<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="auto">Caryl, Kenneth<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">It's great that you want to work on this. That is what I was hoping for.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">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.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">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.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div dir="auto"><div dir="auto">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.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div>I recently had fun with JavaScript with this activity: <a href="https://codeclubprojects.org/en-GB/webdev/pixel-art/">https://codeclubprojects.org/en-GB/webdev/pixel-art/</a></div><div><br></div></div><div dir="auto">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.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><div>Lan</div></div></div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Fri, Nov 2, 2018, 2:11 PM Caryl Bigenho <<a href="mailto:cbigenho@hotmail.com" target="_blank">cbigenho@hotmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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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?</div>
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On Thu, November 1, 2018 9:34 pm, Ilan Rabinovitch wrote:<br>
I like the idea of driving traffic. How much space would we need for this?<br>
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On Thu, Nov 1, 2018 at 11:41 PM Lan Dang <<a href="mailto:ldangmlist@gmail.com" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">ldangmlist@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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> Hi all<br>
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> I was thinking that next year, instead of having a dedicated room for TNG<br>
> Playground, that we can do it in a common area of the Expo hall<br>
> instead. It would drive traffic to the Expo hall. We could have a mix of<br>
> activities that are either kid-friendly or aimed at an older crowd.<br>
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> The STEM groups that helped out last year are interested in having<br>
> community booths this year, so doing things in the Expo hall would be more<br>
> convenient and may encourage more participation from other exhibitors.<br>
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> Since this will involve identifying a space that will have access to<br>
> power and/or Internet, I'd like to know what to do to move this idea<br>
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