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Let's have a workshop #1

Open capnmidnight opened 9 years ago

capnmidnight commented 9 years ago

I'm thinking of a workshop for 5 to 10 people that involves:

[ ] setting up a development environment for VR with either the Oculus Rift or Google Cardboard
[ ] getting new users setup with Github and into the DCVR org
[ ] putting together a small model of an object in Blender
[ ] bringing those objects together into a shared VR meeting space
[ ] video the event and publish on the tubes

Thoughts? Suggestions?

alusion commented 9 years ago

Great idea. I can set this up at Hacdc where we can borrow a photography studio set from the Hacdc president and a DSLR camera from someone and we can upload them to AutoCAD for the rendering. We should also have several kinects. We can even experiment with importing ourselves.

capnmidnight commented 9 years ago

I have a camera, so that part is fine. I do like the idea of videoing the event and sharing it. Actually, Ive been thinking videoing our events to some degree would be good. Adding a bullet point to the issue.

jasnonaz commented 9 years ago

That sounds awesome!! Great idea!

capnmidnight commented 9 years ago

What do you expect most people's basic competency level will be? Do you think most people who would come to such a thing would either A) already know JavaScript, or B) already know enough programming in other languages to be able to pick it up on the spot?

alusion commented 9 years ago

We will have a healthy range of competencies if we plan with HacDC. Hackerspaces usually pickup on projects that take < 1 month or $500 and attract the right type of interest. Also my Gear VR is coming in this week; I'm moving a lot more into Android lately. I am personally very interested in playing with Blender to make a model of an object. Does later this week sound good to setup development environment and discuss documentation [piratepad / screencasts / video / git]? I figure it'd be wiser before setting up a main event workshop. Proper documentation is more useful and can efficiently transform into nice presentations too!

capnmidnight commented 9 years ago

I'd rather not do it at HacDC. I was thinking of somewhere more like WeWork or Cove. On Feb 1, 2015 9:44 AM, "alusion" notifications@github.com wrote:

We will have a healthy range of competencies if we plan with HacDC. Hackerspaces usually pickup on projects that take < 1 month or $500 and attract the right type of interest. Also my Gear VR is coming in this week; I'm moving a lot more into Android lately. I am personally very interested in playing with Blender to make a model of an object. Does later this week sound good to setup development environment and discuss documentation [piratepad / screencasts / video / git]? I figure it'd be wiser before setting up a main event workshop. Proper documentation is more useful and can efficiently transform into nice presentations too!

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alusion commented 9 years ago

They seem like nice co-working places but they usually come at a cost.