It was great to have a themed Hackathon again and I am happy there were people out to listen to the talks we had! We were even fortunate enough to have Robert Elms from AssentWorks come down, and then give us a tour of AssentWorks. I think that was awesome. I can't remember the last time we had a guest speaker in.
Personally, I have found it increasingly difficult as an individual member to provide content to our userbase as it is highly computer/programmer-oriented. I can always think of a good number of friends that would be interested in joining but there's not enough of a support base (yet) for interests outside programming/crypto/security. The Hackathon that passed was my attempt to bring the "making" part of the hackerspace more to the forefront. Unfortunately, there was only one new guy who showed up! It seems if we had stronger partners in the city, that we may get some more people out. I mean keeping lines open with New Media Manitoba, for instance. Do any of our members consider themselves "designers?" I think we should have another Hackathon with lots of visuals, such as discussions on UI development, website development, typography, and design in general. I'd love to see a beginner's course on CSS, or HTML5. Quick things that came to my mind that are so simple: Ben talking about circuit board colours (5 mins!), Michael talking about fonts (he knows them so well), Jeremy talking about CSS/JS basics (I picked you just because), Rylaan and myself double-teaming a talk about dataviz, etc. etc. I think this could be a lot of fun! I think the next time too, if we're going to have a bake sale, we need to do it right. I'm not sure who organized the last one but it really felt like it fell through. I saw some timbits and Ron brought muffins, but that was about it... Anyways, maybe I'll say more at the meeting. All I'm getting at is that we should see how we can continue to make SkullSpace inclusive of the whole range of "hackers," from the programmers to the designers. On 23 April 2013 11:55, Brian Kulyk <[email protected]> wrote: > I think more people will come to these events if there is a theme or goal, > or at least more people who are new to the space. When there is a theme, > naming the day after the theme will make it more compelling. Ie, "Maker > Day", "Go Day", whatever. > > > Brian Kulyk > 204.887.6988 > > > On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 11:51 AM, Ace Tunes <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I agree that we should probably call it open day or something like that. >> I think it would target a wider audience. >> On 2013-04-23 11:18 AM, "Mak Kolybabi" <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> On 2013-04-23 16:14, Ian Trump wrote: >>> > 1. If you are a Programmer, or understand programming there is lots >>> > to do. If your a network security dude of mediocre skill your >>> > contributions can be financial and moral support until you learn >>> > something about programming. >>> >>> TIL http://www.grammarphobia.com/blog/2010/11/moral-morale.html >>> >>> -- >>> Mak Kolybabi >>> <[email protected]> >>> >>> () ASCII Ribbon Campaign | Against HTML e-mail >>> /\ www.asciiribbon.org | Against proprietary extensions >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> SkullSpace Discuss Mailing List >>> Help: http://www.skullspace.ca/wiki/index.php/Mailing_List#Discuss >>> Archive: https://groups.google.com/group/skullspace-discuss-archive/ >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> SkullSpace Discuss Mailing List >> Help: http://www.skullspace.ca/wiki/index.php/Mailing_List#Discuss >> Archive: https://groups.google.com/group/skullspace-discuss-archive/ >> > > > _______________________________________________ > SkullSpace Discuss Mailing List > Help: http://www.skullspace.ca/wiki/index.php/Mailing_List#Discuss > Archive: https://groups.google.com/group/skullspace-discuss-archive/ >
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