Darvozweek Andrew's Metanotes

This is how I remember what I was thinking at the time. This is a Sensemaking exercise.

Darvozweek Day 1 Liquid Wiki

This is the first all day conference where I am live-blogging using Federated Wiki.

#BarcampNFP is still fresh in my mind. I am taking my learnings forward from that last unconference.

Sitting in a room with some attendees on Zoom.

Staying focused by concentrating on narrating, not actually thinking or researching other than the links.

Just realised as I do a break out session, I'm not narrating about the whole group activity.

Am reminded in our online discussion that arises questions and answers, that our aims constantly need to be clarified as each individual has differing needs for specific and general-level aim-visioning.

Remember to invite shy online conference attendees they can lurk in comfort with video and mic muted.

Darvozweek Day 2, eavesdropping on the coders.

The technique to live-blog with very modest stub articles has been a success in time-management terms. I have followed Ward Cunningham's advice to resist creating dead-end links or blank articles and I feel it works better for me as a productivity tool.

David uses the same Zoom link for each conference in the hackathon, which enables participants to bookmark it easily.

Darvozweek Day 3 Trevor's presentation

Before a fedwiki note taking session, collect stub articles from wikipedia that will be key topic markers. This accelerates the note taking process.

Darvozweek Day 4 Argument Mapping

A quieter day to start with, time to write more thoughtful pieces. Thanks Habib Belaribi for your feedback notes. Linking to the code is something I realise now is of the greatest importance.

A hackathon event has multiple systems in a cascade; from the workings/hospitality of the space, the social interactions of the attendees, and the dynamics of the hack-goal oriented behaviours.

I just realised I find the process so therapeutic because I can control the speed I'm working at, and because writing like this is so methodical.

Using OneTab to deal with a collection of links submitted by participants has proved an important part of hackathon scribing practice, the recording of contributions.

Just realised that you benefit with a rough cue-script with some pre-canned questions and comments before you start a livestreamed conference. Interrupt an unwarranted long speech with a question or recap.

Darvozweek Day 5 Platform Earth

Infastructure, background and backchannel.

Thinking about the theatre of the oppressed and the work of Augusto Boal. (This is in respect of evaluating Facilitation technique.)

I was coached into overseeing the video and sound production techniques, including Zoom recording.

The space is always subtly reconfiguring to accommodate the process, even the way chairs are positioned matters.

Darvozweek Day 6 Future of Wiki

We have nylon beanbags and I'm finally getting this. Sitting comfortably for the first time all week, thanks to Wikimedia UK.

Meeting lovely people from Wikimedia.

Starting to formulate the nucleus of a Conference Dashboard idea.

Through conference and online discussion, learnt about Twine which could provide the basis of some training materials for future groupwork.

I found the Argument Mapping Chat and added the link to Day 4.

I discover this viewpoint from our remote particpants: Hack Platform Earth

Darvozweek Day 7 is Democracy themed

4 topics, 4 sessions

Break-outs in Zoom are tried out, but we need mic checks before doing Room'n'Zoom.

The discussions of topics and persons which require background knowledge show how challenging it is to facilitate neutrally.

I am becoming familiar with the workings of Zoom.