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We could use some extra people on the project team, in particular people with hardware hacking expertise.
 
We could use some extra people on the project team, in particular people with hardware hacking expertise.

Revision as of 21:38, 25 October 2016

Flyingcircus
1st line contacts: berz_
Does: Organize the flying circus
Does not:
Contact:
IRC: #sha2017-flyingcircus
Deadlines:
Needed resources:
Comment:
Vacancies: 0
Current project size / amount of ppl: 6
Contact at projectleiding: User:Berz


About

Artist's rendition of what the flying circus could be like

The flying circus is an area of the field dedicated to all things hardware hacking. It will provide open workshops for different areas of expertise such as metalworking, electronics and CNC machining. We will also provide infrastructure for people that want to give workshops or present hardware related talks.

The project was announced during a lightning talk during SHA2017 orga meeting 20160924: recording of the presentation, slides.

Organisation

Project Team

At the moment the project team consists of:

  1. Gameoflife.png berz_ Nickname: berz_

    Team: Team:Flyingcircus

    HackerSpace: VoidWarranties

  2. Gameoflife.png Gori Nickname: Gori

    Team: Team:Flyingcircus

    HackerSpace: RevSpace

  3. User Yashiko Picture.jpg Yashiko Nickname: Yashiko

    Team: Team:Flyingcircus

    Role: Decoration / Design

    HackerSpace: Walking Robot

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  5. Gameoflife.png Warddr Nickname: Warddr

    Team: Team:Flyingcircus

    Role: Electronics

    HackerSpace: Voidwarranties,HSBXL

  6. Gameoflife.png Tomvdz Nickname: Tomvdz

    Team: Team:Flyingcircus

    Role: Decoration / Design

    HackerSpace: VoidWarranties, Walking Robot

  7. Gameoflife.png lievenstandaert Nickname: lievenstandaert

    Team: Team:Flyingcircus

    Role: has broom

    HackerSpace: Fablab Brussels

We could use some extra people on the project team, in particular people with hardware hacking expertise.

Communication

Some hackers we are working with to realize this project have more expertise in the hardware side of things and are relatively unexperienced in software related matters. While most teams use irc and mailinglists for internal communication, in our case this would exclude some talented people from contributing to our project. Because usability is more important for us than some other teams choices made in this regard might diverge from what is usually used.

  • wiki: Information for public consumption will be published on the project's wiki page and the pages it links to.
  • irc: #sha2017-flyingcircus on freenode
  • etherpad: Information meant for consumption by the project team only is stored on the etherpad. https://pad.sha2017.org/p/flying_circus
  • Slack: used for communication within the project team: https://sha-flyingcircus.slack.com/messages/general/
  • email: we would like to set up an email adress that can be used to contact the project team. eg. flyingcircus@sha2017.org, which gets forwarded to some people on the team (ie: not a mailing list). Todo: contact team:sysadmin.

Workshops

At the moment we are organising the workshops by discipline, as we do not know how they will be laid out in the various tents yet. We want to provide workshops for these disciplines:

  • metalworking
  • smithing
  • woodworking
  • textiles and leather
  • digital and analog electronics
  • fablab: 3d printers, lasercutters ...

A list of required tools and materials for every workshop can be found here: Projects:Flyingcircus/Tools and materials.

We would love to provide workshops for other disciplines (jewellery making, fashion design, so much stuff to learn about). But for this to become a reality we would need enough people knowledgeable in that discipline that want to help out, set up, and staff that workshop.

Teams per dicipline

Feel free to add yourself to a discipline you have some experience with!

We will reach out to these people if we have questions related to their dicipline, like how to set up that workshop or which machines are needed.

In the future we will also ask them if they want to help out supervising their discipline's workshop during the camp. We need at least one supervisor in every workshop to ensure proper use of tools and to assist people. This is necessary to prevent damage to both people and equipment. Otherwise it would not be possible for us to provide dangerous tools or borrow expensive machines that could break if used incorrectly. We are going to need a lot of supervisers.

Use of workshops during buildup

The workshops can be used by other teams during buildup. For example team decoration can use the woodshop to build signage. We do need to know this in advance though, so we can plan our buildup schedule accordingly.

Team Necesarry equipment By when
decoration  ?  ?

Content

We will provide a space for people to hold workshops and a space to hold smaller (max 200 people) hardware related talks.

We are reaching out to people that might be interested in giving a talk or a workshop. All content will be added to the camp's program by creating a self-organized session in frab.

We see some opportunity for collaboration with team content, some examples:

  • If we attract a well known speaker whose talk would exceed our talk tent we will forward her to team-content
  • team content could forward speakers to us if the subject matter is hardware related and of interest to a smaller audience
  • It would be nice to encourage speakers who do a hardware related talk in one of the main tents to do a hands on workshop afterwards.

Market

Consumable materials are needed to build physical projects. Lasercutters need sheet goods, chips and resistors are needed for electronic projects and the woodshop needs wood. It doesn't make sense to provide a large array of tools if the assorted building materials are not present on site. Therefore we will set up a marketplace where people can buy what they require.

If possible we prefer goods to be sold by independent vendors since this means we don't have to go through the effort of acquiring, managing and selling the stock. This also includes people selling project kits. Items and materials that are necessary but which are not sold by an independent vendor will be sold by us.

We will only be able have a basic selection of items and materials on stock, a wider assortment is not possible due to a lack of storage space and the large upfront investment this would entail. However we could provide just-in-time deliveries during the camp. People would be able to order items which would then be fetched during daily(?) trips to the hardware store. We would also like to have daily Farnell deliveries, but this would mean convincing them to deliver on weekends. "Sorry, we don't have that chip in stock, but if you pay in advance we can have it here by tomorrow at noon." would be nice.

The emphasis of the marketplace should be to make things available, not to make money. We will sell items for about their purchasing price and kick out vendors that are overly commercially.

Decoration

We know from experience organizing hardware hacking areas at OHM2013 and CCC camp 2015 that decoration has a large impact on atmosphere. The flying circus will have its own theme containing circus, steampunk, industial and monty python design elements. Creating this experience would be easier if we have some vaguelly circus-like tents, as a cluster of sterile white tents doesn't come across as a welcoming place for creativity, building and learning.

Risk managment

We are aware there are many risks present in the Flying Circus: the woodworking area can catch fire, the spray booth could explode, dangerous chemicals will be present to etch pcb's and circular saws will kill you if used incorrectly. We are working pro-actively to mitigate these risks, some people on the project team have had safety and security training and we will coordinate our efforts with team Permit and team Safety and Security once more details are known.