[HacktionLab] Some workshop ideas written up

[ekes]

Not a + or - for unconference perse, and while it is unfortunate that 
the friends of cat didn't get to see the presentations:
I do quite like events where people commit to turning up for at least a 
whole day. Events where people drop-in for a session or so never have 
the same atmosphere.

ekes

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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