Yah ... we'll do another one sometime in the first half of next year with more notice ... this one sorta came together semi last minute due to some Hanson-cog stuff, and then I figured why not invite other OpenCoggers in case someone is available...
Actually I'd been thinking to do a Cogathon in Ethiopia (halfway between the US and HK, close to Europe, and we have an office there too), but it seems best to wait for that till the politics settles down there at the moment ... currently e.g. the gov't seems to have made mobile Internet access very difficult (whereas it used too be fine in the cities) As for interactions w/ remote folks -- definitely it makes sense to stream the seminars and to record better videos than was done last time.... However, beyond the seminars, where a general "hackathon-type" event is concerned, it strikes me that mixing F2F with online modalities may not be that wise. The beauty of F2F is that we can discuss stuff while walking to lunch, and can mess around with the AI on the Hanson robots with minimal hassle, etc. etc. ... There's pretty much no way to share that experience with remote folks, and constraining F2F folks to do stuff that can easily be shared in real time w/ remote folks doesn't make much sense... However, it does strike me that it would be possible and interesting to do some sort of "purely online Cogathon" at some point, as a separate event.... Delivering seminar or tutorial type content via live video-chat is not difficult, and collaborative coding via Github and Slack/MatterMost/whatever would work perfectly well.... I like this idea more than trying to too fully online-ify a F2F event.... I think a purely online Cogathon could work great if both "insiders" and newbies decided to put time into it.... Perhaps we should try that after this upcoming F2F cogathon and before the next F2F one... ben On Sat, Oct 29, 2016 at 5:16 AM, Matt Chapman <[email protected]> wrote: > I wish that had been announced sooner. 4 weeks notice is a bit short to get > 2 weeks off work. > > +1 for supporting remote participants. If I can figure out a way to make it > in person, I'm willing to take responsibility for trying to help make that > happen... > > All the Best, > > Matt > > -- > Standard Disclaimer: > Please interpret brevity as me valuing your time, and not as any negative > intention. > > On Fri, Oct 28, 2016 at 5:18 AM, Ben Goertzel <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> We crazy Hong Konger OpenCog/Hansonites be at it again ... Nov 28-Dec 9 >> ... >> >> http://opencog.org/2016/10/hong-cog-a-thon-dec-2016/ >> >> http://wiki.opencog.org/w/Hong_Cogathon_Dec_2016 >> >> -- >> Ben Goertzel, PhD >> http://goertzel.org >> >> “I tell my students, when you go to these meetings, see what direction >> everyone is headed, so you can go in the opposite direction. Don’t >> polish the brass on the bandwagon.” – V. S. Ramachandran >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "opencog" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/opencog. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/opencog/CACYTDBdTaQBp%3D9%3D1KSfZ0VGBHkj%2B%3DS8L3p56kq2BErAYvP3A3w%40mail.gmail.com. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "opencog" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/opencog. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/opencog/CAPE4pjA53u2%3Dq33ki__L7tFpOQRk-FZRx2__S9hd-jE8pjtORw%40mail.gmail.com. > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- Ben Goertzel, PhD http://goertzel.org “I tell my students, when you go to these meetings, see what direction everyone is headed, so you can go in the opposite direction. Don’t polish the brass on the bandwagon.” – V. S. Ramachandran -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "opencog" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/opencog. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/opencog/CACYTDBdDmFPSYwZkXjFBB92c6z4OoY9-nAkDF6jU%2BqYx0C2WhA%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
