Our space is totally down for this, one question though I noticed on the page it lists Ustream links. We've had real success with Justin.tv, not so much with Ustream. Can we use that instead?<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">
On Mon, Nov 8, 2010 at 11:15 AM, Robert Fitzsimons <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:robfitz@273k.net">robfitz@273k.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
The upcoming November Synchronous Hackathon [1] will take place over the<br>
weekend of the 20th and 21st of November. It is also the one year<br>
anniversary of the first event. So after some discussions during recent<br>
call-in's we're going to try something a little different.<br>
<br>
The intention is to increase the inter-space activity by using the<br>
regular hackathon to run a BarCamp [2] style conference, along with<br>
friendly challenges and common activities. Using audio/video streaming,<br>
IRC and other internet resources for communication over the weekend.<br>
<br>
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BarCamp<br>
<br>
So for the BarCamp part we are asking spaces to come forward and stream<br>
a talk/class/whatever during a timeslot over the weekend. Most spaces<br>
run talks why not give one to an international audience?<br>
<br>
I've started collecting some details on the wiki page [1].<br>
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Challenge<br>
<br>
A little bit of friendly competition can spice things up. So we are<br>
asking spaces to form a team (or teams) and see if you can come up an<br>
interesting solution for the weekend challenge.<br>
<br>
The challenge should have multiple solutions, not cost much or need<br>
special equipment. Each team would report on their results in a blog<br>
post or webpage and if suitable a wining team could be picked, and have<br>
the honor of picking the next challenge.<br>
<br>
Our current idea for the first challenge would be for teams to come up<br>
with a way of transporting a delicious cupcake by post to another space<br>
without damage. We've just got to flesh out some basic ground rules<br>
type of postage allowed, max size, max weight, etc.<br>
<br>
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Common Activity<br>
<br>
This is fairly open-ended it could be something like a worldwide coding<br>
relay, shared story/song writing, a capture the flag, anything goes.<br>
Just pick a couple of activities to work on over the weekend and see<br>
what we come up with.<br>
<br>
Two activities I like to see worked on in November would be. Code or a<br>
system that would function as a video version of IRC which would help<br>
with following the activities during a hackathon. And a website and<br>
tools which could be used to track activities before, during and after<br>
the hackathon.<br>
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I think it'll be fun, so get your space involved. We can try and expand<br>
some of the details on this list.<br>
<br>
Robert<br>
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1. <a href="http://hackerspaces.org/wiki/Synchronous_Hackathon/2010-11-20" target="_blank">http://hackerspaces.org/wiki/Synchronous_Hackathon/2010-11-20</a><br>
2. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BarCamp" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BarCamp</a><br>
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