[HacktionLab] Some workshop ideas written up

[Cat]

Hi all

Some late feedback on Hacktionlab :-)  Thanks to every one involved in
putting it on! I met some new people and it was great to exchange ideas.

However, I'm not super sure that the fluid unconference style worked as
well as it could have done. I can see the format working well for an event
where all attendees will definitely be on site from the start to the end of
the event, but it didn't work so well within a city. I'd originally planned
to do a talk collaboratively with a friend who wasn't able to spare the
whole weekend, but as the timeslot kept changing, he wasn't able to make
it. I also had friends within the city who wanted to come and see my talks,
but couldn't for the same reason.

I'd be interested to hear what the list sees as specific benefits of the
unconference format over a more stable format.

Thanks
Cat

On Thu, 22 Jun 2023 at 12:44, m3shrom <m3shrom at riseup.net> wrote:

> Hi there,
>
> I want to echo the praise for the weekend and the organisers.
>
>  I really enjoyed it . :)
>
> Let's share useful docs on unconferences.
>
> This one seems good.
> https://20bedfordway.com/news/how-to-run-an-unconference/
>
> My personal additions would be something like...
>
> - keep nudging people to share ideas - even tentative - in the week before
> the event
> - have different sizes of post it notes / slips - to indicate duration /
> scope of proposal
> - print off descriptions from the wiki to help people decide with more
> detail what they want to go to
> - have as big a space as possible for slots to - encouraging collaborating
> on a session
> - experiment with different streams in different rooms, some very
> technical, some more political / non-exclusive tech, some totally different
> (especially outside)
> - don't worry too much about how many people will go to each one or
> clashes, have decisions around huddles that you can pull workshop
> facilitators into
> nice one
> Mick
>
> On 22/06/2023 11:08, Ben Green wrote:
>
> I did a page on workshop formatting:
>
> https://hacktionlab.org/index.php?title=Workshops_for_HacktionLab_Formatting_Notes
> And also a generic workshop page as I wanted to write stuff down I'd
> though of:
> https://hacktionlab.org/index.php?title=Workshops_for_HacktionLab
>
> Any chance of the getting Mediawiki upgraded so we have better editing?
> "VisualEditor" is built in now. I know there was also talk of replacing it
> with something else.
> Cheers,
> Ben
>
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