[humanities-dev] Looking for comments on a possible ShakeSpeare Hackday / Announcing the Will's World Hack, 5th-12th December 2012

Tue Nov 27 17:28:37 UTC 2012

Sam and the lovely people of the Open-Humanities and Humanities-Dev lists,

Thank you for your email about our proposed Shakespeare Hackday. I am 
emailing as I am delighted to announce that the ShakeSpeare Hackday is 
going ahead!

We had a fantastic responses to our survey - thank you to all who took 
part - and based on that feedback we have decided that an online hack 
should take place in the format of a week-long event running from 5th to 
12th December 2012.

For an introduction of what our hopes for the event are take a look at 
this video from the Will’s World Project Manager Muriel Mewissen: 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8dXw54Wydok

We have set up a wiki for the event where we would encourage you to take 
a look around the wiki and, hopefully, complete the registration form 
for the event. We will be sending out goodie bags to the first 50 
participants to register as an added incentive!

Please do also feel free to forward this information on to any 
colleagues, friends or mailing lists that you think may be interested in 
taking part. We really do welcome everyone to take part in the hack 
event whether developers, amateur coders, or those with great ideas to 
share, such as educators, creative practitioners, Shakespeare fans, etc.

*Key Links*

You will find a blog post about the event here:
http://willsworld.blogs.edina.ac.uk/2012/11/22/join-wills-world-online-hack-5-12-dec-2012/

The wiki is here:
http://willsworld.edina.ac.uk/wiki/index.php/Main_Page

And you can register for the event here:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dGx3ZkZfUW1DV3hZcjB2cl90TnN5b1E6MQ

If you have any questions at all about the event please email 
willsworldhack at gmail.com and one of the Will’s World team – Muriel, Neil 
or Nicola – will get back to you.

We look forward to seeing some of you online very soon and thank you 
again for supporting the Will’s World Project!

Best wishes,

Nicola

On behalf of:

Nicola Osborne, Muriel Mewissen, and Neil Mayo
Will’s World Project Team

Blog: http://willsworld.blogs.edina.ac.uk/
Hack Event Wiki: http://willsworld.edina.ac.uk/wiki/
Follow @WillsWorldHack on Twitter or use the #willhack hashtag.

On 14/11/2012 14:51, Sam Leon wrote:
> Dear Nicola,
>
> This looks fantastic! Do let us know how the concept develops and keep
> this list updated with details of the hack.
>
> Best,
> Sam
>
> On Thu, Nov 8, 2012 at 5:34 PM, Nicola Osborne <nicola.osborne at ed.ac.uk
> <mailto:nicola.osborne at ed.ac.uk>> wrote:
>
>     Hi there,
>
>     Myself and my colleagues at EDINA are considering running a hackday
>     (likely to be December this year) for a project we've been working
>     on and which I hope may be of interest. The project is called Will's
>     World and it is a JISC-funded project to build a registry of
>     metadata about Shakespeare resources across the UK.
>
>     We have been inspired by other excellent hack events we've been to
>     and are wanting to run our own online hack event. We think that's a
>     fairly unusual way to do it and we really want some feedback on the
>     idea and the format from the people we want to be involved - which
>     might hopefully include some of you.
>
>     The hackday would be open to all (as will the registry) and I am
>     very much hoping you might able to involved either in giving us some
>     feedback on the idea, in the event itself or both!
>
>     We've put up a blogpost about our idea here:
>     http://willsworld.blogs.edina.__ac.uk/2012/10/18/online-hack-__event/ <http://willsworld.blogs.edina.ac.uk/2012/10/18/online-hack-event/>
>
>     And the survey we are running to capture feedback is here:
>     https://www.survey.ed.ac.uk/__willsworldhack/
>     <https://www.survey.ed.ac.uk/willsworldhack/>
>
>     Please do feel free to forward/share with others - we want to both
>     get word out about the possible event and capture as much feedback
>     as possible before we start planning so we can make sure it actually
>     works well.
>
>     Huge thanks in advance!
>
>     - Nicola.
>
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Nicola Osborne
Social Media Officer

EDINA website:
http://www.edina.ac.uk/

t: 0131 651 3873
e: nicola.osborne at ed.ac.uk

a: EDINA, The University of Edinburgh, Causewayside House, 158-162 
Causewayside, Edinburgh EH9 1PR

The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in 
Scotland, with registration number SC005336.