[57north-discuss] Events

[tj]

On Tue, Jul 11, 2017 at 11:40:18AM +0100, Dave Hibberd wrote:
> Morning All,
> 
> More than half the year has gone! Oh goodness, where did it all go?
> 
> It's been a bit of a quiet one at 57N this year! I've been quite bad for
> going to other places and playing with toys there. 
> 
> Let's sort that and get some weekend events on the go! I'd really like
> to see one weekend event a month happening in the hackerspace.  It can
> be a one day, two day or 3 day event! They don't take much work to
> organise, and we're all willing to pitch in to make it happen!
> 
> There is a new category on the wiki -  Events [1] - which can be used to
> list your event. Just add `[[Category:Events]]`  to the bottom of your
> wiki page and it'll appear! There is probably a fancy way that semantic
> mediawiki can make this easier, we'll work that out as we go along. 
> 
> Before the end of the year, I intend to run a Game Jam [2], another OSM
> Mapping weekend[2] and the popular Stupid Shit No One Needs hackathon
> [3]. 

I would like to country the stupid shit hackathon idea with a 'Shit
hackerdeen bot says' hackathon.

> That should do August/September/October. Who's on November and
> December? ChristmasHax could be fun, and I'd love to do a Fireworks
> session in November for Guy Fawkes // TJ's Birthday weekend, but that
> seems like a Bad Idea(tm).

Oh man I am totally on board for fireworks.

These people https://store.fireworxscotland.co.uk/
are located close to one of our servers and offer great prices for high
quality fireworks(none of that super market shit). 

We would need to find somewhere to have a party with space for them.

- [tj]