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Talks

2014-09-01T21:24:42Z

Yaxu: /* Stage A */

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Thank you to everyone who gave a talk. If you didn't, then you should start thinking about what you could talk about at EMF 2016. The talk and workshop schedule can be found [https://frab.emfcamp.org/en/EMF2014/public/schedule/0 here].

There is a list of talks below, including links to resources from the talks and videos when available. If you gave a talk, please add anything which people light like to look back at (eg. suggested reading/resources, links to books on Amazon, templates for making anything you talked about).

==Friday==
===Stage A===
{| class=wikitable
! Title
! Speaker
! Video
!Resources
|-
| EMF 2014 Opening ceremony
| Jonty Wareing
|
|
|-
|High Altitude Ballooning
| Adam Greig
|
|
|-
|The Science of Hedonism and the Hedonism of Science
| Zoe Cormier
|
|
|-
|Games Minus Industry
| David Hayward
|
|
|-
|How to be an Effective Terrorist: fear and loathing in cyber security
| Dr Jessica Barker
|
|
|-
|Hacking the ZX Spectrum
| Ben Heck
|
|
|-
|The three main parties railroaded the Data Retention Act through in a week. Where does the fightback begin?
| Tom Watson MP
|
|
|-
|Showing keys in public: What could possibly go wrong?
|Jos Weyers
|
|
|-
|Gasman's ZX Spectrum Chiptune Extravaganza
| Matt Westcott
|
|
|-
|Dermot Jones plays Spanish guitar
|Dermot Jones
|
|
|-
|Live coded techno
| [http://yaxu.org/ Yaxu (Alex McLean)]
|
| Software used was [http://yaxu.org/tidal/ Tidal]. More on [http://toplap.org live coding], [http://algorave.com/ algorave]
|}

===Stage B===
{| class=wikitable
! Title
! Speaker
! Video
!Resources
|-
| How Many Bugs Can a Time Server Have?
| Mike Emery & Tim Brown
|
|
|-
| Tastes Great, Less Wordy: Document Natural Language Processing (for Beer)
| Ben Fields
|
|
|-
| Not Safe For Work: Industrial Control System Security
| bsb
|
|
|-
| The Making Of The·Grid
| Adam Greig, David Turner
|
|
|-
| How buying multiple train tickets can be much cheaper than one
| Matthew Somerville
|
|
|-
| Amateur Radio: The Original Nerd Hobby!
| Ryan Sayre
|
|
|-
| The ZX Spectrum - a secret history
| Matt Westcott
|
|}
===Stage C===
{| class=wikitable
! Title
! Speaker
! Video
!Resources
|-
| BaseBot
| Tom Oinn
|
|
|-
| The Security of the Internet of Things
| José Díez
|
|
|-
| Cryptris
| Scary Boots
|
|
|-
| Can open data help save the world?
| Gavin Starks
|
|
|-
| Lightning Talks
|
|
|
|-
| Fuzzy Fuzzy Logic
| Joe Nash
|
|
|}
==Saturday==
===Stage A===
{| class=wikitable
! Title
! Speaker
! Video
!Resources
|-
| Perfect session management in privacy-sensitive web applications
| Elger ""Stitch"" Jonker
|
|
|-
| Materials and Makers
| Deb Chachra
|
|
|-
| UCL Family Geek Showoff
|
|
|
|-
| Build your own quadrotor from scratch
| Gavan Fantom
|
|
|-
| Alex Through The Looking Glass: How Life Reflects Numbers and Numbers Reflect Life
| Alex Bellos
|
|
|-
| 5 Scientific Tools That'll Blow Your Mind
| DC
|
|
|-
| We don't need no stinkin' tension wrenches
| Rob Wiegertjes
|
|
|-
| How we spent a year building a spaceship simulator in a caravan
| Tom Wyatt
|
|
|-
| Reading Hitler's Mind: Bletchley Park and The First Computer
| PJ Evans
|
|
|-
| An Operator's Guide to the Enigma Cipher Machine
| Simon Singh
|
|
|-
| UCL Geek Showoff
|
|
|
|-
| Fakebit Polytechnic
| Dave Green & Dave Pape
|
|
|-
| The 55th Flotilla (Live)
| The 55th Flotilla
|
|
|-
| 2xAA plays his Game Boy
| 2xAA
|
|
|-
| The 55th Flotilla (DJ set)
|
|
|
|}
===Stage B===
{| class=wikitable
! Title
! Speaker
! Video
!Resources
|-
| What do we have in Computers?
| Tom Hall
|
|
|-
| LaserTag - How Quasar works
| Michael Turner
|
|
|-
| Emojli: How we accidentally built an app and why we never want to build one again.
| Matt Gray, Tom Scott
| [http://youtu.be/GsyhGHUEt-k YouTube]
|
|-
| The Archers Avoider
| Libby Miller
|
|
|-
| Introduction to Information Security and Privacy
| Arjen Kamphuis
|
|
|-
| Beyond Materials: Invisibility and Perfect Imaging
| Dr Saul J. Wiggin
|
|
|-
| How to stand for Parliament
| James Smith
|
|
|-
| Where Games Break
| Hannah Nicklin
|
|
|-
| Hacking and healthcare
| Amran
|
|
|-
| Vandalising your Github commit history for fun and profit
| Sam Pikesley
|
|
|-
| Learning to Make – How I built an electromechanical display and taught myself basic electronics
| Tom Lynch
|
|
|-
| MEGA GIRP
| George Buckenham
|
|
|}

===Stage C===
{| class=wikitable
! Title
! Speaker
! Video
!Resources
|-
| The Dilemmas of Sci-Fi (And How They're Dealt With)
| Ashton Clarke
|
|
|-
| The digital democracy dream
| Dan Jellinek
|
|
|-
| Mesh Your Brain
| Alex (Merlin) Glowaski
|
|
|-
| Hackerspaces and Diversity
| Amran
|
|
|-
| Walt Disney World: This was supposed to be the future
| Dan W
|
|
|-
| The softprinter
| Tom Myers
|
|
|-
| How to use Twilio in ten minutes flat
|
|
|
|-
| Programming for impostors and scientists
| Jane Charlesworth
|
|
|-
| Make metal castings from 3D Printed Moulds
| Calum Douglas
|
|
|-
| SimPrints: Low-cost fingerprint scanners for the developing world
| SimPrints
|
|
|-
| Lightning Talks
|
|
|
|-
| Multicast experiment: Who's on?
|
|
|
|-
| Security Quiz!
| Elger ""Stitch"" Jonker "
|
|
|}
==Sunday==
===Stage A===
{| class=wikitable
! Title
! Speaker
! Video
!Resources
|-
| Point Of Sale Device tricks: You could…live for free!
| Greg Fragkos
|
|
|-
| Recreational Maths in a Field: Flexagons, Folding Tube Maps & Braiding
| [https://twitter.com/mscroggs Matthew Scroggs]
|
| Full write up coming soon. Until then you can get [http://legavrik.blogspot.co.uk/search/label/Flexagons Flexagon templates] and [http://legavrik.blogspot.co.uk/search/label/Folding%20Tube%20Maps Folding Tube Maps] instructions
|-
| Telling stories about tech
| Alice Bell
|
|
|-
| History of Rocketry
| Jon London
|
|
|-
| Glass music, the nervous system, mesmerism and the threshold of beauty and harmony
| Erica MacArthur
|
|
|-
| My Container Ship Holiday Slideshow
| Dan W
|
|
|-
| Hacking biometric security
| Nigel K Tolley
|
|
|-
| Miracle cures, superpowers and the zombie apocalypse
| Christopher Binny
|
|
|-
| Collaborative Science Fiction Film made at EMF
| MISS ALIA SHEIKH
|
|
|-
| Demoscene Showcase
| Crypt and Rebelli0n
|
|
|-
| [[Feedback|EMF 2014 retrospective: What did we do right?]]
|
|
|
|-
| EMF 2014 Closing ceremony
| Jonty Wareing
|
|
|-
| Singer-Songwriter Hannah Howe
| Hannah Howe
|
|
|-
| Gasman's ZX Spectrum Chiptune Extravaganza Part II
| Matt Westcott
|
|
|-
| Experimental/Noise DJ-Set/Performance
| MusicaDispersa
|
|
|}

===Stage B===
{| class=wikitable
! Title
! Speaker
! Video
!Resources
|-
| Why are computers so @#!*, and what can we do about it?
| [http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~pes20 Peter Sewell]
|
| [http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~pes20/slides-2014-08-emf.pdf slides]
|-
| Hexayurts, Distributed Infrastructure, and Maximizing Global Minimalism
| Vinay Gupta
|
|
|-
| A brief guide to dog behaviour and human interaction
| Stuart Livings
|
| [[magnet:?xt=urn:btih:d8692fd28f7290cc2cddf953934982ca73bcaf5a&dn=Guide%20to%20Dog%20Behaviour%20and%20Human%20Interaction Magnet Link]]
|-
| Zoë Star; Neurotic IoT Machines from an Alternate Reality
| Rachel Rayns
|
|
|-
| Disruptive disintermediation: selling open digital health services to the NHS
| Carl Reynolds
|
|
|-
| Robotics and Computer Vision with MATLAB and Simulink
| Owen McAree
|
|
|-
| USB tinkering for hackers and makers
| Dominic Spill
|
|
|-
| Evading Anti-virus
| Mark A Williams
|
|
|-
| Trials and tribulations of a badge project
| Matt Lloyd
|
|
|-
| DDD: Disney Driven Development
| Melinda Seckington
|
|
|-
| Q&A on Physical Security with the worlds greatest lock hackers
| Jos Weyers, Nigel K Tolley
|
|
|-
| EMF network in a field 2014
| David Croft, Will Hargrave
|
|
|}

===Stage C===
{| class=wikitable
! Title
! Speaker
! Video
!Resources
|-
| How to catch a cat burglar with a Slice of Pi
| Derek Scuffell
|
|
|-
| Minimal effort web application security (a.k.a. how to make my job harder)
| Graham Sutherland
|
|
|-
| A look at Linux containers, what they do and what they don't
| David Leadbeater
|
|
|-
| Run your own infrastructure II
| mc.fly
|
|
|-
| Our Data, Ourselves
| Giles Greenway
|
|
|-
| Machine learning and its use in creepy internet stalking
| Maria Han Veiga
|
|
|-
| Open Space Projects
| Stephanie Pau
|
|
|-
| bach.js, an unhistory of how the great Baroque composer pioneered Javascript, 250 years before Netscape even existed
| James Aylett
|
|
|-
| Lightning Talks
|
|
|
|-
| Surreal Numbers And Mathematical Games
| [https://twitter.com/thattommyhall Tom Hall]
|
| [https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/16vTWDHBplrFDwndqzTURAV0s7OoAEy9KR58dTh8WXVY/edit slides on Google Docs]
|-
| Security Quiz!
|
|
|
|}

Talks

2014-09-01T21:23:31Z

Yaxu: /* Stage A */

{{link-banner}}

Thank you to everyone who gave a talk. If you didn't, then you should start thinking about what you could talk about at EMF 2016. The talk and workshop schedule can be found [https://frab.emfcamp.org/en/EMF2014/public/schedule/0 here].

There is a list of talks below, including links to resources from the talks and videos when available. If you gave a talk, please add anything which people light like to look back at (eg. suggested reading/resources, links to books on Amazon, templates for making anything you talked about).

==Friday==
===Stage A===
{| class=wikitable
! Title
! Speaker
! Video
!Resources
|-
| EMF 2014 Opening ceremony
| Jonty Wareing
|
|
|-
|High Altitude Ballooning
| Adam Greig
|
|
|-
|The Science of Hedonism and the Hedonism of Science
| Zoe Cormier
|
|
|-
|Games Minus Industry
| David Hayward
|
|
|-
|How to be an Effective Terrorist: fear and loathing in cyber security
| Dr Jessica Barker
|
|
|-
|Hacking the ZX Spectrum
| Ben Heck
|
|
|-
|The three main parties railroaded the Data Retention Act through in a week. Where does the fightback begin?
| Tom Watson MP
|
|
|-
|Showing keys in public: What could possibly go wrong?
|Jos Weyers
|
|
|-
|Gasman's ZX Spectrum Chiptune Extravaganza
| Matt Westcott
|
|
|-
|Dermot Jones plays Spanish guitar
|Dermot Jones
|
|
|-
|Live coded techno
| [http://yaxu.org/ Yaxu (Alex McLean)]
|
| Software used: [http://yaxu.org/tidal/ Tidal], [http://toplap.org live coding info], [http://algorave.com/ algorave info]
|}

===Stage B===
{| class=wikitable
! Title
! Speaker
! Video
!Resources
|-
| How Many Bugs Can a Time Server Have?
| Mike Emery & Tim Brown
|
|
|-
| Tastes Great, Less Wordy: Document Natural Language Processing (for Beer)
| Ben Fields
|
|
|-
| Not Safe For Work: Industrial Control System Security
| bsb
|
|
|-
| The Making Of The·Grid
| Adam Greig, David Turner
|
|
|-
| How buying multiple train tickets can be much cheaper than one
| Matthew Somerville
|
|
|-
| Amateur Radio: The Original Nerd Hobby!
| Ryan Sayre
|
|
|-
| The ZX Spectrum - a secret history
| Matt Westcott
|
|}
===Stage C===
{| class=wikitable
! Title
! Speaker
! Video
!Resources
|-
| BaseBot
| Tom Oinn
|
|
|-
| The Security of the Internet of Things
| José Díez
|
|
|-
| Cryptris
| Scary Boots
|
|
|-
| Can open data help save the world?
| Gavin Starks
|
|
|-
| Lightning Talks
|
|
|
|-
| Fuzzy Fuzzy Logic
| Joe Nash
|
|
|}
==Saturday==
===Stage A===
{| class=wikitable
! Title
! Speaker
! Video
!Resources
|-
| Perfect session management in privacy-sensitive web applications
| Elger ""Stitch"" Jonker
|
|
|-
| Materials and Makers
| Deb Chachra
|
|
|-
| UCL Family Geek Showoff
|
|
|
|-
| Build your own quadrotor from scratch
| Gavan Fantom
|
|
|-
| Alex Through The Looking Glass: How Life Reflects Numbers and Numbers Reflect Life
| Alex Bellos
|
|
|-
| 5 Scientific Tools That'll Blow Your Mind
| DC
|
|
|-
| We don't need no stinkin' tension wrenches
| Rob Wiegertjes
|
|
|-
| How we spent a year building a spaceship simulator in a caravan
| Tom Wyatt
|
|
|-
| Reading Hitler's Mind: Bletchley Park and The First Computer
| PJ Evans
|
|
|-
| An Operator's Guide to the Enigma Cipher Machine
| Simon Singh
|
|
|-
| UCL Geek Showoff
|
|
|
|-
| Fakebit Polytechnic
| Dave Green & Dave Pape
|
|
|-
| The 55th Flotilla (Live)
| The 55th Flotilla
|
|
|-
| 2xAA plays his Game Boy
| 2xAA
|
|
|-
| The 55th Flotilla (DJ set)
|
|
|
|}
===Stage B===
{| class=wikitable
! Title
! Speaker
! Video
!Resources
|-
| What do we have in Computers?
| Tom Hall
|
|
|-
| LaserTag - How Quasar works
| Michael Turner
|
|
|-
| Emojli: How we accidentally built an app and why we never want to build one again.
| Matt Gray, Tom Scott
| [http://youtu.be/GsyhGHUEt-k YouTube]
|
|-
| The Archers Avoider
| Libby Miller
|
|
|-
| Introduction to Information Security and Privacy
| Arjen Kamphuis
|
|
|-
| Beyond Materials: Invisibility and Perfect Imaging
| Dr Saul J. Wiggin
|
|
|-
| How to stand for Parliament
| James Smith
|
|
|-
| Where Games Break
| Hannah Nicklin
|
|
|-
| Hacking and healthcare
| Amran
|
|
|-
| Vandalising your Github commit history for fun and profit
| Sam Pikesley
|
|
|-
| Learning to Make – How I built an electromechanical display and taught myself basic electronics
| Tom Lynch
|
|
|-
| MEGA GIRP
| George Buckenham
|
|
|}

===Stage C===
{| class=wikitable
! Title
! Speaker
! Video
!Resources
|-
| The Dilemmas of Sci-Fi (And How They're Dealt With)
| Ashton Clarke
|
|
|-
| The digital democracy dream
| Dan Jellinek
|
|
|-
| Mesh Your Brain
| Alex (Merlin) Glowaski
|
|
|-
| Hackerspaces and Diversity
| Amran
|
|
|-
| Walt Disney World: This was supposed to be the future
| Dan W
|
|
|-
| The softprinter
| Tom Myers
|
|
|-
| How to use Twilio in ten minutes flat
|
|
|
|-
| Programming for impostors and scientists
| Jane Charlesworth
|
|
|-
| Make metal castings from 3D Printed Moulds
| Calum Douglas
|
|
|-
| SimPrints: Low-cost fingerprint scanners for the developing world
| SimPrints
|
|
|-
| Lightning Talks
|
|
|
|-
| Multicast experiment: Who's on?
|
|
|
|-
| Security Quiz!
| Elger ""Stitch"" Jonker "
|
|
|}
==Sunday==
===Stage A===
{| class=wikitable
! Title
! Speaker
! Video
!Resources
|-
| Point Of Sale Device tricks: You could…live for free!
| Greg Fragkos
|
|
|-
| Recreational Maths in a Field: Flexagons, Folding Tube Maps & Braiding
| [https://twitter.com/mscroggs Matthew Scroggs]
|
| Full write up coming soon. Until then you can get [http://legavrik.blogspot.co.uk/search/label/Flexagons Flexagon templates] and [http://legavrik.blogspot.co.uk/search/label/Folding%20Tube%20Maps Folding Tube Maps] instructions
|-
| Telling stories about tech
| Alice Bell
|
|
|-
| History of Rocketry
| Jon London
|
|
|-
| Glass music, the nervous system, mesmerism and the threshold of beauty and harmony
| Erica MacArthur
|
|
|-
| My Container Ship Holiday Slideshow
| Dan W
|
|
|-
| Hacking biometric security
| Nigel K Tolley
|
|
|-
| Miracle cures, superpowers and the zombie apocalypse
| Christopher Binny
|
|
|-
| Collaborative Science Fiction Film made at EMF
| MISS ALIA SHEIKH
|
|
|-
| Demoscene Showcase
| Crypt and Rebelli0n
|
|
|-
| [[Feedback|EMF 2014 retrospective: What did we do right?]]
|
|
|
|-
| EMF 2014 Closing ceremony
| Jonty Wareing
|
|
|-
| Singer-Songwriter Hannah Howe
| Hannah Howe
|
|
|-
| Gasman's ZX Spectrum Chiptune Extravaganza Part II
| Matt Westcott
|
|
|-
| Experimental/Noise DJ-Set/Performance
| MusicaDispersa
|
|
|}

===Stage B===
{| class=wikitable
! Title
! Speaker
! Video
!Resources
|-
| Why are computers so @#!*, and what can we do about it?
| [http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~pes20 Peter Sewell]
|
| [http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~pes20/slides-2014-08-emf.pdf slides]
|-
| Hexayurts, Distributed Infrastructure, and Maximizing Global Minimalism
| Vinay Gupta
|
|
|-
| A brief guide to dog behaviour and human interaction
| Stuart Livings
|
| [[magnet:?xt=urn:btih:d8692fd28f7290cc2cddf953934982ca73bcaf5a&dn=Guide%20to%20Dog%20Behaviour%20and%20Human%20Interaction Magnet Link]]
|-
| Zoë Star; Neurotic IoT Machines from an Alternate Reality
| Rachel Rayns
|
|
|-
| Disruptive disintermediation: selling open digital health services to the NHS
| Carl Reynolds
|
|
|-
| Robotics and Computer Vision with MATLAB and Simulink
| Owen McAree
|
|
|-
| USB tinkering for hackers and makers
| Dominic Spill
|
|
|-
| Evading Anti-virus
| Mark A Williams
|
|
|-
| Trials and tribulations of a badge project
| Matt Lloyd
|
|
|-
| DDD: Disney Driven Development
| Melinda Seckington
|
|
|-
| Q&A on Physical Security with the worlds greatest lock hackers
| Jos Weyers, Nigel K Tolley
|
|
|-
| EMF network in a field 2014
| David Croft, Will Hargrave
|
|
|}

===Stage C===
{| class=wikitable
! Title
! Speaker
! Video
!Resources
|-
| How to catch a cat burglar with a Slice of Pi
| Derek Scuffell
|
|
|-
| Minimal effort web application security (a.k.a. how to make my job harder)
| Graham Sutherland
|
|
|-
| A look at Linux containers, what they do and what they don't
| David Leadbeater
|
|
|-
| Run your own infrastructure II
| mc.fly
|
|
|-
| Our Data, Ourselves
| Giles Greenway
|
|
|-
| Machine learning and its use in creepy internet stalking
| Maria Han Veiga
|
|
|-
| Open Space Projects
| Stephanie Pau
|
|
|-
| bach.js, an unhistory of how the great Baroque composer pioneered Javascript, 250 years before Netscape even existed
| James Aylett
|
|
|-
| Lightning Talks
|
|
|
|-
| Surreal Numbers And Mathematical Games
| [https://twitter.com/thattommyhall Tom Hall]
|
| [https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/16vTWDHBplrFDwndqzTURAV0s7OoAEy9KR58dTh8WXVY/edit slides on Google Docs]
|-
| Security Quiz!
|
|
|
|}

Workshops

2014-01-07T16:40:09Z

Yaxu: /* Workshops awaiting official approval */

== Electromagnetic Field 2014 Workshops ==

Workshops are interactive events where you are expected to participate, learn, teach, and have a lot of fun. They range from lockpicking, soldering, debating, pentesting to robotics, making chiptunes and more.

=== Planned workshops ===

No workshops have been confirmed yet, watch this page for updates on this topic!

=== Want to give a workshop? ===

If you are interested in giving a workshop, please let us know on [[IRC]] and/or by adding an entry to this wiki page, like this:

----
'''Workshop Name:''' Example workshop

'''Contact:''' Mr Foo, foo@example.com, 'foo' on IRC

'''Participants:''' 5 to 10

'''Estimated Duration:''' 1 hour

'''Description:''' This workshop will involve water, unicorns and lots of blinkenlights.

'''Prerequisites:''' No special skills needed, but bring swimwear!
----

=== Workshops we'd like to see (suggestions) ===
* More blacksmithery (as per 2012)
* How to make a Klein bottle
* Green woodworking ([[http://www.mallinson.co.uk/courses.html this sort of thing]])
* The headhacking guy
* How to butcher a rabbit
* Stained glass
* Knitting
* Jewelry making (silver clay etc.)

----

=== Workshops awaiting official approval ===

Pending...

----

'''Workshop Name:''' IPv6 Beginners Workshop

'''Contact:''' [[User:danrl|danrl]]

'''Participants:''' up to 8, no more, sorry! please signup (signup process tbd)

'''Estimated Duration:''' 2-3 hours

'''Description:''' We will discover the new Internet Protocol learning about its basics, features and general handling. This workshop is targeted at beginners. Please bring a computer with VirtualBox installed. A basic knowledge about the Internet and IPv4 is recommended. Please also consider attending the advanced IPv6 workshop, if you liked the beginners course.

'''Prerequisites:''' Please download virtual machine images from $tbd _before_ going to the workshop!
----

'''Workshop Name:''' IPv6 Advanced Users Workshop

'''Contact:''' [[User:danrl|danrl]]

'''Participants:''' up to 8, no more, sorry! please signup (signup process tbd)

'''Estimated Duration:''' 2-3 hours

'''Description:''' We will dig deeper into the new Internet Protocol learning about its advanced features, about transition technologies and security issues. This workshop is targeted at advanced users or people who attended the beginners course. The workshop is based on the book IPv6-Workshop and further material from the speakers work as a consultant.
A basic knowledge about IPv6 is required. Please also consider attending the beginners course if you do not have a basic understanding of IPv6 yet. Please bring a computer with VirtualBox installed.

'''Prerequisites:''' Please download virtual machine images from $tbd _before_ going to the workshop!
----

'''Workshop Name:''' Live coding music with Tidal

'''Contact:''' [[User:Yaxu|Alex McLean]]

'''Participants:''' 8 across maybe two workshops, so 16 in total

'''Estimated Duration:''' 2-3 hours

'''Description:''' Explore [http://toplap.org/ live coding] of music using [http://yaxu.org/tidal/ Tidal] and possibly other quick-to-pick-up environments.

'''Prerequisites:''' Bring a laptop and a pair of headphones. No prior experience with programming or music required. If you have macos or linux could install tidal in advance if you wanted, otherwise I'll provide a snapshot which will run on any PC or Mac (inside virtualbox, so safe).
----

Workshops

2014-01-07T16:37:42Z

Yaxu: /* Workshops awaiting official approval */

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2014-01-07T16:34:38Z

Yaxu: Created page with "Alex McLean * Web: http://yaxu.org/ * Twitter: [http://twitter.com/yaxu/ @yaxu]"

Alex McLean

* Web: http://yaxu.org/
* Twitter: [http://twitter.com/yaxu/ @yaxu]

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2013-04-15T14:39:01Z

Yaxu: /* Candidate Sites */

The biggest issue for EMF is to find a good site. Here are our requirements, in order of priority:

* At least 3-8 hectares/8-15 acres/30,000-60,000 sq m (this should fit at least 1500 people but this isn't indicative of our planned capacity)
* Available for around 11 days (including a weekend) between mid-July and mid-September 2014.
* Good access for setup vehicles (no low bridges, for example)
* Ability to get a good internet connection (1 gigabit+) (but please let us know of any potential sites and we can work this out)
* Pleasant enough you actually want to spend time there
* Some kind of water supply/sewage connection
* Good transport links
* Located centrally to the UK
* Well drained
* Space for parking
* Near largish shops (e.g. large Tesco)

We don't care about:

* Most existing facilities (especially electricity). Providing them ourselves is frequently easier than trying to deal with existing services, so they're not a major consideration.

=Candidate Sites=

{|class="wikitable sortable"
! Site Name
! Details
|-
| Colerne Airfield, Wiltshire (nr Bath)
| Owned by a company of a friend of London Hackspace
|-
| [http://www.profounddecisions.co.uk/wicket/bookmarkable/uk.co.profounddecisions.website.pages.pdpages.event.tournamentstud.DirectionsTournamentStud?4 Profound Decisions location], Banbury
| Quite a lot of existing facilities here which we may be able to use. These guys provided our tents in 2012 and seem pretty keen.
|-
| [http://eventcentre.co.uk/organisers Yorkshire Event Centre, Harrogate]
| Site of the Great Yorkshire Show which has massive farm equipment so access is probably fine. Has event spaces, big outside areas, loads of parking. Sainsburys effectively on site. From memory, drainage is OK.
|-
| Turnpost Farm, Leicestershire
| Location of Glastonbudget. About 4 miles from Loughborough. Not sure of parking and amenities, but Glastonbudget has about 12,000 people so likely to be plenty of space if we can use some of that as car park
|-
| [http://www.peterborougharena.com/ Peterborough Arena and Showground]
| Seems very accessible by all sorts of vehicles and good public transport links. Arena has internet, so should be easy to roll out to the showgrounds. Close to Peterborough for shops and things.
|-
| [http://www.newarkshowground.com/ Newark Showground]
| Similar to Peterborough I guess. Perhaps a tad large. 84 acres, fenced, good drainage, a range of indoor spaces (max 4000 capacity), 2 miles from train station (2h15 from kings x), lots of parking, in house catering available
|-
| [http://www.doncaster-racecourse.co.uk/events/outdoorevents/ Doncaster Racecourse]
| Facilities look strong, including [http://www.digitalregion.co.uk/ digital region] connection via a very friendly local ISP. Maybe too small, and races on all the time?
|-
| [http://www.pickeringshowground.co.uk/ Pickering Showground]
| Looks like a nice spot, hosts a music festival.
|-
| Overstone Scout Campsite, Northampton
| Got water, showers and toilets. Not the flattest.
|-
| [https://plus.google.com/109412933278853270069/about?hl=en Baldersby Park, Thirsk]
| Location for deershed festival. Finding out more details..
|}

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2013-04-09T14:57:08Z

Yaxu: merged another dupe

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2013-04-09T14:54:46Z

Yaxu: /* Candidate Sites */

The biggest issue for EMF is to find a good site. Here are our requirements, in order of priority:

* At least 3-8 hectares/8-15 acres/30,000-60,000 sq m (this should fit at least 1500 people but this isn't indicative of our planned capacity)
* Available for around 11 days (including a weekend) between mid-July and mid-September 2014.
* Good access for setup vehicles (no low bridges, for example)
* Ability to get a good internet connection (1 gigabit+) (but please let us know of any potential sites and we can work this out)
* Pleasant enough you actually want to spend time there
* Some kind of water supply/sewage connection
* Good transport links
* Located centrally to the UK
* Well drained
* Space for parking
* Near largish shops (e.g. large Tesco)

We don't care about:

* Most existing facilities (especially electricity). Providing them ourselves is frequently easier than trying to deal with existing services, so they're not a major consideration.

=Candidate Sites=

{|class="wikitable sortable"
! Site Name
! Details
|-
| Colerne Airfield, Wiltshire (nr Bath)
| Owned by a company of a friend of London Hackspace
|-
| [http://www.profounddecisions.co.uk/wicket/bookmarkable/uk.co.profounddecisions.website.pages.pdpages.event.tournamentstud.DirectionsTournamentStud?4 Profound Decisions location], Banbury
| Quite a lot of existing facilities here which we may be able to use. These guys provided our tents in 2012 and seem pretty keen.
|-
| [http://eventcentre.co.uk/organisers Yorkshire Event Centre, Harrogate]
| Site of the Great Yorkshire Show which has massive farm equipment so access is probably fine. Has event spaces, big outside areas, loads of parking. Sainsburys effectively on site. From memory, drainage is OK.
|-
| Turnpost Farm, Leicestershire
| Location of Glastonbudget. About 4 miles from Loughborough. Not sure of parking and amenities, but Glastonbudget has about 12,000 people so likely to be plenty of space if we can use some of that as car park
|-
| [http://www.peterborougharena.com/ Peterborough Arena and Showground]
| Seems very accessible by all sorts of vehicles and good public transport links. Arena has internet, so should be easy to roll out to the showgrounds. Close to Peterborough for shops and things.
|-
| [http://www.newarkshowground.com/ Newark Showground]
| Similar to Peterborough I guess. Perhaps a tad large.
|-
| [http://www.doncaster-racecourse.co.uk/events/outdoorevents/ Doncaster Racecourse]
| Facilities look strong, including [http://www.digitalregion.co.uk/ digital region] connection via a very friendly local ISP. Maybe too small, and races on all the time?
|-
| [http://www.pickeringshowground.co.uk/ Pickering Showground]
| Looks like a nice spot, hosts a music festival.
|-
| [http://www.newarkshowground.com/information/133/OUTDOOR_EVENTS_.htm Newark showground]
| 84 acres, fenced, good drainage, a range of indoor spaces (max 4000 capacity), 2 miles from train station (2h15 from kings x), lots of parking, in house catering available
|}

Site Search

2013-04-09T14:49:09Z

Yaxu: remove dupe

The biggest issue for EMF is to find a good site. Here are our requirements, in order of priority:

* At least 3-8 hectares/8-15 acres/30,000-60,000 sq m (this should fit at least 1500 people but this isn't indicative of our planned capacity)
* Available for around 11 days (including a weekend) between mid-July and mid-September 2014.
* Good access for setup vehicles (no low bridges, for example)
* Ability to get a good internet connection (1 gigabit+) (but please let us know of any potential sites and we can work this out)
* Pleasant enough you actually want to spend time there
* Some kind of water supply/sewage connection
* Good transport links
* Located centrally to the UK
* Well drained
* Space for parking
* Near largish shops (e.g. large Tesco)

We don't care about:

* Most existing facilities (especially electricity). Providing them ourselves is frequently easier than trying to deal with existing services, so they're not a major consideration.

=Candidate Sites=

{|class="wikitable sortable"
! Site Name
! Details
|-
| Colerne Airfield, Wiltshire (nr Bath)
| Owned by a company of a friend of London Hackspace
|-
| [http://www.profounddecisions.co.uk/wicket/bookmarkable/uk.co.profounddecisions.website.pages.pdpages.event.tournamentstud.DirectionsTournamentStud?4 Profound Decisions location], Banbury
| Quite a lot of existing facilities here which we may be able to use. These guys provided our tents in 2012 and seem pretty keen.
|-
| [http://eventcentre.co.uk/organisers Yorkshire Event Centre, Harrogate]
| Site of the Great Yorkshire Show which has massive farm equipment so access is probably fine. Has event spaces, big outside areas, loads of parking. Sainsburys effectively on site. From memory, drainage is OK.
|-
| Turnpost Farm, Leicestershire
| Location of Glastonbudget. About 4 miles from Loughborough. Not sure of parking and amenities, but Glastonbudget has about 12,000 people so likely to be plenty of space if we can use some of that as car park
|-
| [http://www.peterborougharena.com/ Peterborough Arena and Showground]
| Seems very accessible by all sorts of vehicles and good public transport links. Arena has internet, so should be easy to roll out to the showgrounds. Close to Peterborough for shops and things.
|-
| [http://www.newarkshowground.com/ Newark Showground]
| Similar to Peterborough I guess. Perhaps a tad large.
|-
| [http://www.doncaster-racecourse.co.uk/events/outdoorevents/ Doncaster Racecourse]
| Facilities look strong, including [http://www.digitalregion.co.uk/ digital region] connection via a very friendly local ISP. Maybe too small, and races on all the time?
|-
| [http://www.pickeringshowground.co.uk/ Pickering Showground]
| Looks like a nice spot, hosts a music festival.
|-
| [http://www.newarkshowground.com/information/133/OUTDOOR_EVENTS_.htm Newark showground]
|
|}

Site Search

2013-04-06T22:08:21Z

Yaxu: /* Candidate Sites */

The biggest issue for EMF is to find a good site. Here are our requirements, in order of priority:

* At least 3-8 hectares/8-15 acres/30,000-60,000 sq m (this should fit at least 1500 people but this isn't indicative of our planned capacity)
* Available for around 11 days (including a weekend) between mid-July and mid-September 2014.
* Good access for setup vehicles (no low bridges, for example)
* Ability to get a good internet connection (1 gigabit+) (but please let us know of any potential sites and we can work this out)
* Pleasant enough you actually want to spend time there
* Some kind of water supply/sewage connection
* Good transport links
* Located centrally to the UK
* Well drained
* Space for parking
* Near largish shops (e.g. large Tesco)

We don't care about:

* Most existing facilities (especially electricity). Providing them ourselves is frequently easier than trying to deal with existing services, so they're not a major consideration.

=Candidate Sites=

{|class="wikitable sortable"
! Site Name
! Details
|-
| Colerne Airfield, Wiltshire (nr Bath)
| Owned by a company of a friend of London Hackspace
|-
| [http://www.profounddecisions.co.uk/wicket/bookmarkable/uk.co.profounddecisions.website.pages.pdpages.event.tournamentstud.DirectionsTournamentStud?4 Profound Decisions location], Banbury
| Quite a lot of existing facilities here which we may be able to use. These guys provided our tents in 2012 and seem pretty keen.
|-
| [http://eventcentre.co.uk/organisers Yorkshire Event Centre, Harrogate]
| Site of the Great Yorkshire Show which has massive farm equipment so access is probably fine. Has event spaces, big outside areas, loads of parking. Sainsburys effectively on site. From memory, drainage is OK.
|-
| Turnpost Farm, Leicestershire
| Location of Glastonbudget. About 4 miles from Loughborough. Not sure of parking and amenities, but Glastonbudget has about 12,000 people so likely to be plenty of space if we can use some of that as car park
|-
| [http://www.peterborougharena.com/ Peterborough Arena and Showground]
| Seems very accessible by all sorts of vehicles and good public transport links. Arena has internet, so should be easy to roll out to the showgrounds. Close to Peterborough for shops and things.
|-
| [http://www.newarkshowground.com/ Newark Showground]
| Similar to Peterborough I guess. Perhaps a tad large.
|-
| [http://www.doncaster-racecourse.co.uk/events/outdoorevents/ Doncaster Racecourse]
| Facilities look strong, including [http://www.digitalregion.co.uk/ digital region] connection via a very friendly local ISP. Maybe too small, and races on all the time?
|-
| [http://www.pickeringshowground.co.uk/ Pickering Showground]
| Looks like a nice spot, hosts a music festival.
|-
| [http://eventcentre.co.uk/organisers/outdoor-spaces Yorkshire showground]
|
|-
| [http://www.newarkshowground.com/information/133/OUTDOOR_EVENTS_.htm Newark showground]
|
|}

Site Search

2013-04-06T22:01:43Z

Yaxu: /* Candidate Sites */

The biggest issue for EMF is to find a good site. Here are our requirements, in order of priority:

* At least 3-8 hectares/8-15 acres/30,000-60,000 sq m (this should fit at least 1500 people but this isn't indicative of our planned capacity)
* Available for around 11 days (including a weekend) between mid-July and mid-September 2014.
* Good access for setup vehicles (no low bridges, for example)
* Ability to get a good internet connection (1 gigabit+) (but please let us know of any potential sites and we can work this out)
* Pleasant enough you actually want to spend time there
* Some kind of water supply/sewage connection
* Good transport links
* Located centrally to the UK
* Well drained
* Space for parking
* Near largish shops (e.g. large Tesco)

We don't care about:

* Most existing facilities (especially electricity). Providing them ourselves is frequently easier than trying to deal with existing services, so they're not a major consideration.

=Candidate Sites=

{|class="wikitable sortable"
! Site Name
! Details
|-
| Colerne Airfield, Wiltshire (nr Bath)
| Owned by a company of a friend of London Hackspace
|-
| [http://www.profounddecisions.co.uk/wicket/bookmarkable/uk.co.profounddecisions.website.pages.pdpages.event.tournamentstud.DirectionsTournamentStud?4 Profound Decisions location], Banbury
| Quite a lot of existing facilities here which we may be able to use. These guys provided our tents in 2012 and seem pretty keen.
|-
| [http://eventcentre.co.uk/organisers Yorkshire Event Centre, Harrogate]
| Site of the Great Yorkshire Show which has massive farm equipment so access is probably fine. Has event spaces, big outside areas, loads of parking. Sainsburys effectively on site. From memory, drainage is OK.
|-
| Turnpost Farm, Leicestershire
| Location of Glastonbudget. About 4 miles from Loughborough. Not sure of parking and amenities, but Glastonbudget has about 12,000 people so likely to be plenty of space if we can use some of that as car park
|-
| [http://www.peterborougharena.com/ Peterborough Arena and Showground]
| Seems very accessible by all sorts of vehicles and good public transport links. Arena has internet, so should be easy to roll out to the showgrounds. Close to Peterborough for shops and things.
|-
| [http://www.newarkshowground.com/ Newark Showground]
| Similar to Peterborough I guess. Perhaps a tad large.
|-
| [http://www.doncaster-racecourse.co.uk/events/outdoorevents/ Doncaster Racecourse]
| Facilities look strong, including [http://www.digitalregion.co.uk/ digital region] connection via a very friendly local ISP. Maybe too small, and races on all the time?
|-
| [http://www.pickeringshowground.co.uk/ Pickering Showground]
| Looks like a nice spot, hosts a music festival.
|-
| [http://eventcentre.co.uk/organisers/outdoor-spaces Yorkshire showground]
|
|}

Site Search

2013-04-06T18:18:53Z

Yaxu: /* Candidate Sites */

The biggest issue for EMF is to find a good site. Here are our requirements, in order of priority:

* At least 3-8 hectares/8-15 acres/30,000-60,000 sq m (this should fit at least 1500 people but this isn't indicative of our planned capacity)
* Available for around 11 days (including a weekend) between mid-July and mid-September 2014.
* Good access for setup vehicles (no low bridges, for example)
* Ability to get a good internet connection (1 gigabit+) (but please let us know of any potential sites and we can work this out)
* Pleasant enough you actually want to spend time there
* Some kind of water supply/sewage connection
* Good transport links
* Located centrally to the UK
* Well drained
* Space for parking
* Near largish shops (e.g. large Tesco)

We don't care about:

* Most existing facilities (especially electricity). Providing them ourselves is frequently easier than trying to deal with existing services, so they're not a major consideration.

=Candidate Sites=

{|class="wikitable sortable"
! Site Name
! Details
|-
| Colerne Airfield, Wiltshire (nr Bath)
| Owned by a company of a friend of London Hackspace
|-
| [http://www.profounddecisions.co.uk/wicket/bookmarkable/uk.co.profounddecisions.website.pages.pdpages.event.tournamentstud.DirectionsTournamentStud?4 Profound Decisions location], Banbury
| Quite a lot of existing facilities here which we may be able to use. These guys provided our tents in 2012 and seem pretty keen.
|-
| [http://eventcentre.co.uk/organisers Yorkshire Event Centre, Harrogate]
| Site of the Great Yorkshire Show which has massive farm equipment so access is probably fine. Has event spaces, big outside areas, loads of parking. Sainsburys effectively on site. From memory, drainage is OK.
|-
| Turnpost Farm, Leicestershire
| Location of Glastonbudget. About 4 miles from Loughborough. Not sure of parking and amenities, but Glastonbudget has about 12,000 people so likely to be plenty of space if we can use some of that as car park
|-
| [http://www.peterborougharena.com/ Peterborough Arena and Showground]
| Seems very accessible by all sorts of vehicles and good public transport links. Arena has internet, so should be easy to roll out to the showgrounds. Close to Peterborough for shops and things.
|-
| [http://www.newarkshowground.com/ Newark Showground]
| Similar to Peterborough I guess. Perhaps a tad large.
|-
| [http://www.doncaster-racecourse.co.uk/events/outdoorevents/ Doncaster Racecourse]
| Facilities look strong, including [http://www.digitalregion.co.uk/ digital region] connection via a very friendly local ISP. Maybe too small, and races on all the time?
|-
| [http://www.pickeringshowground.co.uk/ Pickering Showground]
| Looks like a nice spot, hosts a music festival.
|}

Site Search

2013-04-06T18:14:17Z

Yaxu: /* Candidate Sites */

The biggest issue for EMF is to find a good site. Here are our requirements, in order of priority:

* At least 3-8 hectares/8-15 acres/30,000-60,000 sq m (this should fit at least 1500 people but this isn't indicative of our planned capacity)
* Available for around 11 days (including a weekend) between mid-July and mid-September 2014.
* Good access for setup vehicles (no low bridges, for example)
* Ability to get a good internet connection (1 gigabit+) (but please let us know of any potential sites and we can work this out)
* Pleasant enough you actually want to spend time there
* Some kind of water supply/sewage connection
* Good transport links
* Located centrally to the UK
* Well drained
* Space for parking
* Near largish shops (e.g. large Tesco)

We don't care about:

* Most existing facilities (especially electricity). Providing them ourselves is frequently easier than trying to deal with existing services, so they're not a major consideration.

=Candidate Sites=

{|class="wikitable sortable"
! Site Name
! Details
|-
| Colerne Airfield, Wiltshire (nr Bath)
| Owned by a company of a friend of London Hackspace
|-
| [http://www.profounddecisions.co.uk/wicket/bookmarkable/uk.co.profounddecisions.website.pages.pdpages.event.tournamentstud.DirectionsTournamentStud?4 Profound Decisions location], Banbury
| Quite a lot of existing facilities here which we may be able to use. These guys provided our tents in 2012 and seem pretty keen.
|-
| [http://eventcentre.co.uk/organisers Yorkshire Event Centre, Harrogate]
| Site of the Great Yorkshire Show which has massive farm equipment so access is probably fine. Has event spaces, big outside areas, loads of parking. Sainsburys effectively on site. From memory, drainage is OK.
|-
| Turnpost Farm, Leicestershire
| Location of Glastonbudget. About 4 miles from Loughborough. Not sure of parking and amenities, but Glastonbudget has about 12,000 people so likely to be plenty of space if we can use some of that as car park
|-
| [http://www.peterborougharena.com/ Peterborough Arena and Showground]
| Seems very accessible by all sorts of vehicles and good public transport links. Arena has internet, so should be easy to roll out to the showgrounds. Close to Peterborough for shops and things.
|-
| [http://www.newarkshowground.com/ Newark Showground]
| Similar to Peterborough I guess. Perhaps a tad large.
|-
| [http://www.doncaster-racecourse.co.uk/events/outdoorevents/ Doncaster Racecourse]
| Facilities look strong, including [http://www.digitalregion.co.uk/ digital region] connection via a very friendly local ISP. Maybe too small, and races on all the time?
|}

Site Search

2013-04-06T18:13:42Z

Yaxu: /* Candidate Sites */

The biggest issue for EMF is to find a good site. Here are our requirements, in order of priority:

* At least 3-8 hectares/8-15 acres/30,000-60,000 sq m (this should fit at least 1500 people but this isn't indicative of our planned capacity)
* Available for around 11 days (including a weekend) between mid-July and mid-September 2014.
* Good access for setup vehicles (no low bridges, for example)
* Ability to get a good internet connection (1 gigabit+) (but please let us know of any potential sites and we can work this out)
* Pleasant enough you actually want to spend time there
* Some kind of water supply/sewage connection
* Good transport links
* Located centrally to the UK
* Well drained
* Space for parking
* Near largish shops (e.g. large Tesco)

We don't care about:

* Most existing facilities (especially electricity). Providing them ourselves is frequently easier than trying to deal with existing services, so they're not a major consideration.

=Candidate Sites=

{|class="wikitable sortable"
! Site Name
! Details
|-
| Colerne Airfield, Wiltshire (nr Bath)
| Owned by a company of a friend of London Hackspace
|-
| [http://www.profounddecisions.co.uk/wicket/bookmarkable/uk.co.profounddecisions.website.pages.pdpages.event.tournamentstud.DirectionsTournamentStud?4 Profound Decisions location], Banbury
| Quite a lot of existing facilities here which we may be able to use. These guys provided our tents in 2012 and seem pretty keen.
|-
| [http://eventcentre.co.uk/organisers Yorkshire Event Centre, Harrogate]
| Site of the Great Yorkshire Show which has massive farm equipment so access is probably fine. Has event spaces, big outside areas, loads of parking. Sainsburys effectively on site. From memory, drainage is OK.
|-
| Turnpost Farm, Leicestershire
| Location of Glastonbudget. About 4 miles from Loughborough. Not sure of parking and amenities, but Glastonbudget has about 12,000 people so likely to be plenty of space if we can use some of that as car park
|-
| [http://www.peterborougharena.com/ Peterborough Arena and Showground]
| Seems very accessible by all sorts of vehicles and good public transport links. Arena has internet, so should be easy to roll out to the showgrounds. Close to Peterborough for shops and things.
|-
| [http://www.newarkshowground.com/ Newark Showground]
| Similar to Peterborough I guess. Perhaps a tad large.
|-
| [http://www.doncaster-racecourse.co.uk/events/outdoorevents/ Doncaster Racecourse]
| Facilities look strong, including [http://www.digitalregion.co.uk/ digital region] connection via a very friendly local ISP. Maybe too small?
|}

Site Search

2013-04-06T17:52:30Z

Yaxu:

The biggest issue for EMF is to find a good site. Here are our requirements, in order of priority:

* At least 3-8 hectares/8-15 acres/30,000-60,000 sq m (this should fit at least 1500 people but this isn't indicative of our planned capacity)
* Available for around 11 days (including a weekend) between mid-July and mid-September 2014.
* Good access for setup vehicles (no low bridges, for example)
* Ability to get a good internet connection (1 gigabit+) (but please let us know of any potential sites and we can work this out)
* Pleasant enough you actually want to spend time there
* Some kind of water supply/sewage connection
* Good transport links
* Located centrally to the UK
* Well drained
* Space for parking
* Near largish shops (e.g. large Tesco)

We don't care about:

* Most existing facilities (especially electricity). Providing them ourselves is frequently easier than trying to deal with existing services, so they're not a major consideration.

=Candidate Sites=

{|class="wikitable sortable"
! Site Name
! Details
|-
| Colerne Airfield, Wiltshire (nr Bath)
| Owned by a company of a friend of London Hackspace
|-
| [http://www.profounddecisions.co.uk/wicket/bookmarkable/uk.co.profounddecisions.website.pages.pdpages.event.tournamentstud.DirectionsTournamentStud?4 Profound Decisions location], Banbury
| Quite a lot of existing facilities here which we may be able to use. These guys provided our tents in 2012 and seem pretty keen.
|-
| [http://eventcentre.co.uk/organisers Yorkshire Event Centre, Harrogate]
| Site of the Great Yorkshire Show which has massive farm equipment so access is probably fine. Has event spaces, big outside areas, loads of parking. Sainsburys effectively on site. From memory, drainage is OK.
|-
| Turnpost Farm, Leicestershire
| Location of Glastonbudget. About 4 miles from Loughborough. Not sure of parking and amenities, but Glastonbudget has about 12,000 people so likely to be plenty of space if we can use some of that as car park
|-
| [http://www.peterborougharena.com/ Peterborough Arena and Showground]
| Seems very accessible by all sorts of vehicles and good public transport links. Arena has internet, so should be easy to roll out to the showgrounds. Close to Peterborough for shops and things.
|-
| [http://www.newarkshowground.com/ Newark Showground]
| Similar to Peterborough I guess. Perhaps a tad large.
|-
| [http://www.doncaster-racecourse.co.uk/events/outdoorevents/ Doncaster Racecourse]
| Facilities look strong, including [http://www.digitalregion.co.uk/ digital region] connection via a very friendly local ISP]
|}

Site Search

2013-04-06T17:52:16Z

Yaxu:

The biggest issue for EMF is to find a good site. Here are our requirements, in order of priority:

* At least 3-8 hectares/8-15 acres/30,000-60,000 sq m (this should fit at least 1500 people but this isn't indicative of our planned capacity)
* Available for around 11 days (including a weekend) between mid-July and mid-September 2014.
* Good access for setup vehicles (no low bridges, for example)
* Ability to get a good internet connection (1 gigabit+) (but please let us know of any potential sites and we can work this out)
* Pleasant enough you actually want to spend time there
* Some kind of water supply/sewage connection
* Good transport links
* Located centrally to the UK
* Well drained
* Space for parking
* Near largish shops (e.g. large Tesco)

We don't care about:

* Most existing facilities (especially electricity). Providing them ourselves is frequently easier than trying to deal with existing services, so they're not a major consideration.

=Candidate Sites=

{|class="wikitable sortable"
! Site Name
! Details
|-
| Colerne Airfield, Wiltshire (nr Bath)
| Owned by a company of a friend of London Hackspace
|-
| [http://www.profounddecisions.co.uk/wicket/bookmarkable/uk.co.profounddecisions.website.pages.pdpages.event.tournamentstud.DirectionsTournamentStud?4 Profound Decisions location], Banbury
| Quite a lot of existing facilities here which we may be able to use. These guys provided our tents in 2012 and seem pretty keen.
|-
| [http://eventcentre.co.uk/organisers Yorkshire Event Centre, Harrogate]
| Site of the Great Yorkshire Show which has massive farm equipment so access is probably fine. Has event spaces, big outside areas, loads of parking. Sainsburys effectively on site. From memory, drainage is OK.
|-
| Turnpost Farm, Leicestershire
| Location of Glastonbudget. About 4 miles from Loughborough. Not sure of parking and amenities, but Glastonbudget has about 12,000 people so likely to be plenty of space if we can use some of that as car park
|-
| [http://www.peterborougharena.com/ Peterborough Arena and Showground]
| Seems very accessible by all sorts of vehicles and good public transport links. Arena has internet, so should be easy to roll out to the showgrounds. Close to Peterborough for shops and things.
|-
| [http://www.newarkshowground.com/ Newark Showground]
| Similar to Peterborough I guess. Perhaps a tad large.
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| [http://www.doncaster-racecourse.co.uk/events/outdoorevents/ Doncaster Racecourse]
| Facilities look strong, including [http://www.digitalregion.co.uk/ digital region] connection via a very friendly local ISP]
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