Have a hackathon where a) existing team have work time together to ship something b) new people can get involved and connect

In person at Bergerac and online
Contributing to and aligned with the draft research program of the community

Outcome visioning

10+ people having a great time, 5 projects and we ship at least 3 published reading lists and have the infrastructure for doing more in ongoing collaborations.

Tasks

[x] Create a blog post
[x] Create Google form for registration
[x] Create draft brief for reading lists project

Notes

Questions

[x] Data collection
- [x] Who can attend & when?
- [x] What skills do attendees have that they can share?
[x] Sharing the event
- [x] Where do we share?
[x] How many days (core day)
[x] In person vs online
- [x] In person where
[x] How do you register?
[x] Is this invite only or an open event?
[x] Naming: makeathon, collabothon, hackathon

Meetings

2023-05-12

Present: Matt, Rufus

Intention: create a plan for the june LIRC hackathon event and a draft blog post so that we know next actions and can start sharing

Agenda

[ ] 👋 Check-in
[ ] 🥳 Plan Event - https://github.com/orgs/life-itself/discussions/466
[ ] Draft landing page
[ ] ⏭️ Check-out and next actions
- [ ] Matt: draft the blog post?
- [ ] Matt: draft brief for reading lists project

Background in https://github.com/orgs/life-itself/discussions/466

^{Originally posted by **rufuspollock** April 21, 2023} Organize a [research community](https://lifeitself.org/research) hackathon in the next 3-4 months. Hackathons are a great pattern we could adopt as a way of crystallising activity and community. > A hackathon (also known as a hack day, hackfest, datathon or codefest; a portmanteau of hacking and marathon) is an event where people engage in rapid and collaborative engineering over a relatively short period of time such as 24 or 48 hours **UPDATE 📣: 28 April**: date chosen for the event Saturday and/or Sunday 3rd/4th of June. ### 📣 Suggestions wanted! We're brainstorming around the following questions (and please add more** - **What (topics)?**: 🚧 **see brainstorm below 👇** - **Who**: all welcome! - **Facilitators**: Rufus and Matt volunteered to co-organize. Others welcome. - **Where**: online and at [Bergerac Hub](https://lifeitself.org/hubs/bergerac) or nearby - **When**: Sat/Sun 3rd and 4th June 2023 ~~probably a weekend some time in next 3 months (i.e. may / june / july 2023)~~ - **Naming**: this isn't really a hackathon (we aren't coding and we aren't rushing to get somewhere!). Alternative names wanted! ### Topic shortlist Culled from suggestions below - **High-level knowledge map**: An interactive knowledge map viz that ties together topics of focus within Life Itself. - Attempting to serve the Q: _"What topics is Life Itself interested in?"_ and _"What topics are adjacent or related to X?"_. - Inspiration: [Life Itself research topical map](https://github.com/life-itself/community/blob/914addc2405ff1e7eff1d3f28e6db6ed87a8240c/content/excalidraw/research-topical-map-2023-01-14.excalidraw.svg) / [xiq's knowledge map](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Fa2M570WIAA7USi?format=png&name=4096x4096) - **Reading lists / learning resource curation**: A framework for organising learning resources for newcomers to a particular topic, i.e. books, papers, videos, podcasts, thinkers, etc. This could also be integrated with a knowledge map. - Attempting to serve the Q: _"How can I learn about topic X as a newcomer?"._ and _"What are the canonical texts for topic X?"_ - Inspiration: [user-generated reading lists](https://placesjournal.org/reading-lists/) / [notion reading lists](https://parameter.io/notion-reading-list-templates/) / [roadmap.sh](https://roadmap.sh/system-design) / [healthygamer.gg](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/960919/234788298-d2ef94a1-c7ae-4f7a-b108-19128f448cc1.png) - how to analyze data (surveys, interviews before and after coliving experiences) quantitatively or qualitatively, e.g. some of the notebook example is here https://github.com/Liyubov/community/tree/master/research/notebooks we started to discuss it with Marc as well, as he has experience in quantiative measures, survey design etc. - related to space of coliving, we started to also map coliving space e.g. here https://github.com/Liyubov/community/blob/master/research/README.md based on discussions we had with Penny Clark from CC (consious coliving), happy to invite her for this - Inner development guide / directory could include library of papers, literature review, visualization of key streams of work - Textual analysis of political manifestos to analyze their cultural worldview - Write up of cultural values work by e.g. Schwartz, Inglehart et al - Guide to conscious communities and coliving - Directory of exemplar intentional communities - Prototype research program about intentional communities and what makes them work or not

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