[HacktionLab] Entertainments

[JimDog]

Hey. Totally agree, i'll be bringing my acoustic guitar along too :-)

i was thinking more for in the barn, like any jukebox if noone wants to listen to anything, then nothing will be on. I think it's a great idea to keep the sanctity of the campfire like last year, i really enjoyed that. Then we're kind of giving people the choice as to whether they want to party it up or have a bit of a quiet one.

Open to suggestion though, was just a thought :-)

jimdog

 

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Subject: Re: [HacktionLab] Entertainments
From: Garcon du Monde <gdm at fifthhorseman.net>
Date: 27/04/2010 7:44 pm

On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 05:35:47PM +0100, JimDog wrote:
> Hey all.
> 
> Been giving entertainments some thought and wanted to share some ideas. For the saturday night, i wanted to put a call out for any campers who can do a live set of some kind (especially some kind of electronic set), which i'll do a bit nearer the time once people start signing up.
> 
> I was thinking about the friday night where people are likely to be more wanting a social time of it and had an idea. When i was building the jukebox for the one in 12, i came across quite a few network based linux jukebox servers. Basically, instead of paying for songs to be played, people on the network kind of vote for the ones they want to hear, with the most popular choices getting priority.
> 
> This is cool on the whole political thing about the camp and what it's about no?
> 
> So i was thinking, if people brought some tunes in whatever format along, we could set this up maybe as a workshop on the friday, leave some access terminals (we can use the northern laptops for this) with web browsers pointed at the server around the barn and have a 'democratic disco' on the friday night?
> 
> Anyone else think this is a good idea?

just a quick comment, but one of the reasons i loved the hacktionlab
last year was the ability to sit outside around a camp fire listening
to people play *real* musical instruments, sing songs and tell
stories. i personally think that electronic anything (music, jukebox,
etc) should be banned from the entire event, but i guess some people
would disagree. a compromise could be to allow it in the bar (well,
obviously, as that's where the electricity mostly is) but to make sure
it doesn't "intrude" on the campfire space. however, i would prefer
that one night is acoustic only - perhaps people will even have built
their own instruments that they might bring along and play??

solidarity,

	--gdm