Happy campers

[Treee]

Hello!

I've read the information on the wiki about villages, but was wondering how it will work for people who aren't initially part of one? Will there be a general camping area, and/or some way of finding out which villages are happy (and still have space) for others to join them? Imagine the wiki might still be used for noticeboard-type stuff like that during the event, but wondered if that's what's planned? Am sure we'll meet people over the course of the weekend, but we probably want to pitch our tent before that ;)

Cheers,

T

[Jon Wood]

I'm interested in this as well... would it be horribly meta to create an unaffiliated villagers village?

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[José Manuel Díez Lopez]

I'd join an unaffiliated villagers' village.

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[Bacon Zombie]

I know there is some others from the Dublin HackerSpace heading over but don't see an official village on the wiki.

But think an unaffiliated village sound like great crack and a way to meet new people. So sign me up.

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[Adam McGreggor]

On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 06:28:47PM +0100, Bacon Zombie wrote:
> But think an unaffiliated village sound like great crack and a way to meet
> new people. So sign me up.

In previous experience, camping with unknowns is a good
ice-breaker/way to meet new people, so, erm, here's my +1.

Time for another wiki page?

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[Jon Wood]

Awesome! I'm out at the moment, but if no one else has done by the time I'm home I'll try to sort something out.

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[AliBarber]

Sounds like a great plan - I'm attending alone :( - so would be great to meet other folk from the start! 

[Tracey Booth]

+2 for a Village of the Damned Unaffiliated :) 

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[David Rickmann]

Also +1 for a village of the unafilliated.

I would like that very much.

[David Rickmann]

I've added an unaffiliated village page on the wiki here:

http://wiki.emfcamp.org/wiki/The_unaffiliated_villagers 

Linked from the villages page.

Now we just need to figure out where and how to site our village and if need anything for it 

(communal barbecue/fire would be pretty good)

On Tuesday, 28 August 2012 21:15:31 UTC+1, Treee wrote:

[Jon Wood]

How does village setup work? Do we get assigned a spot, or do we have to find one ourselves, and then find a way of communicating that to others? If the latter, then I guess we need some way of letting everyone know where we are.

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[David Rickmann]

From the wiki page it looks relatively informal.

We could probably do with a flag or something.

[Mark Steward]

The latter - best to create a section on the Villages page on the wiki, and tell people to check that.

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[David Rickmann]

Wiki link here with all the details. (such as they are)

http://wiki.emfcamp.org/wiki/The_unaffiliated_villagers

[José Manuel Díez Lopez]

srvaroa and I will be arriving late thursday / very early friday, so we could probably pick a good spot and put the GPS coordinates on the wiki / set up a flag.

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[Stik]

GPS coords would be ideal.  Flag might be hard to spot anyhow as i believe the campsite is in the trees, so unless you can find a very big flag pole it's not going to help much :)

[José Manuel Díez Lopez]

Maybe we can gather some bright LEDs and make them broadcast "UNAFFILIATED" in Morse? 

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[Jon Wood]

How about a radio transmitter which can be found be triangulating in on the signal?

[José Manuel Díez Lopez]

Hmmm... that's clever, but which frequency? Certainly 433 MHz transmitters are easy to setup.

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[Dave Ingram]

Why not just a high-powered laser pointing skywards? Because, you know, lasers.

(NB: has to be high-powered enough to be visible in daylight... a few W should do, but may be overkill)


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[José Manuel Díez Lopez]

Lasers. :D 

If someone could bring a high-powered laser, that'd be awesome.

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[Adam McGreggor]

On Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 06:36:27PM +0200, Jos� Manuel D�ez Lopez wrote:
> Lasers. :D
>
> If someone could bring a high-powered laser, that'd be awesome.

It's going to be a wet piece of paper that's been gaffer-taped to the
first/largest tent, isn't it?


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[JonnyB]

Ahoy guys,

I'm not coming with anyone. Can I join the unaffiliated vilalgers?
I can bring some vodka.
I'm hopefully arriving around 1-ish.

[Bacon Zombie]

Wodka is an acceptable offering, Welcome aboard.

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[Koen Martens]

On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 02:30:58PM -0700, David Rickmann wrote:
> Also +1 for a village of the unafilliated.
> I would like that very much.

May I also propose a village for the overly affiliated?? :)

- gmc

[José Manuel Díez Lopez]

Hello:

Just wanted to let y'all know that srvaroa and I have already picked a spot for the unaffiliated village. We are close to a Datenklo and behind the locksmith tent.

The accurate GPS coordinates are on the wiki page: http://wiki.emfcamp.org/wiki/The_unaffiliated_villagers

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