Sounds interesting!
I spent all of 2009 basically researching web design, front-end and back-end
web development, content strategy, information architecture, user experience
engineering, typography, and any other little bit I could find about what goes
into a website.
I could even do a talk about what kinds of skills go into the design of a large
website.
I’m just a bit rusty at the moment. I was doing some other reading through
2010, but then I haven’t done much since 2011. I’m slowly picking things up
again, and nearly completed my latest collection of 720p font specimens.
From: Justin Lacko
Sent: Tuesday, April 23, 2013 12:11 PM
To: Discuss, SkullSpace
Subject: Re: [SkullSpace-Discuss] Thanks
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]>
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