[HacktionLab] Thoughts on where we could go now with HL

[Chris Clemson]

Sounds good.

I like that someone remembered their category theory training at the top 
right of the notes :)

It was nice to meet you all and hope to join you again, thank you all 
for organising it!

Is anyone going to steelcon in a few weeks? I've got my ticket already.

look forward to the poll.


On 19/06/2023 22:04, Mike Harris wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> Thanks very much to Mick and Naomi for the session on Sunday morning 
> on "What next for HacktionLab?".  I took a photo of the notes:
>
> https://hacktionlab.org/index.php?title=File:What_Next_For_HacktionLab_June_2023_Notes.png 
>
>
> A feeling I came back with, and had also after Todmorden last year is 
> that the approach of returning to the HacktionLab format of holding 
> gatherings in different cities or other locations that the network is 
> invited to is what seems to work the most effectively. The last two 
> remind me of the HLs we had previously in Leeds, London, Bradford and 
> Oxford.
>
> This is a departure from this group doing either of these two things:
>
> - running an annual festival-like event
> - doing actual projects itself, such as the tech tools book and website
>
> I think the moving from place to place has legs.
>
> Something else that came up is that someone mentioned that the current 
> web site (wiki) is possibly a little bit vague about what HL actually 
> does.  The wiki is old and there's stuff on it from back in 2009.
>
> I therefore wonder if we had a poll to see whether we agree that the 
> principle purpose of this group is to hold annual (or more frequent) 
> gatherings in different locations around the UK to foment social, 
> political, professional, and skills-sharing networks, the sharing of 
> projects, the creation of a space for people to find out more about 
> and maybe join existing projects, and for people to do 'reverse 
> workshops' (milk the audience) and we agree that, then we could 
> perhaps update our website to state clearly that that is what we NOW do.
>
> We could then provide a "HOWTO host a HacktionLab" page that covers 
> what anyone who would like to have one in their location would need to 
> do.
>
> Cheers,
>
>
> Mike.
>
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