April 2024 Organizer Meeting

IETF Summer Week

Timeframe:

Backcasting from a mid-May registration

To Do!

• Name & frame the week
  • Naming - Boris has a handwritten
  • Framing - unearthing the intersections of tech / arts / media / research, leveraging the presence of IETF being in town!
• Plan location/vibe for afterparty Sat, July 27
• Create a consolidated lu.ma calendar where people can add their events
  • Set up a subdomain at dwebyvr.org
• Extend invitation to the network
  • Internet Access

What's confirmed:

• Our Networks in 312 Main on Sat, July 27
• The whole IETF event series; the conference is quite expensive, but the first Sat/Sun (codesprint) is quite open.

Other audiences

• Interdisciplinary arts / tech / media / research

Other ideas

• Get a (physical) badge for attending the week!

Event Ideas

• Film screening:
  • Machine in Flames https://www.startpage.com/do/dsearch?q=the+machine+in+flames&cat=web&language=english
  • Ninth Floor https://www.nfb.ca/film/ninth_floor/
• Sun Jul 27 - Hack Day (Boris to host, potential)
• Wed Jul 24 - Improv or Standup, e.g. there's a weekly standup sesh at City Centre Motel (Wes' connection)
• Powerpoint Karaoke
• Anything with William Bibs
• Reach out to VPL to do anything that week related to sci-fi, spec fic

coFood Collaborative Garden Dinners

To Do

• Figure out a budget for snacks / hosting
• Add dates to lu.ma for:
  • Sun, May
  • Sun, June 23
  • Sun, July 21? (IETF week overlap???)
  • August OFF
  • Sun, Sept 15

Coworking

• No more mornings at The Permanent
• some interest in trying different spaces? Looking for at least one coworking lead
• maybe: look for a paid space to share?

Tech Socials

To Do

• Book three more (One quarter at a time)
• Call for content - e.g. another TFT (Tools for Thought)? (Powerpoint karaoke at Z Space?)

Going forward:

• Charge for tickets and include food / drink?
• Arrange around 'themes' to bring out people interested in specific content that's more specifically DWeb aligned than generic 'tech'?

Vancouver Hack Days

Recurring monthly rhythm, or every-other-month, would be awesome!

Dates in May? June? Venues? Content?

looking for volunteers

Misc Orga Topics

• Logo creation
  • Get a favicon hooked up for the wiki.
• DWeb Camp planning DWeb Camp 2024 Vancouver Cohort
• Communications channels: Signal, Ghost, Discord