M'Learned Colleagues, At MCN 2012 in Seattle, as part of Friday morning's Slack Day extravaganza, there will be a session codenamed Hackin' Shack. This session will consist of several bite-size introductions to cool tools and technologies which perhaps you've been meaning to try but never had the time or opportunity.
We're seeking brave volunteers who are willing to give a 15 minute live demonstration of a piece of software, hardware or a technique that makes your museum tick. Ideally, software should be freely available?at least a free demo?such that participants can install in advance and hack along with your show. Nothing like getting your hands on to learn something. Here's an incomplete list of the kind of stuff we can imagine finding an eager audience: node.js, ruby, Processing(.js), Sketchup and 3D modelling, editing a Wikipedia page, web services, cloud, Firebug, multiplayer tactics in Halo, "I want an app", dungeon raiding in World of Warcraft, productivity tips, making ebooks, RDFa, Max/MSP/Jitter, accessibility, HTML5 forms/canvas/etc., CSS3 eye candy, LESS, SASS, or WHATEVER is floating your boat right now. The general ethos is that of a drop-in, drop-out, optional participation session?this is a Slack Day, after all. Demos should focus on a generic introduction to the tool rather than a case study. Participants may drift between this and other exciting Slack Day tracks, such as hardware hacking and THATCamp. Keeping an irreverent, informal tone, these sessions could be an opportunity for MCN "emerging professionals" to try their hand at presenting or for seasoned MCN members to pass on their hard-won knowledge. If you have an idea for a session, please drop me a line at r.barrettsmall at vam.ac.uk. Once we have a critical mass of contributors, I'll put together a running order and try to orchestrate some kind of online conflab, like Google Hangout. Thanks for your time and I look forward to seeing you in November, if not before. Best regards, -- Richard Barrett-Small Lead Developer V&A Digital Media Victoria and Albert Museum r.barrettsmall at vam.ac.uk www.vam.ac.uk 020 7942 2343 Heatherwick Studio: Designing the Extraordinary 31 May ? 30 September 2012 at V&A South Kensington Sponsored by Ernst & Young Book now on www.vam.ac.uk/content/exhibitions/heatherwick-studio/ See the exhibition for free if you join as a V&A Member www.vam.ac.uk/members Beautiful Games 31 March - 9 September 2012 at V&A Museum of Childhood Admission free Keep in touch Sign up for V&A e-newsletters www.vam.ac.uk/signup Become a fan on Facebook.com/VictoriaandAlbertMuseum ( http://www.facebook.com/VictoriaandAlbertMuseum ) Follow us on Twitter.com/V_and_A ( http://www.twitter.com/V_and_A ) The information contained in this message is confidential and intended only for the individual named above. If you are not the intended recipient, or responsible for delivering it to the intended recipient you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution, copying, or disclosure of this information is prohibited and may be unlawful. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us by telephone on 020 7942 2353.
