Our epic poster about lying online, complete with laser unicorns, by eMax
http://vocab.amy.so/blog#Done (16 out of 134)
- If a post has a
location
property, which should be a URL of a place (venue/city/country/vague), it's a checkin.- A checkin may have a
latitude
andlongitude
(my vague checkins, eg. 'home', do not). - A checkin may have
content
.
- A checkin may have a
- If a post has a
latitude
andlongitude
and nolocation
, it's a note with a location.- A note should have content.
- Andrew (age 10) showed his webcam/gesture-controlled Scratch bubble-bursting game.
- Albie (age 9) demoed iPad app Wormy Drawing (which is in the app store with over 1k downloads!)
- Harry and Kiran (age 10) showed their fish-eating, physics-heavy Scratch game.
- Marley (age 13) brought his Raspberry Pi and Arduino based robotic arm, that moves around and picks things up in response to commandline short codes, or a Wii remote.
- Sean and Toby (age 12) showed their Arduino model bus, which uses an ultrasound sensor to prevent accidents involving low bridges.
- Adam (age 8) showed his Scratch pong game.
- Andrew (age 10) showed his webcam/gesture-controlled Scratch bubble-bursting game.
- Albie (age 9) demoed iPad app Wormy Drawing (which is in the app store with over 1k downloads!)
- Harry and Kiran (age 10) showed their fish-eating, physics-heavy Scratch game.
- Marley (age 13) brought his Raspberry Pi and Arduino based robotic arm, that moves around and picks things up in response to commandline short codes, or a Wii remote.
- Sean and Toby (age 12) showed their Arduino model bus, which uses an ultrasound sensor to prevent accidents involving low bridges.
- Adam (age 8) showed his Scratch pong game.
- Marley worked on his Raspberry Pi and Arduino based robotic arm. I think he also did some general C++ and Python hacking.
- Jonas, [Joe]((http://pages.prewired.org/joe) and Cerys launched their first ever websites (and learned how to use FTP in the process)!
- Toby and Sean built an model bus using Arduino and an ultrasound sensor, aimed at prevent low-bridge related accidents.
- Mark worked on his Android game in Unity. He also modded Prison Architect and put together a spreadsheet to manage people's Minecraft mods on his server.
- Malcolm worked on setting up and tinkering with his own Minecraft server.
- Dan, Robert and Bob worked together to create a suite of tools for teaching people HTML/CSS and Java, across a website and an Android app.
- Harry started learning Java with tutorials, and worked on improving one of his Scratch games.
- Connor and Oli played with the Twitter streaming API.
- Albie ported his iPad drawing app to Scratch, and made some Scratch animations.
- Marley worked on his Raspberry Pi and Arduino based robotic arm. I think he also did some general C++ and Python hacking.
- Jonas, [Joe]((http://pages.prewired.org/joe) and Cerys launched their first ever websites (and learned how to use FTP in the process)!
- Toby and Sean built an model bus using Arduino and an ultrasound sensor, aimed at prevent low-bridge related accidents.
- Mark worked on his Android game in Unity. He also modded Prison Architect and put together a spreadsheet to manage people's Minecraft mods on his server.
- Malcolm worked on setting up and tinkering with his own Minecraft server.
- Dan, Robert and Bob worked together to create a suite of tools for teaching people HTML/CSS and Java, across a website and an Android app.
- Harry started learning Java with tutorials, and worked on improving one of his Scratch games.
- Connor and Oli played with the Twitter streaming API.
- Albie ported his iPad drawing app to Scratch, and made some Scratch animations.
- students can sign up and see the challenges and schedule
- mentors can find out how to help out (and get free lunch)
- sponsors can find out how to help us feed the students and mentors
- students can sign up and see the challenges and schedule
- mentors can find out how to help out (and get free lunch)
- sponsors can find out how to help us feed the students and mentors
I spy @emax telling the world about awesome rad social decentralisation stuff and how silos are bad #indieweb
Amy's mini Alpine Adventure
I picked Innsbruck pretty randomly as a mid-point between Dusseldorf (where I was for IWC) and Florence (where I need to be for WWW). I haven't been to Austria before, or even the Alps bar a day-trip during a school trip to France like ten years ago. The first day I was here was clear, sunny and crazy hot, so I started loving Innsbruck pretty immediately. I wandered around town, got a feel for the place, and found the only place I could get vegan pizza and eiskaffee.
The Inn river is fast-flowing and a cartoonish blue-green. The houses are bright colours, and everywhere is walkable. The town is surrounded by a ring of snow-capped mountains.
I booked a hostel so I wouldn't have to socialise too much, as I need a break from people between all of these conferences. The hostel is super quiet, and mostly pretty good. The first night I shared my dorm with two Canadian girls. They told me the funicular up one of the mountains is reasonably priced, and that it was silly to think of walking to the base as it's really far, and I should get the bus. Also that I should pay the EUR 2.60 for a bus ticket, as one of them didn't and got caught and fined ;)
Yesterday I hacked a bunch on Slog'd in the morning, then at 2pm set off with vague intentions of either climbing a mountain or swimming in a lake, ideally both. I ignored the advice of the Canadian girls, and walked to Hungerburg where the cable car starts. It was less than an hour from the hostel, and the mountain parts were easy. Turns out the cable car to the top is over 25 EUR, and it's about a 3 hour climb to Seegrube. And climbing is WAY more interesting. However, from Seegrube to the summit at Halekefar I was advised there is too much snow for climbing, so the cable car for that stretch is mandatory (and Seegrube-Halekefar is EUR 6.10 return, which I can handle). So I figured I'd climb to Seegrube, take the cable car to the summit and back, and climb all the way back on foot. But by that point, the odds of me making it to Seegrube before the cablecar stopped running at 1730 were pretty slim. I toyed with trying to find an ATM and taking the cablecar all the way, but decided I'd prefer to climb anyway and can come back the next day, earlier.
Then I walked to Lake Rossau, which the internet claims cost EUR 3.50 to swim in but I mean, it's a lake, so nobody seemed to be enforcing this. So I swam in the lake surrounded by mountains and it was beautiful.
Then I came back to the hostel and added a first pass at ActivityStreams2.0 JSON to my site. Woo! Productive day.
Today it is raining heavily and the mountains are shrouded in clouds. Naturally. Turns out I'm going to give getting to Halekefar a shot anyway, even if I can't see anything from the top, thanks to encouragement from my new hostel roomie, a fairly old Vietnamese lady who lives in Belgium.
Also, I'll post some photos just as soon as I implement display of albums and attaching Collections to posts on Slog'd.... Aaaaany day now.
Checkins
When is it a checkin (with a note) and when is it a note (with a location)? Hot topic. I differentiate them for display purposes (currently I just show a map-marker icon next to checkins, but I'm also going to want to show them on a map and stuff).
For now, my rule is:
My inner semantic pedant is unhappy with attaching a lat and lon to a post directly, so I might rethink this at some point.
None of the install Ubuntu on chromebook instructions mention the loud beeps. Don't do it during a seminar. #proTip
In talk by a computer scientist to social scientists on crawling for SNA. Q: 'is it ethical?' A: 'yes data is public'. Resisting challenge about expectation of privacy cos I want to go to the pub. But honestly, damn computer scientists.
Aaaaas usual it's my code, not someone else's, that is causing my problems. Hashtag interop.
So SPARQL DESCRIBE
queries are literally 8x slower than an equivalent CONSTRUCT { ?s ?p ?o . }
. Who knew? Not me. Maybe this isn't news to anyone who knows anything about graphs and/or query languages.
Edinburgh Mini Maker Faire
☑ Attending!
Had an amazing time supporting the Prewired table at the Edinburgh Mini Maker Faire on Sunday. I printed a load of flyers and posters, and helped haul laptops and lego, but then the kids did all the work. I was so impressed with how they pitched and demo'd their projects, told parents and kids all about Prewired, and generally enthused. I felt pretty safe sitting back and knowing they had things covered.
(ages approximate, I'm pretty bad at figuring them out..)
TODO: photos! (but also see @Prewired).
Also massive thanks to Eder, Cameron and Harry who stuck it out all day and helped with carrying, setting up and demo-ing hardware, and Martha and Rikki who came for the last few hours (after most of the kids had left) and helped with take-down. These people are awesome.
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Edinburgh Mini Maker FaireHad an amazing time supporting the Prewired table at the Edinburgh Mini Maker Faire on Sunday. I printed a load of flyers and posters, and helped haul laptops and lego, but then the kids did all the work. I was so impressed with how they pitched and demo'd their projects, told parents and kids all about Prewired, and generally enthused. I felt pretty safe sitting back and knowing they had things covered.
(ages approximate, I'm pretty bad at figuring them out..)
TODO: photos! (but also see @Prewired).
Also massive thanks to Eder, Cameron and Harry who stuck it out all day and helped with carrying, setting up and demo-ing hardware, and Martha and Rikki who came for the last few hours (after most of the kids had left) and helped with take-down. These people are awesome.
Live demo'd my blog sparql endpoint at the pub, pretty sure I'm the coolest
I'm really jealous of everyone in Seoul for CHI2015 right now.
Prewired Maker Week
☑ Attending!
During the second week of the easter holidays, we hold Prewired every day! Also known as the Maker Week, from 12 til 4 dedicated mentors hang out in CodeBase and help the kids with projects. Some kids come for just a few days, and some for the whole week. They can work on whatever they like; some carry on with what they do at regular Prewired sessions, some start a new project that they aim to finish that week, and others choose to learn something totally new.
On the first day we had over 20 kids; on subsequent days it dropped down to 10-15 because lots of schools were starting back this week.
Here's a rundown:
Mega props to mentors for helping out over the course of the week: Nantas, Freda, Eder, Luke, Helen, Cameron and Rikki (who came on his birthday!).
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Prewired Maker WeekDuring the second week of the easter holidays, we hold Prewired every day! Also known as the Maker Week, from 12 til 4 dedicated mentors hang out in CodeBase and help the kids with projects. Some kids come for just a few days, and some for the whole week. They can work on whatever they like; some carry on with what they do at regular Prewired sessions, some start a new project that they aim to finish that week, and others choose to learn something totally new.
On the first day we had over 20 kids; on subsequent days it dropped down to 10-15 because lots of schools were starting back this week.
Here's a rundown:
Mega props to mentors for helping out over the course of the week: Nantas, Freda, Eder, Luke, Helen, Cameron and Rikki (who came on his birthday!).
✮ http://tantek.com/2015/079/b1/dublin-core-application-profiles
Amy liked http://tantek.com/2015/079/b1/dublin-core-application-profiles
Smart Data Hack
☑ Attending!
I'm again helping to organise the University of Edinburgh Smart Data Hack, which is happening next week, 16th - 20th February. It's an event for undergraduates during the university's Innovative Learning Week, during which they get to learn loads of stuff they wouldn't normally see in class, hack around with datasets from various sponsors and supporters, eat tons of free food and hopefully win prizes.
If you're interested in getting involved, check out the Smart Data Hack website...
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Smart Data HackI'm again helping to organise the University of Edinburgh Smart Data Hack, which is happening next week, 16th - 20th February. It's an event for undergraduates during the university's Innovative Learning Week, during which they get to learn loads of stuff they wouldn't normally see in class, hack around with datasets from various sponsors and supporters, eat tons of free food and hopefully win prizes.
If you're interested in getting involved, check out the Smart Data Hack website...
FOAF isPrimaryTopicOf
... not FOAF primaryTopicOf
... note to self.
Lovelace Colloquium Edinburgh
☑ Attending!
I'm helping to organise the Lovelace Colloquium in Edinburgh this year! Lovelace is a one-day conference for female undergraduates studying technical subjects in the UK. There are talks, a poster competition, panel and social events. I've previously talked about Lovelace here.
If you qualify, you should enter the poster competition. If you're a postgraduate or male in Edinburgh and want to help out instead, drop me an email!
RSVP
Lovelace Colloquium EdinburghI'm helping to organise the Lovelace Colloquium in Edinburgh this year! Lovelace is a one-day conference for female undergraduates studying technical subjects in the UK. There are talks, a poster competition, panel and social events. I've previously talked about Lovelace here.
If you qualify, you should enter the poster competition. If you're a postgraduate or male in Edinburgh and want to help out instead, drop me an email!