@chrispitzer - There will be scheduled events throughout the day - that's the main draw. It might be fun, however, to offer day long events going on in the background that people can join and leave at will. I invite your thoughts - this could be a cool thing, or it could be distracting. What do you think?
Background activity options:
- RepRap party - reprap.org (thanks for the comment Reid - sounds like this project isn't suffeciently developed to be a 2008 activity)
- we could have a room that starts out with one (or more) reprap machines at the beginning of the conference, and see how many we can build by the end. We could connect the reprap room in portland by video stream to the reprap one in Vancouver so people in one location can bounce ideas off people in the other.
- a white board and a video link would be helpful
- Project Euler sprint - projecteuler.net
- Project Euler is a series of puzzles that have to be solved by writing programs. We try to solve as many as possible by the end of the day.
- a white board and a video link would be helpful
- Music?
- This morning, I received an email from @calvinlotz, a local musician who, in a moment of inspiration, made a “Cyborg Strut” jingle. He needs feedback, but I’m thinking that a live music performance (think one laptop + one keyboard) with audience participation would be cool to have, no?
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Comments (4)
Reid Beels said
at 5:12 pm on Sep 15, 2008
I talked to one of the RepRap people from OIT and it didn't sound like they're ready to pull off mass production at a reasonable price at this point.
peterwooley said
at 8:55 pm on Sep 28, 2008
Project Euler sounds like a seriously fun idea. Would we want to offer any hardware for people or rely on Laptops?
Would we pit each location against each other and try to solve more than the other or would we want to collaborate?
znmeb@... said
at 7:39 pm on Sep 30, 2008
Yeah ... definitely need computer music *IF* it is not deafeningly loud! I've had to walk out of bunches of concerts because of the volume. I've got a pretty good collection of computer music -- Xenakis, David Cope's synthetic Beethoven/Mozart/Chopin, Bill Sethares' microtonal/xentonal, Charles Dodge's "Earth's Magnetic Field", and some really cool Laurie Spiegel.
Actually, Cope's software is mostly up on his web page now but most of it only runs on a Mac. Apple gives his lab great prices. ;)
znmeb@... said
at 12:33 pm on Oct 5, 2008
If any of you Macintosh folk (which is most everyone but me, it seems) want to play with computer music (and Lisp) you can find Cope's software at http://tinyurl.com/4zh297. I once wanted to port it to Linux, but there's now some open source software that already runs on Linux
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