courtesy of Bristol ping pong Parlour.
FreeJamming with Ardour

Food

Anything else

Anything else you can think of.

Areas for production aspects

(adelayde)

Areas that need sorting I can think are:

workshop spaces (acesabe): tables, chairs, pens, flip charts, plug sockets, projectors, screens, laptops, structures
toilets (farm): straw bales, tarps, structures, lighting, loo roll.
kitchen (becky/sam): food, tea and coffee, structure, cooking equipment, washing up facilities, crokery and cutlery
fire (woodsy): fire pit, wood, fire extinguishers, etc.
site (farm): flat land for camping, proximity to toilets, fire precautions, sign-posting, transport
welcome desk (adelayde/patrice): table, chairs, pens, booking system, finance and payments, contact telephone numbers, volunteers
workshop/barncamp/hack session planning (m3shrom)
ents (gorditazz): stage or no stage, sound system, DJs, campfire entertainment, etc.
bar (higgsy/marsbard): beer, cider, soft drinks, float, cashbox, physical bar space, staffing.
infrastructure (acesabe): on-site internet and wifi, ethernet cabling, mains cabling
promotion: (adeladye/m3shrom) graphic design and concept, flyers and posters, web site, distribution of materials, mailing to lists, promotion at other events, getting the word out there generally.

BarnCamp 2013 ideas scratchpad

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