[Scale-planning] Hands-on activities in the Expo hall?

[Lan Dang]

Caryl, Kenneth

It's great that you want to work on this.  That is what I was hoping for.

I envisioned space at the other end of the Expo hall with a few large round
tables with power and either reliable wifi or wired connections.   Maybe
access to loaner computers and hardware like Arduinos, so things can be set
up ahead of time.

The adult-friendly activities should be fun or valuable enough to lure
people into the expo hall, but not require such a time commitment that
they'd need to make a choice about whether to attend a talk.   The key
would be that the activities are something people could just stop by,
participate, and leave.

The kid-friendly activities could be similar to what was done at TNG
Playground last year but I don't want to distract from TNG speaker track on
Saturday.  We could ramp things up on Sunday, maybe.

Ideas for activities: Scratch programming. Resume clinic.  Lockpicking.
Linux clinic.  Learn something with Jupyter Notebooks. Learn how to
solder.  Making LED flowers or wearable electronics.  A brief primer on
securing data privacy.  How to get started with GitHub.   Vim Adventures.
Maybe VR or AR experiences.

I recently had fun with JavaScript with this activity:
https://codeclubprojects.org/en-GB/webdev/pixel-art/

It'd be even better if we can pull in participation from the sponsor
booths.  It would allow them to interact with the attendees in a way they
may not be able to do at the booths due to booth arrangement or too short
of an interaction.  Maybe we could set aside a table that could be reserved
Birds of a Feather-style.

Lan

On Fri, Nov 2, 2018, 2:11 PM Caryl Bigenho <cbigenho at hotmail.com> wrote:

> Hi...
>
> I'd love to work with Kenneth on this... being sure to include fun things
> for all ages! Do you want other maker faire ideas or just software/hardware?
>
> Caryl
>
> P.S. I have been rather obsessed with the upcoming elections... both the
> Montana races for house and senate and the House race here in swing
> district, CA-25. After Tuesday, I will be much more available to
> participate in SCaLE planning things.
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> *From:* Scale-planning <scale-planning-bounces at lists.linuxfests.org> on
> behalf of Kenneth Wyrick <kmw at caltek.net>
> *Sent:* Thursday, November 1, 2018 11:42 PM
> *To:* SCALE Planning List
> *Subject:* Re: [Scale-planning] Hands-on activities in the Expo hall?
>
> I'm interested in helping identify maker faire booth projects and people
> to run them.
> On Thu, November 1, 2018 9:34 pm, Ilan Rabinovitch wrote:
> I like the idea of driving traffic. How much space would we need for this?
>
> On Thu, Nov 1, 2018 at 11:41 PM Lan Dang <ldangmlist at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi all
> >
> >
> > I was thinking that next year, instead of having a dedicated room for TNG
> >  Playground, that we can do it in a common area of  the Expo hall
> > instead. It would drive traffic to the Expo hall.  We could have a mix of
> > activities that are either kid-friendly or aimed at an older crowd.
> >
> > The STEM groups that helped out last year are interested in having
> > community booths this year, so doing things in the Expo hall would be
> more
> >  convenient and may encourage more participation from other exhibitors.
> >
> > Since this will involve identifying a space that will have access to
> > power and/or Internet, I'd like to know what to do to move this idea
> > forward.
> >
> > Thoughts?
> >
> >
> > Lan
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