Webmaker/Victoria/Jan 28, 2013

Attendance: 15 people

Hive Popup (Scott)

Scott talked to Chris, who encouraged us to run a Popup event in Victoria. as a way to bring together interested organizations in Victoria, under one roof for an event. 'enact education on the spot'. Lets do this!

• Including must-watch video from Chris Lawrence

Webmaker & Webmaker X (Brett)

Demo of Webmaker tools, Webmaker X

• Webmaker
• Popcorn Maker
• Thimble
• Webmaker X - (Blog Post)
• Webmaker X - Dev site
• Web Literacies
• Learning/Teaching resources - Hacktivity Kits

Makerspace (Thomas)

• Website
• [Cool Arduino Robot]
• Classes ongoing

Interarts Centre (Vanessa)

• Website
• Combination of 3 groups Olio , Cinivic and Makerspace
  • Lots to consider when combining different types of makers!
  • Downtown Victoria
• Indiegogo page
• Facebook Page

Open Data Day is on!(Herb)

• Webmaker event link
• Webmaker will participate, likely with CAGIS girls as particpants, and Saanich youth.
• Conversation around length of time (participant attention span is important :)
• Particpants need to bring their own laptops.
• adults and youth/kids hacking in parrellel - the connection for youth/kids that they are hacking on the same thing 'older kids/adults are'
• bandwidth should be OK
• some flexibility for kids to come and go
• Ideas around activities for kids - showing >> The DataLibre resource page: http://datalibre.ca/links-resources/ to view example open data projects across Canada
  • Zombie Themed Google Map
  • Popcorn
  • Victoria Treasure Hunt (add to map - favourite beach etc)
    • Neighborhood Tour
  • Wiki pages on a map focused where contributions come from all participants on a theme & victoriawiki.ca (Brett & Scott to put something together)
    • best slides in Victoria
    • best places to fly a paper airplane
    • best places to skateboard
  • Open Data and MineCraft
• The BC Open Data Summit in Vancouver
• Open Data Day
• Victoria Open Data Day Hackathon wiki

Open Data Day - Action Items

• Create an Open Data collaborative wiki 'thing' (Brett & Scott)
• Draft up a Open Data day one-page description for kids, including activities (wiki and popcorn). (Probably Emma)
• Confirm with Heather attendance # of girls
• Confirm mentorship volunteers
• Need to set a time / duration
• Bring non-technology things, for attention drift, maybe lego, maybe crayons & paper.

Webmaker BC (Victoria) Next Steps (everyone)

• regular hackjams
• The Victoria Community Micro Lending Society : http://www.communitymicrolending.ca/
• Van City Community Project Grants : http://ow.ly/heFLu
• The Space, co-working on Broad St. downtown (launching later this summer): http://www.thespace.ca
• In the future, as the group grows, plan to publish makerspace and associated maker events in the Saanich ( http://www.saanich.ca/parkrec/Recreation/alg.html ) and Victoria ( http://ow.ly/hjLsj ) Activity Guides .

Action Items

• concerns around ages of children for event sign-up (how do we handle this?)
• Open Data day stuff (listed above)
• Setting up regular hackjams (as per Helen's recommendation - something like 1st Saturday of each month)