[HacktionLab] Steelcon 2023 (was: Thoughts on where we could go now with HL)

[Mike Harris]

Sounds great Chris, but no tickets left unless I try going as a kid :(

I didn't know it was on tbh.

Would you be up for doing a short review of it back to the group?

Mike.

On 20/06/2023 11:51, Chris Clemson wrote:
> 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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