Re: [PD] Fwd: PDCon (was Updated pd-extended)
On Sun, Nov 30, 2014 at 9:19 PM, Chris McCormick ch...@mccormick.cx wrote: Hi Charles, Sorry for the slow reply. Things are madness at the moment in my neck of the woods. It's no problem at all. This takes some creative problem-solving to pin down. Any input you have, in the time you have, is just great. This sounds great! I would use existing infrastructure (website/registration) - for a barcamp type of thing it's traditional to use a wiki, which has a very low barrier to entry. I guess you could even use the pure-data.info site and just create a wiki page on there somewhere. Probably the most important bit will be marketing or in normal people language reminding everyone about it over and over again. Don't forget to post on the pure-data forum too. What we want is a logical structure that takes participants from posting ideas, gathering support or collaboration, doing the work, to writing documentation or publication. But the process may be very different depending on the content--someone may want to host a workshop, present a paper, perform a composition, create an installation ( or even something entirely different). Instead of a review process, maybe we could settle on semi-supervision or voluntary leadership? I don't have the whole picture in my head yet--I'm the sort of person who needs the big picture. I can't take the first step, until I know what the last step is going to look like. But I hope to have something exact to propose soon (and a prototype of some web space to try out). Seems like there is a lot to talk about in Pd-world at the moment. Miller has created new stuff in recent versions that hasn't been talked about much on this list and it would also be cool to get an overview from the Pd-l2ork guys on their innovations. Then there is libpd, and there are always implementation talks too on how people are using Pd in the wild. I will not be able to make it to the USA in June (second child on the way) but your plan sounds solid and if you get enough interested people it should be excellent. Let me know if there is any small way I can help beyond promotion! Cheers, Chris. My best wishes to your growing family! I will look forward to meeting you in person, some other time, and I'll keep in touch about how the process goes. Chuck On 26/11/14 14:37, Charles Z Henry wrote: Hey Chris, I've kept talking to folks around Lawrence about organizing a kind of Pd Con here, and the more I think about it, I just keep coming back to your bar camp idea. It's pretty on--just the format for some events needs to be a bit different from other bar camps I think. #1 2: Lawrence, KS, 3rd week of June? #3: There's some cheap accomodations and some fancy digs alike, and I think we can find a way to line up couch surfing for those who prefer it #4: We still need a website and registration... but the CFP can look very different. I have been advised to ask venues to participate in early January. About that time, it should be possible to know what/how many performances will be possible. I hope it's not too late to toss the idea around. You can't plan for spontaneity--but maybe you can structure for it. The idea is for folks interested to bring some work (maybe complete or in progress) and nominate/bid for time slots to talk about it. The task is really to make enough space for everyone who wants to be there. On Sun, Sep 28, 2014 at 10:56 PM, Chris McCormick ch...@mccormick.cx wrote: Hello, Random self-organising PdCon architecture idea: 1. Pick a location that matches the following criteria: * Not too expensive to fly/get to for majority of people. * Somewhere where bulk accommodation is cheap (e.g. camp site). * Located close to amenities so people can organise their own food etc. 2. Pick a date. 3. Crowd-fund from this community the cost of hiring a large-ish camp style venue in that location for a few days or a week. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BarCamp 4. Run bar camp style self-organizing PdCon where participants nominate their own talks for the various time slots of the conference on a wiki such as a page on the pure-data.info site. With regards to (1) there must be suitable places in the USA that meet these criteria (although big cities like NY seem to be out) but it would also be fun to find a large venue somewhere like Bali or Manila or a small town in India (Hyderabad seems to have particularly cheap flights for some reason), Chile, rural Italy etc. The Southeast Asia region looks particularly attractive from a flight-cost point of view and amenities would generally be very cheap. Obviously it would need to be reasonably well connected so people can actually get there without too much expense/hassle. Where are the hidden gems that match this criteria? Self-organising conference by a group of Pure Data nerds in a place none of us has been before - what could possibly go wrong? ;)
Re: [PD] Fwd: PDCon (was Updated pd-extended)
+1 Mexico City ;) On Sun, Nov 30, 2014 at 10:19 PM, Chris McCormick ch...@mccormick.cx wrote: Hi Charles, Sorry for the slow reply. Things are madness at the moment in my neck of the woods. This sounds great! I would use existing infrastructure (website/registration) - for a barcamp type of thing it's traditional to use a wiki, which has a very low barrier to entry. I guess you could even use the pure-data.info site and just create a wiki page on there somewhere. Probably the most important bit will be marketing or in normal people language reminding everyone about it over and over again. Don't forget to post on the pure-data forum too. Seems like there is a lot to talk about in Pd-world at the moment. Miller has created new stuff in recent versions that hasn't been talked about much on this list and it would also be cool to get an overview from the Pd-l2ork guys on their innovations. Then there is libpd, and there are always implementation talks too on how people are using Pd in the wild. I will not be able to make it to the USA in June (second child on the way) but your plan sounds solid and if you get enough interested people it should be excellent. Let me know if there is any small way I can help beyond promotion! Cheers, Chris. On 26/11/14 14:37, Charles Z Henry wrote: Hey Chris, I've kept talking to folks around Lawrence about organizing a kind of Pd Con here, and the more I think about it, I just keep coming back to your bar camp idea. It's pretty on--just the format for some events needs to be a bit different from other bar camps I think. #1 2: Lawrence, KS, 3rd week of June? #3: There's some cheap accomodations and some fancy digs alike, and I think we can find a way to line up couch surfing for those who prefer it #4: We still need a website and registration... but the CFP can look very different. I have been advised to ask venues to participate in early January. About that time, it should be possible to know what/how many performances will be possible. I hope it's not too late to toss the idea around. You can't plan for spontaneity--but maybe you can structure for it. The idea is for folks interested to bring some work (maybe complete or in progress) and nominate/bid for time slots to talk about it. The task is really to make enough space for everyone who wants to be there. On Sun, Sep 28, 2014 at 10:56 PM, Chris McCormick ch...@mccormick.cx wrote: Hello, Random self-organising PdCon architecture idea: 1. Pick a location that matches the following criteria: * Not too expensive to fly/get to for majority of people. * Somewhere where bulk accommodation is cheap (e.g. camp site). * Located close to amenities so people can organise their own food etc. 2. Pick a date. 3. Crowd-fund from this community the cost of hiring a large-ish camp style venue in that location for a few days or a week. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BarCamp 4. Run bar camp style self-organizing PdCon where participants nominate their own talks for the various time slots of the conference on a wiki such as a page on the pure-data.info site. With regards to (1) there must be suitable places in the USA that meet these criteria (although big cities like NY seem to be out) but it would also be fun to find a large venue somewhere like Bali or Manila or a small town in India (Hyderabad seems to have particularly cheap flights for some reason), Chile, rural Italy etc. The Southeast Asia region looks particularly attractive from a flight-cost point of view and amenities would generally be very cheap. Obviously it would need to be reasonably well connected so people can actually get there without too much expense/hassle. Where are the hidden gems that match this criteria? Self-organising conference by a group of Pure Data nerds in a place none of us has been before - what could possibly go wrong? ;) Cheers, Chris. On 27/09/14 19:23, Joseph Deken wrote: I would like to feel that NB is always a *resource* and not a *constraint.* I'd be happy to help, especially if NB efforts would bring much more *community contact* into the Pdcon setting. (Bring the person on the street into the university as I believe Jaime said about his new Waverly Labs). I have direct evidence of Kansas including a large piece of flint and some roadside wildflowers growing in a coffee mug in my car from the Flint Hills. In the Flint Hills you will also find the farm (along I-70 in fact) where Connie grew up! Evidence indeed. On Fri, 26 Sep 2014, Miller Puckette wrote: One potential organizer is thinking about throwing a Pd convention in Kansas - I have no idea if it's a real possibility. I think UCSD would be a bad place for it since the cost of visiting here is so high - and UCSD always wants to rechanrge everything, so we'd end up being
Re: [PD] Fwd: PDCon (was Updated pd-extended)
Hi all, Although I'm very aware that the Pd pendulum is very much hovering over North America and there are more than enough people who could very well organise the next PdCon (and I especially don't wish to tread on any toes - Chuck's for one), I do have an alternate offer: If there is willing from our community I am happy to organise a PdCon in Hebden Bridge, West Yorks, U.K. It's a small town so will be compact, there is a great location we could use as main space: http://www.pennineheritage.org.uk/Birchcliffe/Upstairs-at-Birchcliffe and next door is a hostel (used to be called Mama Weirdigans:) http://www.hebdenbridgehostel.co.uk/ with affordable rooms. There's also a couple of decent Bed Breakfast and apartment-type places we could approach. Hebden is about an hour on the train from both Manchester and Leeds so airports and friends in cities are nearby too. We have an excellent gig venue and drinking hole (The Trades Club) so could do an Algorave type event (or 2) http://thetradesclub.com/ There are a couple of decent galleries, indie cinema, proper pie shops and the finest chippy in a hundred mile radius (no shortage of cafe's and restaurants either). Hebden likes to view itself as vibrant and happening, particularly for its size (it's a small town, punches above its weight) so I'm sure the local and regional councils would be delighted to get involved however it can - the town hall for example is another possible venue. I was reasonably involved in putting together ICMC2011 in Huddersfield so have an idea of some of the issues involved in organising something like this. I did think about approaching UofH but tbh it would become a real pain, very quickly methinks. What I would be able to do though is hopefully access technical assistance and equipment from Hudd (some of the H.I.S.S. sound system for example). It also appears to me that there's no way I/we could even hope to begin contemplating putting on something on the scale of Weimar/Berlin but it seems the 'vibe' is moving away from something like that anyway. Perhaps? And taking onboard Chris' comments too, which I generally agree with, seems to bolster the above idea, though I do think it should also very much give the appearance of being a 'proper' conference, if only to make sure that those fortunate enough to be in a position where their employers would facilitate attending will stump up the necessary time and cash. Certainly the structure of PdCon is something to be decided between us but before that can happen we could do with a location. Perhaps this as all a case of good idea but wrong moment, and I'm fine with that, it can wait if needs be, I'm willing though. The other big question is when - June 2015 perhaps? Best wishes to all, Julian On 29 September 2014 17:32, Joe Newlin jtnew...@gmail.com wrote: Somewhere in North-ish America would be nice. What about Mexico City? ᐧ On Sun, Sep 28, 2014 at 8:56 PM, Chris McCormick ch...@mccormick.cx wrote: Hello, Random self-organising PdCon architecture idea: 1. Pick a location that matches the following criteria: * Not too expensive to fly/get to for majority of people. * Somewhere where bulk accommodation is cheap (e.g. camp site). * Located close to amenities so people can organise their own food etc. 2. Pick a date. 3. Crowd-fund from this community the cost of hiring a large-ish camp style venue in that location for a few days or a week. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BarCamp 4. Run bar camp style self-organizing PdCon where participants nominate their own talks for the various time slots of the conference on a wiki such as a page on the pure-data.info site. With regards to (1) there must be suitable places in the USA that meet these criteria (although big cities like NY seem to be out) but it would also be fun to find a large venue somewhere like Bali or Manila or a small town in India (Hyderabad seems to have particularly cheap flights for some reason), Chile, rural Italy etc. The Southeast Asia region looks particularly attractive from a flight-cost point of view and amenities would generally be very cheap. Obviously it would need to be reasonably well connected so people can actually get there without too much expense/hassle. Where are the hidden gems that match this criteria? Self-organising conference by a group of Pure Data nerds in a place none of us has been before - what could possibly go wrong? ;) Cheers, Chris. On 27/09/14 19:23, Joseph Deken wrote: I would like to feel that NB is always a *resource* and not a *constraint.* I'd be happy to help, especially if NB efforts would bring much more *community contact* into the Pdcon setting. (Bring the person on the street into the university as I believe Jaime said about his new Waverly Labs). I have direct evidence of Kansas including a large piece of flint and some roadside wildflowers growing in a coffee mug in my car from the Flint
