[HacktionLab] Some workshop ideas written up

[Naomi]

That is some great feedback, thank you! I don't have any immediate 
thoughts myself but just wanted to say that!

On 28/06/2023 10:06, Cat wrote:
> 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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