[HacktionLab] hacktionlab this summer

Mike Harris mike at mbharris.co.uk
Fri Aug 22 06:21:47 UTC 2014


Hi Lukas,

A rather belated response here, but thinking about a hacktionlab 
gathering in perhaps November or even early December: would there still 
be the possibility of coming back to Bradford?

Cheers,

Mike.

A 2014-03-21 13:07, Lukas Hornby escrigué:
> Hi Mick,
> 
> Good to hear this is on the table again.
> 
> I'd like to tentatively put forward Bradford as a destination. With
> the 1in12 Club (previous history of hacktionlab-like events, some tech
> laying around waiting to be used, bot accessible building though) and
> the Bradford Resource Centre (larger, accessible) being potential
> venues.
> 
> I'd have to run it past both building groups for use as a venue (which
> I don't see being a problem) but crash space in-situ is, as often in a
> city contentious which fire reg etc., less likely. But I'm sure we
> could with nearby friendly houses (including the Hive Housing Coop
> where I live).
> 
> Cheers,
> Lukas
> 
> On 21 March 2014 12:56, Mick Fuzz <mickfuzz at clearerchannel.org> wrote:
> 
>> Hi there,
>> 
>> I've just been having a chat with Mike about a couple of things.
>> One of
>> the things that came up was about doing a summer hacktionlab
>> instead of
>> a Barncamp at highbury farm.
>> 
>> The main difference being that it isn't in a Barn and there isn't
>> food
>> provided for all meals. So it's in a location where people can
>> still
>> stay somewhere for cheap. ie Camping or crash space. But it's close
>> to
>> cheap places to get food too.
>> 
>> The real aim here is to make it a lot less work to organise as
>> there are
>> some key people from Bristol who can't help with the production
>> anymore.
>> And they were invaluable to making Barncamp what it was.
>> 
>> We had a couple of ideas of a good venue to do it but thought it
>> was a
>> good idea to ask for help.
>> As some people on the list might have some great suggestions.
>> 
>> So do people any ideas based on the above? Maybe a camping barn
>> near a
>> village where they allow camping? A town with good meeting pace and
>> crash space. A city where you can camp (not Manchester!), a
>> friendly
>> college or uni?
>> 
>> As I said there's a couple of ideas we have in case this request
>> falls
>> on it's arse - but hopefully this will start a kind of bidding war
>> offering fantastic venues one after the other?
>> 
>> nice one,
>> Mick
>> 
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