Arduino Day Discussion

Conversation started Mar 5, 2014 at 14:52.

AsheeshR

Mar 5, 2014 14:52

Changing the topic: I am assuming that the +5/-0 on this post means that we have a fair bit of interest in something being organized.

Peter R. Bloomfield

@AsheeshR I guess so. :) It's hard to know how to organise something I guess, because SE doesn't lend itself well to 'events' for the most part.

We'd presumably have to host something somewhere else.

AsheeshR

@PeterR.Bloomfield On the contrary, it does provide enough ;)

Peter R. Bloomfield

@AsheeshR What did you have in mind?

AsheeshR

@PeterR.Bloomfield Take a look at arduino.stackexchange.com/admin/community-events

Peter R. Bloomfield

I've seen that actually, but I wasn't sure how we could really use it at this stage. What sort of event would we do using SE?

AsheeshR

Mar 5, 2014 14:57

@PeterR.Bloomfield For now, I have just this in mind. meta.arduino.stackexchange.com/a/126/65

Instead of chat, we could do it on meta or main, depending on what you guys think of.

However, that will require a lot of proactive moderation on the part of you, sachleen, and Annonomous.

Specially, if we do it on main.

Peter R. Bloomfield

@AsheeshR I think one of our goals at this stage should be exposure and encouraging more people to join us, so having something hidden away on chat or meta might not be the best.

Maybe we could have an event-specific question on main, and people can add their projects as answers?

AsheeshR

@PeterR.Bloomfield Exactly what I had in mind.

Peter R. Bloomfield

It would obviously be on the proviso that that sort of question isn't normally permitted.

AsheeshR

This has been done on some other sites, and is the format used for competitions/contests.

Peter R. Bloomfield

@AsheeshR Cool. Well that sounds good then.

@AsheeshR Maybe you could edit your post on meta to include the main question idea?

AsheeshR

Mar 5, 2014 15:03

@PeterR.Bloomfield We should probably get the opinions' of @sachleen and @AnnonomusPerson.

Peter R. Bloomfield

@AsheeshR Definitely. Float it within the community as well to see what they say.

if anything...

AsheeshR

@PeterR.Bloomfield The tag featured is (the proxy) for that. It pins posts on the Community Bulletin for 30 days, or till the tag is removed.

Peter R. Bloomfield

@AsheeshR I assume only mods can add that tag? :)

AsheeshR

@PeterR.Bloomfield Yes. Use it wisely and sparingly :P

Peter R. Bloomfield

Done.

AsheeshR

Mar 5, 2014 15:12

Hey @JohnB

JohnB

Hello!

AsheeshR

@PeterR.Bloomfield It would be even cooler if we could give some sort of prize for the most interesting project.

Peter R. Bloomfield

@AsheeshR Some of us could offer a rep bounty.

AsheeshR

@PeterR.Bloomfield One would be enough :)

@PeterR.Bloomfield Maybe, whoever posts the question could put up the bounty = rep gained on the question.

Peter R. Bloomfield

@AsheeshR If we get quite a few entries, it might be nice to have more than one category... e.g. "best use of sensors" and so on.

AsheeshR

Mar 5, 2014 15:16

@PeterR.Bloomfield That may get complicated.

Peter R. Bloomfield

@AsheeshR Good idea.

@AsheeshR True, can't exactly organise multiple votes in a single question. Fair enough.

JohnB

Another idea: a hackathon would be awesome, but difficult to organize

AsheeshR

@JohnB Online? Across time zones?

JohnB

Yep, I've done a few 48 hour ones

done as in participated, not organized

AsheeshR

@JohnB I participated in one competitive coding competition once, 24 hours continuously.

JohnB

Mar 5, 2014 15:18

Was there a particular focus?

AsheeshR

ieee.org/membership_services/membership/students/competitions/…

Participated twice in fact.

JohnB

Cool

AsheeshR

@JohnB One of the things to remember though that you have real people around you at all times in a hackathon.

Which acts as a strong motivator.

@JohnB What did you participate in?

JohnB

usually what makes online hackathons work is that the project can be deployed by anyone. That wouldn't work very well with Arduinos, different people have different hardware

@AsheeshR nodeknockout.com and staticshowdown.com

AsheeshR

@JohnB Awesome!

btw, take a look at this if you get time. All opinions welcome :)

@JohnB Thats going to be a major problem.

@PeterR.Bloomfield That leaves out one other important issue. CW or not to CW.

Too much activity on any post this early, could really skew things which has an impact on the moderation being done by active users within the site.

Peter R. Bloomfield

Mar 5, 2014 15:28

@AsheeshR Good point. CW sounds like a good way to go. If we need some rep for a prize then I'm happy to give it myself. A couple hundred should suffice I would think.

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