Mesh/MTP2018
Mesh the Planet! 2018 Unconference
As a followup to the Decentralized Web Summit taking place July 31 - August 3rd, members of Sudo Mesh will be hosting an unconference to bring together the decentralized internets community in the shared spirit of meshing the planet!
Logistics
- What: An informal unconference / hackathon around building and deploying the decentralized web
- When: Aug 4th or 5th (not both), 12-6pm? TBD
- Where: Sudo Room and/or the ballroom, located in the Omni Commons @ 4799 Shattuck Ave, Oakland, CA
- Roughly half a mile north of the MacArthur BART station, ~20mins from San Francisco
Roles
- Front desk -
- Facilitation -
- Food - Scott/nanomonkey,
- Setup - Jenny,
- Cleanup - Jenny,
Documentation
- Collaborative session notes taken at https://peoplesopen.net/pad/p/SESSION__NAME
- Notes posted to this wiki in the corresponding agenda lines below, or use the format: https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Mesh/MTP2018/SESSION_NAME
- Livestream for remote participation?
Material Resources
See Aspiration Tech's Materials Shopping List
- 3" x 5" un-ruled stickie notes, 1 pad per about 5 participants (Jenny will buy)
- Fine point Sharpie markers (Jenny will buy)
- 1/4" color dots for voting (in office)
- Movable walls! (in ballroom)
- Infinity coffee, snacks, and hydrating beverages
- Tables and chairs
- Power strips
- External monitors
- Mesh testbeds - Sudo Mesh, Toronto Mesh, others?
- Swag table - buttons, stickers, pins, zines, tshirts etc!
- Nametags
Agenda
- Introduction -- Who's going to speak/facilitate? (needs a volunteer)
- Lightning talks -- We need one presentation group per 15 presenters. This way each group will finish presenting after about 25 presentations * (5 min presentation + 2 min setup) = 1.5 hrs -- A presentation group consists of: --- 1 timekeeper (needs a volunteer)
The timekeeper is extremely important! Every presentation group needs its own timekeeper.
The responsibilities of the timekeeper are:
start a 5 minute timer when a presentation begins
give the presenter a warning when they have only 1 minute left
--- a bunch of presenters --- probably some audience members who are not going to present --- a space in which to present (probably just a quadrant of the ballroom, unless it gets too noisy. no projection or amplification.)
12-1pm: Introductions and lunch
Circle up, intros
1-2pm: Agenda-setting
We'll follow an "open space" model for collaborative agenda-setting, following guidelines outlined by Aspiration Tech.
12-1pm: Recap, goal-setting, coffee/lunch!
1-2pm: 5 Minutes of Fame / Lightning Talks
Tunabananas (talk) Should this be on Saturday earlier on?
Sign up to give a 5-minute lightning talk below!
3hr lightning talks 3hr mesh services hacking
2-6pm: HACKATHON
Deploying services live to People's Open Network!
- We'll have a stack of Home Nodes (WD MyNet routers) and NAS devices and can spend the day deploying various services and building our own internet!
Evening funtimes
- Food? Karaoke? Dance party??
Inspiration
- Aspiration Tech has a great wiki on facilitation for rad unconferences - check out their Session Design Guidelines, Agenda Guidelines, and Agenda Hacking,