{"id":81,"date":"2007-05-19T08:33:31","date_gmt":"2007-05-19T08:33:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/?p=81"},"modified":"2007-05-19T08:33:31","modified_gmt":"2007-05-19T08:33:31","slug":"hack-day-badges-the-invites-are-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/2007\/05\/hack-day-badges-the-invites-are-out\/","title":{"rendered":"Hack Day Badges &#8211; The invites are out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- Hack Day button 180px wide by 105px tall --><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hackday.org\" style=\"border: none; padding: 0px; margin: 0px\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/l.yimg.com\/us.yimg.com\/i\/us\/ydn\/hackday\/hack_day_pattern_eight.gif?resize=180%2C105\" alt=\"Hack Day: London, June 16\/17 2007\" width=\"180\" height=\"105\" style=\"border: none; margin: 0; padding-left:5px ;\" align=\"right\"><\/a><!-- Hack Day button ends -->Exciting news if you&#8217;re applying for or have applied for tickets for <a href=\"http:\/\/hackday.org\">Hack Day<\/a> &#8211; first of all we&#8217;ve just sent out the first 300 invites to people who have applied &#8211; we have about 150 left to do &#8211; that essentially means there are few places left, so if you&#8217;ve not got your name down &#8211; now is the time to do it.<\/p>\n<p>The last week has been incredibly hectic. I&#8217;ve been up to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alexandrapalace.com\/westhall_conf_floorplan.html\">Ally Pally<\/a> twice to sort the final layouts,  I&#8217;ve also been working on the fine detail of the event structure and how everything will fit together &#8211; the biggest problem is how to keep 500+ bandwidth hungry users spread over the West Hall in an even way so that we don&#8217;t swamp any of the APs. I think we&#8217;ve solved that now thanks to some intelligent layout and clever thin client APs but ultimately down to <a href=\"http:\/\/plasticbag.org\/\">Tom Coates<\/a> idea of a Wi-Fi &#8216;weather map&#8217; &#8211; the idea being that on the main screen in the hall we&#8217;ll show every 10 mins or so where the best places are for good clear bandwidth and where clumping is occurring &#8211; giving everyone the opportunity to migrate to different hot spots to get the best signal.<\/p>\n<p>The other really cool piece of news is that Tom Scott from the <a href=\"http:\/\/backstage.bbc.co.uk\">backstage list<\/a> has put together an unofficial wiki for people to get themselves set up for the event before they come.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Okay &#8211; in an effort to cut off the massive flow of &#8220;I&#8217;m attending, want<br \/>\nto make a team&#8221; traffic that I&#8217;ve already contributed to &#8211; and because<br \/>\nthere seems to be no other official discussion routes! &#8211; I&#8217;ve set up<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/hackdaylondon.pbwiki.com\">http:\/\/hackdaylondon.pbwiki.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>as a strictly unofficial Wiki site. Hopefully it&#8217;ll be a useful<br \/>\ndiscussion point as it is for BarCamp &#8211; there&#8217;s a starting template for<br \/>\nteam lists and interests, useful links, etc. etc.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;ll probably get overtaken by an official discussion board at some<br \/>\npoint, but it should do in the meantime!<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Tom<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\n&#8230; and as you&#8217;ve seen at the beginning of this message there are now a very nice collection of badges to slap on your blog &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/hackday.org\/badges\">go grab them over at the hackday.org site<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Exciting news if you&#8217;re applying for or have applied for tickets for Hack Day &#8211; first of all we&#8217;ve just sent out the first 300 invites to people who have applied &#8211; we have about 150 left to do &#8211; that essentially means there are few places left, so if you&#8217;ve not got your name &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/2007\/05\/hack-day-badges-the-invites-are-out\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Hack Day Badges &#8211; The invites are out&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hack-day","category-hackday"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}