Sounds like a great idea to have a themed hackday. Really active Health community with http://www.meetup.com/Health-2-0-Manchester/ Recently they've been running Service Design workshops that would be a really good precursor to any future hackday. I'm sure Vim (spaceport) and the Service Design team could be persuaded to get involved. Perhaps the MSP Greenheys space that they run the workshops in could be utilised. Idalia Dawidowska, the organiser is really approachable.
I was talking to a local gov't backed organisation last week who are looking to finance 5k health projects, through a scheme they're trying to finalise. So perhaps that could be incorporated into a hackday i.e. continuation of the projects, rather than all the 'hacks' dieing off. Madlab has just been refurbished so that could be a good small venue if you think more 50-100 is likely. NHS Choices in Leeds are often at NWRUG so perhaps they'd have motivation to get involved also. hth and let me know if I can add anything or intro anyone. Cheers, Ian. ----- Original message ----- From: Paul Robinson <p...@iconoplex.co.uk> I could give a lot of advice here, but my knowledge is now date. It's best you make contact with people who have attempted to do this stuff before and more recently than most. Ian Forrester (@cubicgarden) and Gemma Cameron (@rubygem) are both worth speaking to. Good luck. On 18 May 2015 at 12:54, Alex Lynham <acelyn...@hotmail.com> wrote: > I would probably be interested in attending something like that... the > venue's going to prove a problem/costly though. Capacity is much > smaller but maybe madlab or spaceballs would give you some space to > run it? A > > LInk not working. > You mean: http://nhshackday.com/ > > > > Marcus Baw wrote: >> Hello NWRUGers >> >> I'm just sounding out for advice really about the prospect of running NHS Hack Day in Manchester in September/October this year? >> >> NHS Hack Day is a national, 'unofficial' NHS movement where clinical medical staff and developers work together over the weekend to solve problems of all kinds in health and social care. Everyone is a volunteer. www.nhshackday.org >> >> >> The kind of things I'd like advice on are: >> >> 1) what sort of venues would be suitable in the Central Manchester Area? (numbers are usually 150-250 people, we need *indestructible WiFi*, shelter from the elements and can work around most else) We thought about possibly MOSI, or asking one of the local hospital trusts to help by loaning us their conferencing facilities - apparently the Christie has good facilities in this regard. >> >> 2) any tips on engaging the local dev community outside of NWRUG? >> >> Marcus >> -- >> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "North West Ruby User Group (NWRUG)" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to nwrug-members+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send an email to nwrug-members@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nwrug-members. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
