I’m thinking about starting opening MHV on Friday evenings to wind down for the weekend by watching videos from 31C3 and linuxconf (or anything else people think is interesting). We could get takeaway for dinner or snacks to share and there are the drinks at MHV.
Does this sound good to anyone else? If it does I’ll open this Friday - although maybe that isn’t enough notice for people? I’m probably going to be in Melbourne the following week, so perhaps another keyholder can open then, or skip that week.
Tell me if you like the idea - either for this week or sometime in the future.
What time were you thinking? I’d be able to participate more often if it started around 5:30 and gave me time to get home and changed afterwards for an evening out as I am one to do on Friday nights. However, I’m a pretty loud voice and I already have lots of opportunities to participate in MHV so maybe see what suits others before picking a start time.
I wonder if proposing a handful of videos to watch pre-meetup, then discussing their content at MHV might also work. I guess like how a book group works (not that i have ever been to one of those).
Not that I am that talkative myself, but i think that could be more engaging that watching videos in a group.
Still, sitting down and watching things together over food and or beer has a social bonding benefits. Chat’s will likely follow, structured or otherwise. Those who are into the chats can do that, those who aren’t still get the benefit of hanging out and watching videos together.
For this week, given the short notice, I think we go with just watching together, but if people want to we can decide on some to prewatch for another week - maybe do a mixture, watch one and discuss that and others.
I agree with @devdsp about needing to be careful to let everyone who wants to talk have a turn, and the guidelines he links to look good - the ‘agenda’ doesn’t have to be long, it might just be ‘discuss talk’, or it might break that discussion into topic areas people feel the talk has raised. I’m not sure if we want/need to take notes, but we can decide that as a group. To some extent the structure required will depend on how many people turn up.
If we are pre-watching talks, someone might be willing to provide links to other relevant background material depending on the topic and type of talk.
Here are the 31c3 Videos (I have quite a few on a local hard disk to save us having to download them)
I think the Schedule has more detail about each talk (click on the days at the left of the page to see the html version).
There are so many good talks, not sure how we should go about deciding which to start with.
No one else has expressed a preference for starting time, so we’ll start at 5:30. Other people can turn up when it suits them, shouldn’t be a problem if people come in at different times.
Hi Aaron, I for one would be interested in a local copy. There are about 5 Gb of talks I would like and getting them on my el cheapo Grapevine account will take about 6 months Owen Sent: Thursday, January 29, 2015 at 4:59 PM
This is awesome! Shame I missed the first one. Is this going to be a weekly thing, or biweekly, or other?
If it’s not too bold of me, could I suggest Laura Poitrass & Jakob Applebaum’s talk from 31c3? It’s an overview style talk about the general areas of surveillance and crypto.
I am starting to feel better, thanks =)
For a future event I recommend "How governments have tried to block Tor"
from 28c3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DX46Qv_b7F4
Engaging and hilarious stories.
I’ve added an event to the MHV calendar for next Friday, the 6th of Feb.
I suggest setting the starting time to 6pm for dinner and 6:30 for the talks this time, we didn’t get started at 5:30 last time - how does that suit people?
