UK Network Working Weekend - Sheffield September 2005
This was held at the
Matilda social centre at 111 Matilda Street, Sheffield [
Googlemaps |
Multimap |
Streetmap ], on the weekend of the
23-25th September 2005.
This weekend was
suggested,
proposed and
it went ahead 
the imc-uk-network archive for
August 2005 has the full discussions about this weekend.
See maqui's
report back of the discussions
Sessions
Some ideas about what things people could/should work on - please add to this list!
- Archives
- Templates
- ImcUkVideoScreeningsResource
- Fixing bugs
- Implementing feature requests
- Security
- GPG key signings (for those who haven't already)
- Anonymisation and the use of Tor
- Abuse prevention messures - getting admins in touch on their use.
- Rebuilding pulp.indymedia.org.uk -- the development server (hopefully this will be done before the weekend) see: PulpInfo
- Working on the Notts Indy website
- Web design/CSS workshop (andy from ImcUkCambridge who did the Cambridge and UK designs)
- Training for any new folk who come along - how to do newswire cleaning, how to use IRC
- Discussion on new servers for ImcUk
- publish server
- rsync server
- dedicated postgres server
- Activix discussion (parallel to imc - is not really an imc project although probably a lot of similar techs)
- Are people up for helping to organise/ attending some kind of European get together in 2006 EuroIMCConvergance06
- Moderation - there's lots on the web about this already which would serve as good background to this discussion:
- TWiki training session
Timetable
What are we going to do when? At what times will it start and end on each day?
On 15 September there was an
informal discussion in #uk about the weekend and it was agreed that starting the Saturday with a vision type session would make sense, see the log for more details.
Attending
Who can make it? Please add yourself to the list so that the number of computers, rooms and quantity of food and crash space etc can be sorted.
Number of computers - people should note if they have laptops, or should we just work on half(?) the people coming having a laptop ... ?
Practicalities
Getting there
Matilda is 5mins walk from the train and bus station, it's an old brick building with various banners hanging from it.
There is on street car parking near by, however you have to pay for this during the day on Saturday so people might want to move any cars to the other side of the inner ring road (basically 1/2 a mile south near Brammel Lane football ground) to aviod paying...
Accomodation
There is crash space at Matilda, bring sleeping bags and inflatable matresses if you have them and warm clothes just in case -- the building has no heating...
Food
The plan is to have a meal / snack available on Friday night and then 3 meals on Saturday and 2 on Sunday.
Connectivity
There is a wired and wireless internet access at Matilda and a wirless network in The Rutland.
Social facilities
There is
a party at Brambles on the Saturday night, after the pubs close (11:30pm ish).
The nearest pub is
The Rutland and it has a open access wirless network.
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DaMish - 06 Sep 2005
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MaQui - 21 Oct 2005 - linked my report back
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