Electromagnetic Field 2022 - User contributions [en-gb]

Memories

2022-06-07T17:54:14Z

Saizai: /* Videos */ James Bruton's Ball Wheels OFF-ROAD Testing video

= Policy and reshare permissions =

We love to see how you experience EMF through photos, videos and other records.

Please check the [[photography]] page for photography rules/guidance, and a list of things we'd like to see. (Do take cool photos; don't have anyone identifiable in frame without their prior consent).

Please [https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1Mrv2ULYd71BkqFkpz3qjJMrlyBJRmSs1ypb4LwL0eKM/viewform?edit_requested=true use this form] to tell EMF about your photos/videos so the team can archive it and (if you approve) re-use in promotion (like on the [https://emfcamp.org emfcamp.org main page] and [https://www.emfcamp.org/about about page].

= Content =

=== Groups, tags and searches ===

* #emfcamp on Twitter (no link, due to spam filter)
** a good advanced search query to capture related conversation is <code>url:emfcamp.org OR #emfcamp OR "emfcamp" OR "emf camp" OR #emf2022 -edinburgh -marathon</code>
* [https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/emfcamp EMFCamp Facebook]
* [https://medium.com/tag/emfcamp EMFCamp Medium]
* [https://www.flickr.com/groups/emfcamp/ EMFCamp Flickr]
* [https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/emfcamp/ Instagram #emfcamp tag]
* [https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=emfcamp Youtube emfcamp search]

=== Picture albums ===

* [https://chaos.social/@ripper/108425586558890206 Lost Robot Picture]
* Vic Harkness' [https://www.flickr.com/photos/vicharkness/albums/72177720299576154 Flickr album] & [https://twitter.com/VicHarkness/status/1533784641013940227 Twitter thread]
* [https://www.flickr.com/photos/16971843@N03/sets/72177720299562194/ GamePopper's Flickr album]

=== Videos ===

* [https://www.youtube.com/c/ElectromagneticField Electromagnetic Field YouTube channel]
* [https://twitter.com/emfcamp/status/1531337540577501185 Drone flyover] "BUILD STATUS: 60%"
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKlhbGXkUPk James Bruton: Ball Wheels OFF-ROAD Testing (at #EMF2022)]

=== 3D models ===

=== Blog posts ===

=== Press coverage ===

* [https://hackaday.com/2022/05/09/looking-forward-to-emf-camp-teasing-us-with-a-schedule/ Jenny List (Hackaday) - Looking forward to EMF Camp: teasing us with a schedule] - May 9th 2022

Memories

2022-06-07T17:36:44Z

Saizai: /* Picture albums */ gamepopper & Vic Harkness albums

= Policy and reshare permissions =

We love to see how you experience EMF through photos, videos and other records.

Please check the [[photography]] page for photography rules/guidance, and a list of things we'd like to see. (Do take cool photos; don't have anyone identifiable in frame without their prior consent).

Please [https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1Mrv2ULYd71BkqFkpz3qjJMrlyBJRmSs1ypb4LwL0eKM/viewform?edit_requested=true use this form] to tell EMF about your photos/videos so the team can archive it and (if you approve) re-use in promotion (like on the [https://emfcamp.org emfcamp.org main page] and [https://www.emfcamp.org/about about page].

= Content =

=== Groups, tags and searches ===

* #emfcamp on Twitter (no link, due to spam filter)
** a good advanced search query to capture related conversation is <code>url:emfcamp.org OR #emfcamp OR "emfcamp" OR "emf camp" OR #emf2022 -edinburgh -marathon</code>
* [https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/emfcamp EMFCamp Facebook]
* [https://medium.com/tag/emfcamp EMFCamp Medium]
* [https://www.flickr.com/groups/emfcamp/ EMFCamp Flickr]
* [https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/emfcamp/ Instagram #emfcamp tag]
* [https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=emfcamp Youtube emfcamp search]

=== Picture albums ===

* [https://chaos.social/@ripper/108425586558890206 Lost Robot Picture]
* Vic Harkness' [https://www.flickr.com/photos/vicharkness/albums/72177720299576154 Flickr album] & [https://twitter.com/VicHarkness/status/1533784641013940227 Twitter thread]
* [https://www.flickr.com/photos/16971843@N03/sets/72177720299562194/ GamePopper's Flickr album]

=== Videos ===

* [https://www.youtube.com/c/ElectromagneticField Electromagnetic Field YouTube channel]
* [https://twitter.com/emfcamp/status/1531337540577501185 Drone flyover] "BUILD STATUS: 60%"

=== 3D models ===

=== Blog posts ===

=== Press coverage ===

* [https://hackaday.com/2022/05/09/looking-forward-to-emf-camp-teasing-us-with-a-schedule/ Jenny List (Hackaday) - Looking forward to EMF Camp: teasing us with a schedule] - May 9th 2022

Electromagnetic Field 2022

2022-06-07T14:32:40Z

Saizai: link to relive

[[File:Emf1.jpg|thumb|right|The EMF sign in 2014]]

Electromagnetic Field (EMF) is a non-profit UK camping festival for those with an inquisitive mind or an interest in making things: hackers, geeks, scientists, engineers, artists, and crafters. This wiki is intended to allow attendees of EMF to coordinate information sharing, for more general information about EMF see https://emfcamp.org/.

Recordings of the live stream are ''temporarily'' available at [https://streaming.media.ccc.de/emf2022/relive CCC Relive!]. Please don't link to those videos directly, because they will be removed once the final edits are [https://www.youtube.com/c/ElectromagneticField/playlists published].

== Share your [[memories]] ==

If you wrote or saw a post, photo, video, etc. about EMF 2022, please add it to the list at [[Memories]].

If you made it, and you're willing for EMF to reuse it in publicity, please also submit it to the organisers' [https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1Mrv2ULYd71BkqFkpz3qjJMrlyBJRmSs1ypb4LwL0eKM/viewform?edit_requested=true media submission form].

== Interesting Pages ==

* '''[[Memories]] ''' - Posts, photos, video, etc. about EMF 2022
* '''[[FAQ]]''' - Frequently asked questions
* '''[[:Category:Villages|Villages]]''' - A list of all the villages with wiki pages.

* '''[[Network]]''' - More information than you could ever want about the network and wifi
* '''[[Phones]]''' - Information about DECT, SIP, GSM and POTS network
* '''[[Sneakernet]]''' - Send a postcard through the on-site postal system
* '''[[IRC]]''' - We use IRC as a location to meet, discuss and organise the event
* '''[[Interesting links]]''' - resources that aren't on the Wiki

If you've got other things you want to share with people, add a page for them.

Electromagnetic Field 2022

2022-06-07T14:22:40Z

Saizai: right-align photo so it doesn't break up text

[[File:Emf1.jpg|thumb|right|The EMF sign in 2014]]

Electromagnetic Field (EMF) is a non-profit UK camping festival for those with an inquisitive mind or an interest in making things: hackers, geeks, scientists, engineers, artists, and crafters. This wiki is intended to allow attendees of EMF to coordinate information sharing, for more general information about EMF see https://emfcamp.org/.

== Share your [[memories]] ==

If you wrote or saw a post, photo, video, etc. about EMF 2022, please add it to the list at [[Memories]].

If you made it, and you're willing for EMF to reuse it in publicity, please also submit it to the organisers' [https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1Mrv2ULYd71BkqFkpz3qjJMrlyBJRmSs1ypb4LwL0eKM/viewform?edit_requested=true media submission form].

== Interesting Pages ==

* '''[[Memories]] ''' - Posts, photos, video, etc. about EMF 2022
* '''[[FAQ]]''' - Frequently asked questions
* '''[[:Category:Villages|Villages]]''' - A list of all the villages with wiki pages.

* '''[[Network]]''' - More information than you could ever want about the network and wifi
* '''[[Phones]]''' - Information about DECT, SIP, GSM and POTS network
* '''[[Sneakernet]]''' - Send a postcard through the on-site postal system
* '''[[IRC]]''' - We use IRC as a location to meet, discuss and organise the event
* '''[[Interesting links]]''' - resources that aren't on the Wiki

If you've got other things you want to share with people, add a page for them.

Electromagnetic Field 2022

2022-06-07T14:21:54Z

Saizai: /* Interesting Pages */ comment out pages with post-event-relevant info (leaving in ones with stats, tech details, etc); add memories link

[[File:Emf1.jpg|thumb|left|The EMF sign in 2014]]

Electromagnetic Field (EMF) is a non-profit UK camping festival for those with an inquisitive mind or an interest in making things: hackers, geeks, scientists, engineers, artists, and crafters. This wiki is intended to allow attendees of EMF to coordinate information sharing, for more general information about EMF see https://emfcamp.org/.

== Share your [[memories]] ==

If you wrote or saw a post, photo, video, etc. about EMF 2022, please add it to the list at [[Memories]].

If you made it, and you're willing for EMF to reuse it in publicity, please also submit it to the organisers' [https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1Mrv2ULYd71BkqFkpz3qjJMrlyBJRmSs1ypb4LwL0eKM/viewform?edit_requested=true media submission form].

== Interesting Pages ==

* '''[[Memories]] ''' - Posts, photos, video, etc. about EMF 2022
* '''[[FAQ]]''' - Frequently asked questions
* '''[[:Category:Villages|Villages]]''' - A list of all the villages with wiki pages.

* '''[[Network]]''' - More information than you could ever want about the network and wifi
* '''[[Phones]]''' - Information about DECT, SIP, GSM and POTS network
* '''[[Sneakernet]]''' - Send a postcard through the on-site postal system
* '''[[IRC]]''' - We use IRC as a location to meet, discuss and organise the event
* '''[[Interesting links]]''' - resources that aren't on the Wiki

If you've got other things you want to share with people, add a page for them.

Electromagnetic Field 2022

2022-06-07T14:18:36Z

Saizai: add memories section at top

[[File:Emf1.jpg|thumb|left|The EMF sign in 2014]]

Electromagnetic Field (EMF) is a non-profit UK camping festival for those with an inquisitive mind or an interest in making things: hackers, geeks, scientists, engineers, artists, and crafters. This wiki is intended to allow attendees of EMF to coordinate information sharing, for more general information about EMF see https://emfcamp.org/.

== Share your [[memories]] ==

If you wrote or saw a post, photo, video, etc. about EMF 2022, please add it to the list at [[Memories]].

If you made it, and you're willing for EMF to reuse it in publicity, please also submit it to the organisers' [https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1Mrv2ULYd71BkqFkpz3qjJMrlyBJRmSs1ypb4LwL0eKM/viewform?edit_requested=true media submission form].

== Interesting Pages ==

* '''[[FAQ]]''' - Frequently asked questions
* '''[[:Category:Villages|Villages]]''' - A list of all the villages with wiki pages.
* '''[[Location/Lift sharing]]''' - Lift sharing, find people to get a lift with, or who need a lift
* '''[[Camping Gear Lending and Borrowing]]''' - Lend or borrow camping gear
* '''[[Network]]''' - More information than you could ever want about the network and wifi
* '''[[Phones]]''' - Information about DECT, SIP, GSM and POTS network
* '''[[Sneakernet]]''' - Send a postcard through the on-site postal system
* '''[[IRC]]''' - We use IRC as a location to meet, discuss and organise the event
* '''[[Interesting links]]''' - resources that aren't on the Wiki

If you've got other things you want to share with people, add a page for them.

User:Saizai

2022-06-01T19:21:50Z

Saizai: Replaced content with "{{Attendee |Name=Sai |Village=Village:Hardware Hacking Area |Bringing=blind stuff (canes, braille labeller, frame & stylus, etc) |Arrival=2022-06-02T14:00:00.000Z |Departu..."

Memories

2022-06-01T13:17:14Z

Saizai: add section

= Policy and reshare permissions =

We love to see how you experience EMF through photos, videos and other records.

Please check the [[photography]] page for photography rules/guidance, and a list of things we'd like to see. (Do take cool photos; don't have anyone identifiable in frame without their prior consent).

Please [https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1Mrv2ULYd71BkqFkpz3qjJMrlyBJRmSs1ypb4LwL0eKM/viewform?edit_requested=true use this form] to tell EMF about your photos/videos so the team can archive it and (if you approve) re-use in promotion (like on the [https://emfcamp.org emfcamp.org main page] and [https://www.emfcamp.org/about about page].

= Content =

=== Groups, tags and searches ===

* #emfcamp on Twitter (no link, due to spam filter)
* [https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/emfcamp EMFCamp Facebook]
* [https://medium.com/tag/emfcamp EMFCamp Medium]
* [https://www.flickr.com/groups/emfcamp/ EMFCamp Flickr]
* [https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/emfcamp/ Instagram #emfcamp tag]
* [https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=emfcamp Youtube emfcamp search]

=== Picture albums ===

=== Videos ===

* [https://www.youtube.com/c/ElectromagneticField Electromagnetic Field YouTube channel]
* [https://twitter.com/emfcamp/status/1531337540577501185 Drone flyover] "BUILD STATUS: 60%"

=== 3D models ===

=== Blog posts ===

=== Press coverage ===

* [https://hackaday.com/2022/05/09/looking-forward-to-emf-camp-teasing-us-with-a-schedule/ Jenny List (Hackaday) - Looking forward to EMF Camp: teasing us with a schedule] - May 9th 2022

Memories

2022-06-01T13:16:50Z

Saizai: improved link to phogoraphy page & submission form

= Policy and reshare permissions =

We love to see how you experience EMF through photos, videos and other records.

Please check the [[photography]] page for photography rules/guidance, and a list of things we'd like to see. (Do take cool photos; don't have anyone identifiable in frame without their prior consent).

Please [https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1Mrv2ULYd71BkqFkpz3qjJMrlyBJRmSs1ypb4LwL0eKM/viewform?edit_requested=true use this form] to tell EMF about your photos/videos so the team can archive it and (if you approve) re-use in promotion (like on the [https://emfcamp.org emfcamp.org main page] and [https://www.emfcamp.org/about about page].

=== Groups, tags and searches ===

* #emfcamp on Twitter (no link, due to spam filter)
* [https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/emfcamp EMFCamp Facebook]
* [https://medium.com/tag/emfcamp EMFCamp Medium]
* [https://www.flickr.com/groups/emfcamp/ EMFCamp Flickr]
* [https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/emfcamp/ Instagram #emfcamp tag]
* [https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=emfcamp Youtube emfcamp search]

=== Picture albums ===

=== Videos ===

* [https://www.youtube.com/c/ElectromagneticField Electromagnetic Field YouTube channel]
* [https://twitter.com/emfcamp/status/1531337540577501185 Drone flyover] "BUILD STATUS: 60%"

=== 3D models ===

=== Blog posts ===

=== Press coverage ===

* [https://hackaday.com/2022/05/09/looking-forward-to-emf-camp-teasing-us-with-a-schedule/ Jenny List (Hackaday) - Looking forward to EMF Camp: teasing us with a schedule] - May 9th 2022

Village:Hardware Hacking Area

2022-05-25T16:26:17Z

Saizai:

{{Village
|Description=The '''Hardware Hacking Area''' is a huge area at Workshop 3 (by Camping F) for people of all ages and skill levels to come together and play, teach, learn, and share in many and diverse realms of making all sorts of physical things.
|Contact=Maltman23
|Activities=hardware, hardware hacking, solder, soldering, electronics, Neurohacking, mind, sleep, bci, eeg, music synthesizers, music, art, craft
|Interests=
}}



==Hardware Hacking Area==

We're the hardware hacking area. We'll bring a bus that unfolds into a large tent, and hack on hardware under that. We'll have workshops and tools and a bunch of people ready to help and teach. You can learn to solder, learn to build things that blink and/or make noise, and generally have hardware fun.

* Location: Workshop 3 [https://map.emfcamp.org/#17.78/52.041189/-2.37646 (map)], by Camping: F, at the end of the main road into camp. 
* Time: All day & all night throughout EMF.
* People: All ages, all skill levels, all welcome!

== Events ==

Want to teach a workshop, give a demo, or talk about your project? Please do! We have an area for giving talks about all sorts of cool physical projects of all sorts, with plenty of table and ground space. ''Please contact Kliment'' if you want to contribute.

'''Draft schedule'''

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! style="text-align: center; background-color:#5E93CE; color: white;" | Day
! style="text-align: center; background-color:#5E93CE; color: white;" | Time
! style="text-align: center; background-color:#5E93CE; color: white;" | Event
! style="text-align: center; background-color:#5E93CE; color: white;" | Presenter
! style="text-align: center; background-color:#5E93CE; color: white;" | Space
! style="text-align: center; background-color:#5E93CE; color: white;" | Max # people
|-
| rowspan="1" | Wed 1 June
| all day ish || Setup HHA || || || ||
|-
| colspan="6" style="background-color: grey;" |
|-
| rowspan="1" | Thurs 2 June 
| 18:00-20:00 || SMD workshop for Orga & friends of the HHA || Kliment || Small space (3 tables), SMD setup || 12
|-
| colspan="6" style="background-color: grey;" |
|-
| rowspan="5" | Fri 3 June 
| 13:00-15:30 || Digital Music Synthesis || Mitch || Large space (6 tables), screen, irons || 30
|-
| 16:00-18:00 || SMD for terrified beginners || Kliment || Small space (3 tables), SMD setup || 12
|-
| 18:00-20:00 || Build/Solder your own Metal Percussion Synthesizer || Darren || Small space (3 tables), irons || 15
|-
| 20:00-22:00 || Build your own Geiger counter || Yannick || Large space (all irons), screen, irons || 35-50
|-
| 22:00-23:30 || LED Strips Everywhere for Everyone! || Mitch || Large space (5+ tables), screen || 25
|-
| colspan="6" style="background-color: grey;" |
|-
| rowspan="6" | Sat 4 June 
| 12:00-15:00 || Layout the EMF badge || Kliment || Large space (as much as possible), screen, laptops || 50
|-
| 13:00-14:30 || Blinkenrocket/Learn to solder || overflo || (overlaps with previous workshop) || TBD
|-
| 15:00-18:30 || Arduino for Total Newbies || Mitch || Large space (5-6 tables), screen, irons || 25
|-
| 19:00-21:00 || SMD for terrified beginners || Kliment || Small space (3 tables), SMD setup || 12
|-
| 19:00-20:00 || Build Your Own Z80 Retro Computer Kit || Spencer || (overlaps with previous workshop) Small space (3 tables), irons || 12
|-
| 21:00-22:00 || Hebocon robot building workshop || Tamar || Large space (as much as possible), needs helpers || 50
|-
| colspan="6" style="background-color: grey;" |
|-
| rowspan="5" | Sun 5 June 
| 10:30-11:30 || Solder some solar || Matthew || Large space (6 tables), soldering irons || 30
|-
| 12:00-15:30 || Arduino for Total Newbies || Mitch || Large space (5-6 tables), screen, irons || 25
|-
| 16:00-18:00 || SMD for terrified beginners || Kliment || Small space (3 tables), SMD setup || 12
|-
| 16:00-18:00 || Rakit Drum Synth - Build/Solder your own Drum Synthesizer || Darren || (overlaps with previous workshop) Small space (3 tables), irons || 15
|-
| 19:00-finished || Teardown || || ||
|}

Village:Hardware Hacking Area

2022-05-25T16:25:51Z

Saizai:

{{Village
|Description=The '''Hardware Hacking Area''' is a huge area at [https://map.emfcamp.org/#17.78/52.041189/-2.37646 Workshop 3] (by Camping F) for people of all ages and skill levels to come together and play, teach, learn, and share in many and diverse realms of making all sorts of physical things.
|Contact=Maltman23
|Activities=hardware, hardware hacking, solder, soldering, electronics, Neurohacking, mind, sleep, bci, eeg, music synthesizers, music, art, craft
|Interests=
}}



==Hardware Hacking Area==

We're the hardware hacking area. We'll bring a bus that unfolds into a large tent, and hack on hardware under that. We'll have workshops and tools and a bunch of people ready to help and teach. You can learn to solder, learn to build things that blink and/or make noise, and generally have hardware fun.

* Location: Workshop 3 [https://map.emfcamp.org/#17.78/52.041189/-2.37646 (map)], by Camping: F, at the end of the main road into camp. 
* Time: All day & all night throughout EMF.
* People: All ages, all skill levels, all welcome!

== Events ==

Want to teach a workshop, give a demo, or talk about your project? Please do! We have an area for giving talks about all sorts of cool physical projects of all sorts, with plenty of table and ground space. ''Please contact Kliment'' if you want to contribute.

'''Draft schedule'''

{| style="background-color: #F9F9F9;border: 1px solid #AAAAAA;font-size: 95%;padding: 5px;"
! style="text-align: center; background-color:#5E93CE; color: white;" | Day
! style="text-align: center; background-color:#5E93CE; color: white;" | Time
! style="text-align: center; background-color:#5E93CE; color: white;" | Event
! style="text-align: center; background-color:#5E93CE; color: white;" | Presenter
! style="text-align: center; background-color:#5E93CE; color: white;" | Space
! style="text-align: center; background-color:#5E93CE; color: white;" | Max # people
|-
| rowspan="1" | Wed 1 June
| all day ish || Setup HHA || || || ||
|-
| colspan="6" style="background-color: grey;" |
|-
| rowspan="1" | Thurs 2 June 
| 18:00-20:00 || SMD workshop for Orga & friends of the HHA || Kliment || Small space (3 tables), SMD setup || 12
|-
| colspan="6" style="background-color: grey;" |
|-
| rowspan="5" | Fri 3 June 
| 13:00-15:30 || Digital Music Synthesis || Mitch || Large space (6 tables), screen, irons || 30
|-
| 16:00-18:00 || SMD for terrified beginners || Kliment || Small space (3 tables), SMD setup || 12
|-
| 18:00-20:00 || Build/Solder your own Metal Percussion Synthesizer || Darren || Small space (3 tables), irons || 15
|-
| 20:00-22:00 || Build your own Geiger counter || Yannick || Large space (all irons), screen, irons || 35-50
|-
| 22:00-23:30 || LED Strips Everywhere for Everyone! || Mitch || Large space (5+ tables), screen || 25
|-
| colspan="6" style="background-color: grey;" |
|-
| rowspan="6" | Sat 4 June 
| 12:00-15:00 || Layout the EMF badge || Kliment || Large space (as much as possible), screen, laptops || 50
|-
| 13:00-14:30 || Blinkenrocket/Learn to solder || overflo || (overlaps with previous workshop) || TBD
|-
| 15:00-18:30 || Arduino for Total Newbies || Mitch || Large space (5-6 tables), screen, irons || 25
|-
| 19:00-21:00 || SMD for terrified beginners || Kliment || Small space (3 tables), SMD setup || 12
|-
| 19:00-20:00 || Build Your Own Z80 Retro Computer Kit || Spencer || (overlaps with previous workshop) Small space (3 tables), irons || 12
|-
| 21:00-22:00 || Hebocon robot building workshop || Tamar || Large space (as much as possible), needs helpers || 50
|-
| colspan="6" style="background-color: grey;" |
|-
| rowspan="5" | Sun 5 June 
| 10:30-11:30 || Solder some solar || Matthew || Large space (6 tables), soldering irons || 30
|-
| 12:00-15:30 || Arduino for Total Newbies || Mitch || Large space (5-6 tables), screen, irons || 25
|-
| 16:00-18:00 || SMD for terrified beginners || Kliment || Small space (3 tables), SMD setup || 12
|-
| 16:00-18:00 || Rakit Drum Synth - Build/Solder your own Drum Synthesizer || Darren || (overlaps with previous workshop) Small space (3 tables), irons || 15
|-
| 19:00-finished || Teardown || || ||
|}

Village:Hardware Hacking Area

2022-05-25T16:24:29Z

Saizai: /* Workshops */

{{Village
|Description=The '''Hardware Hacking Area''' is a huge area in Camping G for people of all ages and skill levels to come together and play, teach, learn, and share in many and diverse realms of making all sorts of physical things.
|Contact=Maltman23
|Activities=hardware, hardware hacking, solder, soldering, electronics, Neurohacking, mind, sleep, bci, eeg, music synthesizers, music, art, craft
|Interests=
}}



==Hardware Hacking Area==

We're the hardware hacking area. We'll bring a bus that unfolds into a large tent, and hack on hardware under that. We'll have workshops and tools and a bunch of people ready to help and teach. You can learn to solder, learn to build things that blink and/or make noise, and generally have hardware fun.

* Location: Workshop 3 [https://map.emfcamp.org/#17.78/52.041189/-2.37646 (map)], by Camping: F, at the end of the main road into camp. 
* Time: All day & all night throughout EMF.
* People: All ages, all skill levels, all welcome!

== Events ==

Want to teach a workshop, give a demo, or talk about your project? Please do! We have an area for giving talks about all sorts of cool physical projects of all sorts, with plenty of table and ground space. ''Please contact Kliment'' if you want to contribute.

'''Draft schedule'''

{| style="background-color: #F9F9F9;border: 1px solid #AAAAAA;font-size: 95%;padding: 5px;"
! style="text-align: center; background-color:#5E93CE; color: white;" | Day
! style="text-align: center; background-color:#5E93CE; color: white;" | Time
! style="text-align: center; background-color:#5E93CE; color: white;" | Event
! style="text-align: center; background-color:#5E93CE; color: white;" | Presenter
! style="text-align: center; background-color:#5E93CE; color: white;" | Space
! style="text-align: center; background-color:#5E93CE; color: white;" | Max # people
|-
| rowspan="1" | Wed 1 June
| all day ish || Setup HHA || || || ||
|-
| colspan="6" style="background-color: grey;" |
|-
| rowspan="1" | Thurs 2 June 
| 18:00-20:00 || SMD workshop for Orga & friends of the HHA || Kliment || Small space (3 tables), SMD setup || 12
|-
| colspan="6" style="background-color: grey;" |
|-
| rowspan="5" | Fri 3 June 
| 13:00-15:30 || Digital Music Synthesis || Mitch || Large space (6 tables), screen, irons || 30
|-
| 16:00-18:00 || SMD for terrified beginners || Kliment || Small space (3 tables), SMD setup || 12
|-
| 18:00-20:00 || Build/Solder your own Metal Percussion Synthesizer || Darren || Small space (3 tables), irons || 15
|-
| 20:00-22:00 || Build your own Geiger counter || Yannick || Large space (all irons), screen, irons || 35-50
|-
| 22:00-23:30 || LED Strips Everywhere for Everyone! || Mitch || Large space (5+ tables), screen || 25
|-
| colspan="6" style="background-color: grey;" |
|-
| rowspan="6" | Sat 4 June 
| 12:00-15:00 || Layout the EMF badge || Kliment || Large space (as much as possible), screen, laptops || 50
|-
| 13:00-14:30 || Blinkenrocket/Learn to solder || overflo || (overlaps with previous workshop) || TBD
|-
| 15:00-18:30 || Arduino for Total Newbies || Mitch || Large space (5-6 tables), screen, irons || 25
|-
| 19:00-21:00 || SMD for terrified beginners || Kliment || Small space (3 tables), SMD setup || 12
|-
| 19:00-20:00 || Build Your Own Z80 Retro Computer Kit || Spencer || (overlaps with previous workshop) Small space (3 tables), irons || 12
|-
| 21:00-22:00 || Hebocon robot building workshop || Tamar || Large space (as much as possible), needs helpers || 50
|-
| colspan="6" style="background-color: grey;" |
|-
| rowspan="5" | Sun 5 June 
| 10:30-11:30 || Solder some solar || Matthew || Large space (6 tables), soldering irons || 30
|-
| 12:00-15:30 || Arduino for Total Newbies || Mitch || Large space (5-6 tables), screen, irons || 25
|-
| 16:00-18:00 || SMD for terrified beginners || Kliment || Small space (3 tables), SMD setup || 12
|-
| 16:00-18:00 || Rakit Drum Synth - Build/Solder your own Drum Synthesizer || Darren || (overlaps with previous workshop) Small space (3 tables), irons || 15
|-
| 19:00-finished || Teardown || || ||
|}

Village:Hardware Hacking Area

2022-05-25T16:24:12Z

Saizai: /* Hardware Hacking Area */

{{Village
|Description=The '''Hardware Hacking Area''' is a huge area in Camping G for people of all ages and skill levels to come together and play, teach, learn, and share in many and diverse realms of making all sorts of physical things.
|Contact=Maltman23
|Activities=hardware, hardware hacking, solder, soldering, electronics, Neurohacking, mind, sleep, bci, eeg, music synthesizers, music, art, craft
|Interests=
}}



==Hardware Hacking Area==

We're the hardware hacking area. We'll bring a bus that unfolds into a large tent, and hack on hardware under that. We'll have workshops and tools and a bunch of people ready to help and teach. You can learn to solder, learn to build things that blink and/or make noise, and generally have hardware fun.

* Location: Workshop 3 [https://map.emfcamp.org/#17.78/52.041189/-2.37646 (map)], by Camping: F, at the end of the main road into camp. 
* Time: All day & all night throughout EMF.
* People: All ages, all skill levels, all welcome!

== Workshops ==

'''Draft schedule'''

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! style="text-align: center; background-color:#5E93CE; color: white;" | Day
! style="text-align: center; background-color:#5E93CE; color: white;" | Time
! style="text-align: center; background-color:#5E93CE; color: white;" | Event
! style="text-align: center; background-color:#5E93CE; color: white;" | Presenter
! style="text-align: center; background-color:#5E93CE; color: white;" | Space
! style="text-align: center; background-color:#5E93CE; color: white;" | Max # people
|-
| rowspan="1" | Wed 1 June
| all day ish || Setup HHA || || || ||
|-
| colspan="6" style="background-color: grey;" |
|-
| rowspan="1" | Thurs 2 June 
| 18:00-20:00 || SMD workshop for Orga & friends of the HHA || Kliment || Small space (3 tables), SMD setup || 12
|-
| colspan="6" style="background-color: grey;" |
|-
| rowspan="5" | Fri 3 June 
| 13:00-15:30 || Digital Music Synthesis || Mitch || Large space (6 tables), screen, irons || 30
|-
| 16:00-18:00 || SMD for terrified beginners || Kliment || Small space (3 tables), SMD setup || 12
|-
| 18:00-20:00 || Build/Solder your own Metal Percussion Synthesizer || Darren || Small space (3 tables), irons || 15
|-
| 20:00-22:00 || Build your own Geiger counter || Yannick || Large space (all irons), screen, irons || 35-50
|-
| 22:00-23:30 || LED Strips Everywhere for Everyone! || Mitch || Large space (5+ tables), screen || 25
|-
| colspan="6" style="background-color: grey;" |
|-
| rowspan="6" | Sat 4 June 
| 12:00-15:00 || Layout the EMF badge || Kliment || Large space (as much as possible), screen, laptops || 50
|-
| 13:00-14:30 || Blinkenrocket/Learn to solder || overflo || (overlaps with previous workshop) || TBD
|-
| 15:00-18:30 || Arduino for Total Newbies || Mitch || Large space (5-6 tables), screen, irons || 25
|-
| 19:00-21:00 || SMD for terrified beginners || Kliment || Small space (3 tables), SMD setup || 12
|-
| 19:00-20:00 || Build Your Own Z80 Retro Computer Kit || Spencer || (overlaps with previous workshop) Small space (3 tables), irons || 12
|-
| 21:00-22:00 || Hebocon robot building workshop || Tamar || Large space (as much as possible), needs helpers || 50
|-
| colspan="6" style="background-color: grey;" |
|-
| rowspan="5" | Sun 5 June 
| 10:30-11:30 || Solder some solar || Matthew || Large space (6 tables), soldering irons || 30
|-
| 12:00-15:30 || Arduino for Total Newbies || Mitch || Large space (5-6 tables), screen, irons || 25
|-
| 16:00-18:00 || SMD for terrified beginners || Kliment || Small space (3 tables), SMD setup || 12
|-
| 16:00-18:00 || Rakit Drum Synth - Build/Solder your own Drum Synthesizer || Darren || (overlaps with previous workshop) Small space (3 tables), irons || 15
|-
| 19:00-finished || Teardown || || ||
|}

Village:Hardware Hacking Area

2022-05-25T16:23:06Z

Saizai: /* Workshops */

{{Village
|Description=The '''Hardware Hacking Area''' is a huge area in Camping G for people of all ages and skill levels to come together and play, teach, learn, and share in many and diverse realms of making all sorts of physical things.
|Contact=Maltman23
|Activities=hardware, hardware hacking, solder, soldering, electronics, Neurohacking, mind, sleep, bci, eeg, music synthesizers, music, art, craft
|Interests=
}}



==Hardware Hacking Area==

We're the hardware hacking area. We'll bring a bus that unfolds into a large tent, and hack on hardware under that. We'll have workshops and tools and a bunch of people ready to help and teach. You can learn to solder, learn to build things that blink and/or make noise, and generally have hardware fun.

Location: Workshop 3 [https://map.emfcamp.org/#17.78/52.041189/-2.37646 (map)], by Camping: F, at the end of the main road into camp. 
Time: All day & all night throughout EMF.
People: All ages, all skill levels, all welcome!

There will be ongoing workshops on many topics.

Want to teach a workshop, give a demo, or talk about your project? Please do! We have an area for giving talks about all sorts of cool physical projects of all sorts, with plenty of table and ground space. ''Please contact Kliment'' if you want to contribute.

== Workshops ==

'''Draft schedule'''

{| style="background-color: #F9F9F9;border: 1px solid #AAAAAA;font-size: 95%;padding: 5px;"
! style="text-align: center; background-color:#5E93CE; color: white;" | Day
! style="text-align: center; background-color:#5E93CE; color: white;" | Time
! style="text-align: center; background-color:#5E93CE; color: white;" | Event
! style="text-align: center; background-color:#5E93CE; color: white;" | Presenter
! style="text-align: center; background-color:#5E93CE; color: white;" | Space
! style="text-align: center; background-color:#5E93CE; color: white;" | Max # people
|-
| rowspan="1" | Wed 1 June
| all day ish || Setup HHA || || || ||
|-
| colspan="6" style="background-color: grey;" |
|-
| rowspan="1" | Thurs 2 June 
| 18:00-20:00 || SMD workshop for Orga & friends of the HHA || Kliment || Small space (3 tables), SMD setup || 12
|-
| colspan="6" style="background-color: grey;" |
|-
| rowspan="5" | Fri 3 June 
| 13:00-15:30 || Digital Music Synthesis || Mitch || Large space (6 tables), screen, irons || 30
|-
| 16:00-18:00 || SMD for terrified beginners || Kliment || Small space (3 tables), SMD setup || 12
|-
| 18:00-20:00 || Build/Solder your own Metal Percussion Synthesizer || Darren || Small space (3 tables), irons || 15
|-
| 20:00-22:00 || Build your own Geiger counter || Yannick || Large space (all irons), screen, irons || 35-50
|-
| 22:00-23:30 || LED Strips Everywhere for Everyone! || Mitch || Large space (5+ tables), screen || 25
|-
| colspan="6" style="background-color: grey;" |
|-
| rowspan="6" | Sat 4 June 
| 12:00-15:00 || Layout the EMF badge || Kliment || Large space (as much as possible), screen, laptops || 50
|-
| 13:00-14:30 || Blinkenrocket/Learn to solder || overflo || (overlaps with previous workshop) || TBD
|-
| 15:00-18:30 || Arduino for Total Newbies || Mitch || Large space (5-6 tables), screen, irons || 25
|-
| 19:00-21:00 || SMD for terrified beginners || Kliment || Small space (3 tables), SMD setup || 12
|-
| 19:00-20:00 || Build Your Own Z80 Retro Computer Kit || Spencer || (overlaps with previous workshop) Small space (3 tables), irons || 12
|-
| 21:00-22:00 || Hebocon robot building workshop || Tamar || Large space (as much as possible), needs helpers || 50
|-
| colspan="6" style="background-color: grey;" |
|-
| rowspan="5" | Sun 5 June 
| 10:30-11:30 || Solder some solar || Matthew || Large space (6 tables), soldering irons || 30
|-
| 12:00-15:30 || Arduino for Total Newbies || Mitch || Large space (5-6 tables), screen, irons || 25
|-
| 16:00-18:00 || SMD for terrified beginners || Kliment || Small space (3 tables), SMD setup || 12
|-
| 16:00-18:00 || Rakit Drum Synth - Build/Solder your own Drum Synthesizer || Darren || (overlaps with previous workshop) Small space (3 tables), irons || 15
|-
| 19:00-finished || Teardown || || ||
|}

Village:Hardware Hacking Area

2022-05-25T16:21:28Z

Saizai: added draft schedule

{{Village
|Description=The '''Hardware Hacking Area''' is a huge area in Camping G for people of all ages and skill levels to come together and play, teach, learn, and share in many and diverse realms of making all sorts of physical things.
|Contact=Maltman23
|Activities=hardware, hardware hacking, solder, soldering, electronics, Neurohacking, mind, sleep, bci, eeg, music synthesizers, music, art, craft
|Interests=
}}



==Hardware Hacking Area==

We're the hardware hacking area. We'll bring a bus that unfolds into a large tent, and hack on hardware under that. We'll have workshops and tools and a bunch of people ready to help and teach. You can learn to solder, learn to build things that blink and/or make noise, and generally have hardware fun.

Location: Workshop 3 [https://map.emfcamp.org/#17.78/52.041189/-2.37646 (map)], by Camping: F, at the end of the main road into camp. 
Time: All day & all night throughout EMF.
People: All ages, all skill levels, all welcome!

There will be ongoing workshops on many topics.

Want to teach a workshop, give a demo, or talk about your project? Please do! We have an area for giving talks about all sorts of cool physical projects of all sorts, with plenty of table and ground space. ''Please contact Kliment'' if you want to contribute.

== Workshops ==

'''Draft schedule'''

{| style="background-color: #F9F9F9;border: 1px solid #AAAAAA;font-size: 95%;padding: 5px;"
! style="text-align: center; background-color:#5E93CE; color: white;" | Day
! style="text-align: center; background-color:#5E93CE; color: white;" | Time
! style="text-align: center; background-color:#5E93CE; color: white;" | Event
! style="text-align: center; background-color:#5E93CE; color: white;" | Presenter
! style="text-align: center; background-color:#5E93CE; color: white;" | Space
! style="text-align: center; background-color:#5E93CE; color: white;" | Max # people
|-
| rowspan="1" | Wed 1 June
| Setup || HHA || || ||
|-
| colspan="6" style="background-color: grey;" |
|-
| rowspan="1" | Thurs 2 June 
| 18:00-20:00 || SMD workshop for Orga & friends of the HHA || Kliment || Small space (3 tables), SMD setup || 12
|-
| colspan="6" style="background-color: grey;" |
|-
| rowspan="5" | Fri 3 June 
| 13:00-15:30 || Digital Music Synthesis || Mitch || Large space (6 tables), screen, irons || 30
|-
| 16:00-18:00 || SMD for terrified beginners || Kliment || Small space (3 tables), SMD setup || 12
|-
| 18:00-20:00 || Build/Solder your own Metal Percussion Synthesizer || Darren || Small space (3 tables), irons || 15
|-
| 20:00-22:00 || Build your own Geiger counter || Yannick || Large space (all irons), screen, irons || 35-50
|-
| 22:00-23:30 || LED Strips Everywhere for Everyone! || Mitch || Large space (5+ tables), screen || 25
|-
| colspan="6" style="background-color: grey;" |
|-
| rowspan="6" | Sat 4 June 
| 12:00-15:00 || Layout the EMF badge || Kliment || Large space (as much as possible), screen, laptops || 50
|-
| 13:00-14:30 || Blinkenrocket/Learn to solder || overflo || (overlaps with previous workshop) || TBD
|-
| 15:00-18:30 || Arduino for Total Newbies || Mitch || Large space (5-6 tables), screen, irons || 25
|-
| 19:00-21:00 || SMD for terrified beginners || Kliment || Small space (3 tables), SMD setup || 12
|-
| 19:00-20:00 || Build Your Own Z80 Retro Computer Kit || Spencer || (overlaps with previous workshop) Small space (3 tables), irons || 12
|-
| 21:00-22:00 || Hebocon robot building workshop || Tamar || Large space (as much as possible), needs helpers || 50
|-
| colspan="6" style="background-color: grey;" |
|-
| rowspan="5" | Sun 5 June 
| 10:30-11:30 || Solder some solar || Matthew || Large space (6 tables), soldering irons || 30
|-
| 12:00-15:30 || Arduino for Total Newbies || Mitch || Large space (5-6 tables), screen, irons || 25
|-
| 16:00-18:00 || SMD for terrified beginners || Kliment || Small space (3 tables), SMD setup || 12
|-
| 16:00-18:00 || Rakit Drum Synth - Build/Solder your own Drum Synthesizer || Darren || (overlaps with previous workshop) Small space (3 tables), irons || 15
|-
| 19:00-finished || Teardown || || ||
|}

User:Saizai

2022-05-25T15:29:55Z

Saizai: + EPVPN number

{{Attendee
|Name=Sai
|Village=Village:Hardware Hacking Area
|Bringing=blind stuff (canes, braille labeller, frame & stylus, etc)
|Arrival=2022-06-02T14:00:00.000Z
|Departure=2022-06-06T12:00:00.000Z
|Website=https://s.ai
|Email=emf@saizai.com
|IRC=saizai
|Twitter=saizai
|Facebook=saizai
|Pronouns=🇺🇸🇬🇧 they/you, 🇷🇺 они/вы, 🇫🇷 iel/vous, 🇪🇸 elle/Ud., 🇯🇵 あの人/貴方, 🇨🇳 他/您
|Access=blind
}}

Hi, I'm Sai (I'm mononymous); my handle is saizai pretty much everywhere. I'm a hacker (with main interests in neuroscience, conlangs, law, & AI), non-binary/agender, and light-blind.

I speak English, Russian, American Sign Language, French, & Spanish to at least conversational fluency, plus marginal Japanese, minimal Chinese, and barely-existent Arabic. N.b. I don't know British Sign Language (except the alphabet), and ASL/BSL aren't mutually intelligible.

= Phone =

* Long-term [https://eventphone.de/doku/epvpn EPVPN] extension: '''7247 (SAI-7)''' — also EventPhone, but not reachable from the EMF DECT network; you have to [https://eventphone.de/doku/epvpn separately register w/ EPVPN]. In theory this should work right now, and after EMF as well.
* EMF 2022 DECT: '''4724 (4-SAI)''' - should be reachable between 2 June 3pm to 6 June noon, from the EMF DECT network.

= Talk, workshops, & goalball =

Signup form under revision, should be available soon.

== Volunteers needed ==

I will need volunteers who can help. If possible, we should meet up on Thursday (day 0 after ~4pm) to practice, discuss any issues, prep, etc.

See https://s.ai/emf (soon) for links, and [https://s.ai/contact contact me] if you can help.

1. Sense Without Sight talk
* On stage (must consent to be recorded)
** aikido uke (1-2 people)
:: Have the martial arts skills to safely attack me with grabs & hand strikes, and take wrist/joint locks, takedown, etc. You don't need to have aikido experience specifically (I do); judo, hapkido, jiujitsu (standing techniques), or similar background should work also. We will need to practice with each other beforehand so we're both comfortable. No kicks, highfalls/breakfalls, or rolls, due to limited space on stage.
** "Goofus" and "Gallant" (1 person each; can double as uke)
:: Play the part of asshole (Goofus) or helpful person (Gallant), in specific, scripted ways. Involves light physical contact, e.g. grabbing/being grabbed by the arm, leading/being led by touch, touching neck/cheek for heat-gradient demo. For Gallant, also involves briefly being blindfolded and led around stage by me, helping get my canes, etc.
** Slides helper (1 person)
:: Change my slides as needed. Ring a little bell to tell me when my timing says I should be moving to the next segment. Possibly remind me if I forget something I meant to do (you'll have my outline).
* Off stage (needn't consent to being recorded, but preferable)
** Audience sensory assistants (2-4 people)
:: Move through the audience aisles to make sound, make air currents, or carry a hidden scented item (e.g. holding coffee, scratching an orange, etc; whatever's available). Helpful if you have a scooter, skateboard, bike, hoverboard, or the like, but not required.
:: Make a sharp clap in different parts of the tent
2. Sense Without Sight / blind navigation Workshops
* assistants (paired 1-on-1 with each student participant); see below for details
: Negative COVID test and signup required. Preferable (but not required) if you've been a student participant before yourself or are student participant's friend/partner/parent/sibling.
* videographer (1-2 people, 1 time)
: Follow along one of my workshops and take video of me, students, etc. for posting to YouTube etc. I'll bring a couple cheap GoPro-style cameras; if you can bring better cameras, or wireless mics (esp. binaural, directional mics), that'd be appreciated. Will need to agree to give me copyright to resulting audio/video or licence under CC by-nc-sa or similar; will of course give credit and link as you prefer.
3. Goalball (time TBD, dependent on signups/volunteers)
* setup & teardown
: Help set up the field — measure lines, lay down rope/cable/tape (as tactile markers), arrange crates of empty Mate bottles as goal / sides backstops, etc. See [https://goalball.sport/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/948-General-Goalball-Court-Layout-2019.pdf official goalball court layout guide].
* referees & assistants
: Read the [https://goalball.sport/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/IBSA-Goalball-Rules-and-Regulations-2022-2024-v1.1-4-Feb-22.docx-Summary-Change-document.pdf official rules]; call goals and points; get new players briefed, blindfolded, and oriented; keep time; catch and return balls that go out of bounds or hit goal; lead players on/off field; etc. No experience required, and we're not being formal, so most of the rules are relaxed. Can also participate (and recommended to do so); needn't be on for the full time.

== Sense without sight / blind navigation ==

I'm giving the Sense Without Sight / blind navigation [https://www.emfcamp.org/schedule/2022/8-sense-without-sight talk] & [https://www.emfcamp.org/schedule/2022/152-sense-without-sight-hands-on-workshop workshops].

I'd appreciate if you fill out the "for Science" section of the [https://s.ai/emf/ws sign up / pre-talk form] before going to my talk, and the [https://s.ai/emf/fb feedback form] afterwards.

=== Workshop ===

Take a walk with me through camp — blindfolded, with one of my guide canes — and sense the world like I do: using air currents, heat, sound, echolocation, ground texture, wind shadow, and more. It's a unique, permanent sensory upgrade you can still use when sighted.

Workshops are every day at 9pm (sunset), possibly other times (depending on light levels and my stamina & voice), and by special arrangement, and last ~1–1.5 hours. They start at my tent, near the Hardware Hacking Area. It might be marked with a [https://conlang.org/conlang-flag/ conlang flag].

I can handle 4 student participants, 4 assistants, & 5 observers per workshop.

Details & signup form available soon at https://s.ai/emf

1. Mandatory for all students & assistants:
* [https://s.ai/emf/ws Sign up] beforehand and [https://s.ai/emf/fb provide feedback] afterwards.
* Watch my talk first, preferably in person (but there's video also). You'll learn much more if we can focus on what I can't show in the talk.
* Have a negative COVID test in last 48h. LFTs will be available at the medical tent at your convenience for a minimal fee.
* Be totally sober.
* Pee & wash your hands first.
* Reserve at least 1 full hour, preferably 1.5. Doing a "shortened" version does not work well (I've tried); it is very fast-paced as is.
* Age 15+. If you're a minor, bring a responsible adult to act as your assistant (who's also signed up).
* Contact me in advance about any disability or other situation affecting your senses, mobility, stability, concentration, or sensory overload. I can accommodate most disabilities (and FWIW one of my best students ever used a manual wheelchair). Some may require special arrangements (e.g. slightly different paths for wheelchair users; hearing interpreter for deaf people; 1-on-1 for both), but most are just things I need to be aware of, and can fit in the regular workshop.
2. Strongly encouraged:
* Fill out the "for Science" section of signup & feedback forms.
* Find & bring someone to act as your assistant, preferably someone who's done my workshop before (and have them sign up); ask around camp or Twitter @EMFCamp #BlindNavigation. I'll try to arrange for assistants if you don't bring one.
* Have head uncovered, wear short sleeves, and thin shoes.
* Bring a full-coverage blindfold / sleep mask. I'll have a bunch of extras, but I can't re-sterilise them during camp.
* Act as an assistant after having done the workshop as participant. You'll learn a lot more than just the first time, and help others like someone else helped you.

==== Student participants ====

My goal with this workshop is for you to have an experience that is as close as possible to an accurate taste of what being blind is really like — including the sensory input, orientation, identification, path-finding, etc. that I use every day. In fact, it's based directly on how I was taught myself, by a blind friend, over course of a few days — just greatly condensed and without most of the practical skills that you'd need to actually navigate on your own. One hour is not enough to teach you to get around without my help — but it is enough to teach you how to use senses you've probably never noticed before.

The workshop is fast-paced but very carefully incremental, along paths I've personally checked first. We start with literally just walking back and forth in a totally clear area; by the end, you'll have been able to do a lot more than you probably expect — including sensing and navigating the tents, guylines, roots, branches, ditches, crates of Mate, rough dirt, grass, gravel, people, robots, etc. that are throughout camp.

I want you to come out of the workshop with a feeling of empowerment and newly broadened senses, not fear or pity. It is normal to feel anxious due to disorientation in the first few minutes. Just pay attention to the things I point out; I promise that this changes once you understand different ways of orienting yourself. This is why I do not do "short" workshops — it takes time for you to acclimatise to a totally different way of perceiving the world, and one hour is about the minimum in which I can reliably bring people over that initial hump.

Everyone varies on what's easier for them to sense (e.g. echolocation, air pressure, heat, etc). Most people can perceive at least a bit of everything I show (though not 100%). For some things (like doorways & wall corners), almost everyone I've taught has minimal confidence that they even feel it at all — yet when I have them test it, they get it right anyway. A lot of these sensations are subtle. That's fine. Practice noticing the same things in the days and years after and you'll discover it becomes a lot more obvious and intuitive over time.

Although most people expect it to be an experience of sensory deprivation, blindness is actually an experience of sensory over-stimulation. If you start to feel overwhelmed, just tell me and I'll provide ways to lower the intensity.

It's normal to perceive a subtle stimulus as a sensory experience, but be confused about how to identify or interpret it. It'll probably require conscious processing to puzzle out. For most people (including me!), it requires years of experience before having the subjective shift from "I can tell there's a some sort of difference in the sound quality on my left vs my right" to "I hear a plastic wall at my 4 o'clock" (though some of my students have gotten this within an hour). That's fine; the idea is for you to get a realistic taste of the sensory experience, not to be able to navigate on your own. I'll help guide you to notice more than you did at first and think it through, and help you interpret things that simply require more experience.

I ''will'' let you walk into lots of different things (with your cane) without telling you first, if I'm confident that you can handle them and they're not actually dangerous. Allowing you to explore for yourself — and guiding you to notice and interpret stimuli you missed the first time — is a critical part of what makes this work. Walking into things is one of the primary orientation strategies, not a problem, and it's one of the primary purposes of a guide cane; if you watch me walking around camp, you'll notice that I do so all the time.

Caning out of sync or with a bad sweep range, or walking with abnormal gait, are pretty much the only parts that are a safety issue. You can't ingrain cane skills well enough in just an hour to be fully consistent, which is why correcting this is nearly the only way I will have assistants interrupt you, and why I spend the first several minutes just having you walk normally on a simple, straight path. It's also why I require that you be totally sober. So far, of ~130–150 students I've taught to date, only one has had any injury — a mild bruise due to caning out of sync that wasn't caught by their assistant (and I've revised things to help correct for that). However, nobody's perfect, and EMF is in a somewhat chaotic field. It's possible you might trip, walk into something in a way that's not intentional, or the like — which is why the signup form includes a liability waiver saying you won't sue me or EMF if you get hurt.

Bottom line: I can guarantee that you'll leave having learnt to perceive the world in ways that you never noticed before, and you won't get this kind of training from anyone else (unless you become blind yourself). And if you practice, you'll have permanently expanded senses, not just an abstract understanding. Ask anyone who's done my workshop before, or check out the (approved-to-be-public) [https://s.ai/emf/fbr feedback I've gotten so far] — and please post your own comments on it publicly if you feel comfortable doing so.

==== Assistants ====

Assistants follow one student around for the entire workshop. I'll explain it at the outset and be supervising & teaching throughout; I just can't fully monitor 4 students on my own. Generally the job is to not interfere at all — but to monitor and correct a couple safety issues, help lead students to stimuli they may've missed, and keep everyone close enough together so I don't wear out my voice. I strongly encourage assistants to have first been a student, and students to act as an assistant for someone else in a subsequent session; both people will learn a lot more.

==== Observers ====

Observers are welcome to tag along for all or part of any workshop. You can ask questions when I'm not attending to a student. Feel free to sit or stand in the way or otherwise behave as usual; humans are part of obstacles found in the normal environment and part of what I teach. Just don't do anything to my students that I'd want you to not do to me (see below). If there're more than 5 observers currently present, just come back another time (or sign up to participate yourself).

== Goalball ==

I may be co-running games of [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxxGf82as4Q goalball], TBD on volunteers.

== Meditation workshop ==

I'm also running a [https://www.emfcamp.org/schedule/2022/151-meditation-for-hackers meditation workshop].

No signup etc required.

= Blind stuff =

== You can see me, but I can't see you ==

I should be very easy to recognize, 'cause I should be the only person at EMF who has both a long white/red guide cane and a white/black/red walking cane.

I am light-blind — fully sighted in sufficiently dim environments, fully blind (or in significant pain) in sufficiently bright ones. I use a screen reader, braille, etc., when I'm outside or over pain tolerance, and (usually) usual sighted stuff when I'm not.

Unless there is no light source in my field of view, I probably can't see you. I might not know you're there even if you're looking at me, and may not realize that you're talking to me if you say something in my general direction unless you use my name. So, please talk.

== Socialising ==

My blindness limits my ability to add myself to conversations, discover neat people & things, etc — but I ''do'' like talking, making friends, learning and making new things, playing with robots, good board games (like Go), etc. just like any other hacker. So if you see me, please come up and introduce yourself, invite me to something, let me know about cool stuff in the area, or the like. Please say my name (Sai) so I know you're addressing me.

[https://s.ai My website] should give you a reasonable spread of potential topics of mutual interest. I'm always love to learn what I don't know I don't know, so if there's something that ''you'' think is interesting, please bring it up.

One exception: let's please talk about something ''other'' than blindness, unless it's in the context of my talk or workshops, or if you have related feedback or proposals. I don't want to be "token blind person", and the Q&As from my talk & workshops will probably saturate my tolerance for that particular topic.

I generally like hugs, skritches, etc., but always ''ask first''. If you like such things too, please tell me explicitly, 'cause I'm probably not able to pick up on your body language cues.

For longer interactions, I would be more comfortable if I am in a darker environment (with no lights in my field of view) and sitting down.

Although I can use my phone while blind, it's fairly tedious and requires attention — I can't easily walk and read at the same time (let alone write). Expect me to check email, Twitter, etc. during camp only when I wake up and go to sleep, not during the day. If there's something that needs a same-day response, please call (DECT 4724) or tell me in person.

== Blind courtesy tips ==

You do ''not'' need to get out of my way or the like when I'm walking around — and I prefer you don't. I can navigate around you just fine.

If you cough, talk, scuff your feet, or the like, it'll help me know you're there and walk around you. If you freeze up, I'll probably hit you in the foot with my guide cane. That doesn't bother me, and it doesn't hurt, but it might startle you. If I'm queuing behind you, I'll probably maintain gentle contact on your heel with my cane so I know when to move.

I can deal with almost all obstacles by myself, and walking into things is a feature, not a bug. However, please do tell me about:
* fragile or spillable objects at ground level that'd be damaged by being stepped on or hit with a cane (e.g. robots, non-empty bottles, silent toddlers); and
* objects with substantial projections above hip level, since I can miss them with my cane and faceplant (e.g. convex sculptures, guy lines, signs on posts, lorries with high undercarriage, tree branches).

Just address me saying what and where it is (e.g. "hey Sai, there's a signpost at your 2 o'clock") — not instructions (e.g. "go left").

If I'm asking directions, I strongly prefer a verbal description, or (with my consent) a map drawn on my back (where up means the direction I'm facing). If you're pointing out a specific nearby object for me to interact with (e.g. table, chair), just tap it a couple times with your hand so I can orient precisely. If I'm following you, I will probably do so by sound (just keep talking or scuff your feet); if I'm having sensory overload, I might ask to follow you by holding onto your arm / elbow, but that's rare.

Please do ''not'':
* cut across me in front (you'll trip and tangle my cane)
* grab me or my cane, or move any of my things, without my express consent
** ... unless I'm about to actually hurt myself or someone else
* move things in my environment without telling me (it fucks with my object permanence)
* walk away without telling me (I'll end up talking to the air until I notice)
* expect me to notice visual cues (e.g. pointing) — I can detect some of these, but it takes effort, and my attention will be overburdened already

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|Description=The '''Hardware Hacking Area''' is a huge area in Camping G for people of all ages and skill levels to come together and play, teach, learn, and share in many and diverse realms of making all sorts of physical things.
|Contact=Maltman23
|Activities=hardware, hardware hacking, solder, soldering, electronics, Neurohacking, mind, sleep, bci, eeg, music synthesizers, music, art, craft
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==Hardware Hacking Area==
We're the hardware hacking area, in the Workshop 3 tent [https://map.emfcamp.org/#17.78/52.041189/-2.37646 (map)], by Camping: F.

We'll bring a bus that unfolds into a large tent, and hack on hardware under that. We'll have workshops and tools and a bunch of people ready to help and teach. You can learn to solder, learn to build things that blink and/or make noise, and generally have hardware fun.

There will be ongoing workshops on many topics.



 

All ages, all skill levels, all welcome!

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|Activities=hardware, hardware hacking, solder, soldering, electronics, Neurohacking, mind, sleep, bci, eeg, music synthesizers, music, art, craft
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==Hardware Hacking Area==
We're the hardware hacking area, in the Workshop 3 tent [https://map.emfcamp.org/#17.78/52.041189/-2.37646 (map)], by Camping: F.

We'll bring a bus that unfolds into a large tent, and hack on hardware under that. We'll have workshops and tools and a bunch of people ready to help and teach. You can learn to solder, learn to build things that blink and/or make noise, and generally have hardware fun.

There will be ongoing workshops on many topics.



 

All ages, all skill levels, all welcome!

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|Contact=Maltman23
|Activities=hardware, hardware hacking, solder, soldering, electronics, Neurohacking, mind, sleep, bci, eeg, music synthesizers, music, art, craft
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==Hardware Hacking Area==
We're the hardware hacking area, in the Workshop 3 tent [https://map.emfcamp.org/#17.78/52.041189/-2.37646 (map)], by Camping: F.

We'll bring a bus that unfolds into a large tent, and hack on hardware under that. We'll have workshops and tools and a bunch of people ready to help and teach. You can learn to solder, learn to build things that blink and/or make noise, and generally have hardware fun.

There will be ongoing workshops on many topics.



 

All ages, all skill levels, all welcome!

User:Saizai/deleteme

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|Contact=Maltman23
|Activities=hardware, hardware hacking, solder, soldering, electronics, Neurohacking, mind, sleep, bci, eeg, music synthesizers, music, art, craft
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==Hardware Hacking Area==
We're the hardware hacking area, in the Workshop 3 tent [https://map.emfcamp.org/#17.78/52.041189/-2.37646 (map)], by Camping: F.

We'll bring a bus that unfolds into a large tent, and hack on hardware under that. We'll have workshops and tools and a bunch of people ready to help and teach. You can learn to solder, learn to build things that blink and/or make noise, and generally have hardware fun.

There will be ongoing workshops on many topics.



 

All ages, all skill levels, all welcome!

User:Saizai

2022-05-24T16:08:13Z

Saizai:

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|Arrival=2022-06-02T14:00:00.000Z
|Departure=2022-06-06T12:00:00.000Z
|Website=https://s.ai
|Email=emf@saizai.com
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|Twitter=saizai
|Facebook=saizai
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Hi, I'm Sai (I'm mononymous); my handle is saizai pretty much everywhere. I'm a hacker (with main interests in neuroscience, conlangs, law, & AI), non-binary/agender, and light-blind.

I speak English, Russian, American Sign Language, French, & Spanish to at least conversational fluency, plus marginal Japanese, minimal Chinese, and barely-existent Arabic. N.b. I don't know British Sign Language (except the alphabet), and ASL/BSL aren't mutually intelligible.

'''DECT Phone: 4724 (4-SAI)'''

= Talk, workshops, & goalball =

Signup form under revision, should be available soon.

== Volunteers needed ==

I will need volunteers who can help. If possible, we should meet up on Thursday (day 0 after ~4pm) to practice, discuss any issues, prep, etc.

See https://s.ai/emf (soon) for links, and [https://s.ai/contact contact me] if you can help.

1. Sense Without Sight talk
* On stage (must consent to be recorded)
** aikido uke (1-2 people)
:: Have the martial arts skills to safely attack me with grabs & hand strikes, and take wrist/joint locks, takedown, etc. You don't need to have aikido experience specifically (I do); judo, hapkido, jiujitsu (standing techniques), or similar background should work also. We will need to practice with each other beforehand so we're both comfortable. No kicks, highfalls/breakfalls, or rolls, due to limited space on stage.
** "Goofus" and "Gallant" (1 person each; can double as uke)
:: Play the part of asshole (Goofus) or helpful person (Gallant), in specific, scripted ways. Involves light physical contact, e.g. grabbing/being grabbed by the arm, leading/being led by touch, touching neck/cheek for heat-gradient demo. For Gallant, also involves briefly being blindfolded and led around stage by me, helping get my canes, etc.
** Slides helper (1 person)
:: Change my slides as needed. Ring a little bell to tell me when my timing says I should be moving to the next segment. Possibly remind me if I forget something I meant to do (you'll have my outline).
* Off stage (needn't consent to being recorded, but preferable)
** Audience sensory assistants (2-4 people)
:: Move through the audience aisles to make sound, make air currents, or carry a hidden scented item (e.g. holding coffee, scratching an orange, etc; whatever's available). Helpful if you have a scooter, skateboard, bike, hoverboard, or the like, but not required.
:: Make a sharp clap in different parts of the tent
2. Sense Without Sight / blind navigation Workshops
* assistants (paired 1-on-1 with each student participant); see below for details
: Negative COVID test and signup required. Preferable (but not required) if you've been a student participant before yourself or are student participant's friend/partner/parent/sibling.
* videographer (1-2 people, 1 time)
: Follow along one of my workshops and take video of me, students, etc. for posting to YouTube etc. I'll bring a couple cheap GoPro-style cameras; if you can bring better cameras, or wireless mics (esp. binaural, directional mics), that'd be appreciated. Will need to agree to give me copyright to resulting audio/video or licence under CC by-nc-sa or similar; will of course give credit and link as you prefer.
3. Goalball (time TBD, dependent on signups/volunteers)
* setup & teardown
: Help set up the field — measure lines, lay down rope/cable/tape (as tactile markers), arrange crates of empty Mate bottles as goal / sides backstops, etc. See [https://goalball.sport/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/948-General-Goalball-Court-Layout-2019.pdf official goalball court layout guide].
* referees & assistants
: Read the [https://goalball.sport/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/IBSA-Goalball-Rules-and-Regulations-2022-2024-v1.1-4-Feb-22.docx-Summary-Change-document.pdf official rules]; call goals and points; get new players briefed, blindfolded, and oriented; keep time; catch and return balls that go out of bounds or hit goal; lead players on/off field; etc. No experience required, and we're not being formal, so most of the rules are relaxed. Can also participate (and recommended to do so); needn't be on for the full time.

== Sense without sight / blind navigation ==

I'm giving the Sense Without Sight / blind navigation [https://www.emfcamp.org/schedule/2022/8-sense-without-sight talk] & [https://www.emfcamp.org/schedule/2022/152-sense-without-sight-hands-on-workshop workshops].

I'd appreciate if you fill out the "for Science" section of the [https://s.ai/emf/ws sign up / pre-talk form] before going to my talk, and the [https://s.ai/emf/fb feedback form] afterwards.

=== Workshop ===

Take a walk with me through camp — blindfolded, with one of my guide canes — and sense the world like I do: using air currents, heat, sound, echolocation, ground texture, wind shadow, and more. It's a unique, permanent sensory upgrade you can still use when sighted.

Workshops are every day at 9pm (sunset), possibly other times (depending on light levels and my stamina & voice), and by special arrangement, and last ~1–1.5 hours. They start at my tent, near the Hardware Hacking Area. It might be marked with a [https://conlang.org/conlang-flag/ conlang flag].

I can handle 4 student participants, 4 assistants, & 5 observers per workshop.

Details & signup form available soon at https://s.ai/emf

1. Mandatory for all students & assistants:
* [https://s.ai/emf/ws Sign up] beforehand and [https://s.ai/emf/fb provide feedback] afterwards.
* Watch my talk first, preferably in person (but there's video also). You'll learn much more if we can focus on what I can't show in the talk.
* Have a negative COVID test in last 48h. LFTs will be available at the medical tent at your convenience for a minimal fee.
* Be totally sober.
* Pee & wash your hands first.
* Reserve at least 1 full hour, preferably 1.5. Doing a "shortened" version does not work well (I've tried); it is very fast-paced as is.
* Age 15+. If you're a minor, bring a responsible adult to act as your assistant (who's also signed up).
* Contact me in advance about any disability or other situation affecting your senses, mobility, stability, concentration, or sensory overload. I can accommodate most disabilities (and FWIW one of my best students ever used a manual wheelchair). Some may require special arrangements (e.g. slightly different paths for wheelchair users; hearing interpreter for deaf people; 1-on-1 for both), but most are just things I need to be aware of, and can fit in the regular workshop.
2. Strongly encouraged:
* Fill out the "for Science" section of signup & feedback forms.
* Find & bring someone to act as your assistant, preferably someone who's done my workshop before (and have them sign up); ask around camp or Twitter @EMFCamp #BlindNavigation. I'll try to arrange for assistants if you don't bring one.
* Have head uncovered, wear short sleeves, and thin shoes.
* Bring a full-coverage blindfold / sleep mask. I'll have a bunch of extras, but I can't re-sterilise them during camp.
* Act as an assistant after having done the workshop as participant. You'll learn a lot more than just the first time, and help others like someone else helped you.

==== Student participants ====

My goal with this workshop is for you to have an experience that is as close as possible to an accurate taste of what being blind is really like — including the sensory input, orientation, identification, path-finding, etc. that I use every day. In fact, it's based directly on how I was taught myself, by a blind friend, over course of a few days — just greatly condensed and without most of the practical skills that you'd need to actually navigate on your own. One hour is not enough to teach you to get around without my help — but it is enough to teach you how to use senses you've probably never noticed before.

The workshop is fast-paced but very carefully incremental, along paths I've personally checked first. We start with literally just walking back and forth in a totally clear area; by the end, you'll have been able to do a lot more than you probably expect — including sensing and navigating the tents, guylines, roots, branches, ditches, crates of Mate, rough dirt, grass, gravel, people, robots, etc. that are throughout camp.

I want you to come out of the workshop with a feeling of empowerment and newly broadened senses, not fear or pity. It is normal to feel anxious due to disorientation in the first few minutes. Just pay attention to the things I point out; I promise that this changes once you understand different ways of orienting yourself. This is why I do not do "short" workshops — it takes time for you to acclimatise to a totally different way of perceiving the world, and one hour is about the minimum in which I can reliably bring people over that initial hump.

Everyone varies on what's easier for them to sense (e.g. echolocation, air pressure, heat, etc). Most people can perceive at least a bit of everything I show (though not 100%). For some things (like doorways & wall corners), almost everyone I've taught has minimal confidence that they even feel it at all — yet when I have them test it, they get it right anyway. A lot of these sensations are subtle. That's fine. Practice noticing the same things in the days and years after and you'll discover it becomes a lot more obvious and intuitive over time.

Although most people expect it to be an experience of sensory deprivation, blindness is actually an experience of sensory over-stimulation. If you start to feel overwhelmed, just tell me and I'll provide ways to lower the intensity.

It's normal to perceive a subtle stimulus as a sensory experience, but be confused about how to identify or interpret it. It'll probably require conscious processing to puzzle out. For most people (including me!), it requires years of experience before having the subjective shift from "I can tell there's a some sort of difference in the sound quality on my left vs my right" to "I hear a plastic wall at my 4 o'clock" (though some of my students have gotten this within an hour). That's fine; the idea is for you to get a realistic taste of the sensory experience, not to be able to navigate on your own. I'll help guide you to notice more than you did at first and think it through, and help you interpret things that simply require more experience.

I ''will'' let you walk into lots of different things (with your cane) without telling you first, if I'm confident that you can handle them and they're not actually dangerous. Allowing you to explore for yourself — and guiding you to notice and interpret stimuli you missed the first time — is a critical part of what makes this work. Walking into things is one of the primary orientation strategies, not a problem, and it's one of the primary purposes of a guide cane; if you watch me walking around camp, you'll notice that I do so all the time.

Caning out of sync or with a bad sweep range, or walking with abnormal gait, are pretty much the only parts that are a safety issue. You can't ingrain cane skills well enough in just an hour to be fully consistent, which is why correcting this is nearly the only way I will have assistants interrupt you, and why I spend the first several minutes just having you walk normally on a simple, straight path. It's also why I require that you be totally sober. So far, of ~130–150 students I've taught to date, only one has had any injury — a mild bruise due to caning out of sync that wasn't caught by their assistant (and I've revised things to help correct for that). However, nobody's perfect, and EMF is in a somewhat chaotic field. It's possible you might trip, walk into something in a way that's not intentional, or the like — which is why the signup form includes a liability waiver saying you won't sue me or EMF if you get hurt.

Bottom line: I can guarantee that you'll leave having learnt to perceive the world in ways that you never noticed before, and you won't get this kind of training from anyone else (unless you become blind yourself). And if you practice, you'll have permanently expanded senses, not just an abstract understanding. Ask anyone who's done my workshop before, or check out the (approved-to-be-public) [https://s.ai/emf/fbr feedback I've gotten so far] — and please post your own comments on it publicly if you feel comfortable doing so.

==== Assistants ====

Assistants follow one student around for the entire workshop. I'll explain it at the outset and be supervising & teaching throughout; I just can't fully monitor 4 students on my own. Generally the job is to not interfere at all — but to monitor and correct a couple safety issues, help lead students to stimuli they may've missed, and keep everyone close enough together so I don't wear out my voice. I strongly encourage assistants to have first been a student, and students to act as an assistant for someone else in a subsequent session; both people will learn a lot more.

==== Observers ====

Observers are welcome to tag along for all or part of any workshop. You can ask questions when I'm not attending to a student. Feel free to sit or stand in the way or otherwise behave as usual; humans are part of obstacles found in the normal environment and part of what I teach. Just don't do anything to my students that I'd want you to not do to me (see below). If there're more than 5 observers currently present, just come back another time (or sign up to participate yourself).

== Goalball ==

I may be co-running games of [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxxGf82as4Q goalball], TBD on volunteers.

== Meditation workshop ==

I'm also running a [https://www.emfcamp.org/schedule/2022/151-meditation-for-hackers meditation workshop].

No signup etc required.

= Blind stuff =

== You can see me, but I can't see you ==

I should be very easy to recognize, 'cause I should be the only person at EMF who has both a long white/red guide cane and a white/black/red walking cane.

I am light-blind — fully sighted in sufficiently dim environments, fully blind (or in significant pain) in sufficiently bright ones. I use a screen reader, braille, etc., when I'm outside or over pain tolerance, and (usually) usual sighted stuff when I'm not.

Unless there is no light source in my field of view, I probably can't see you. I might not know you're there even if you're looking at me, and may not realize that you're talking to me if you say something in my general direction unless you use my name. So, please talk.

== Socialising ==

My blindness limits my ability to add myself to conversations, discover neat people & things, etc — but I ''do'' like talking, making friends, learning and making new things, playing with robots, good board games (like Go), etc. just like any other hacker. So if you see me, please come up and introduce yourself, invite me to something, let me know about cool stuff in the area, or the like. Please say my name (Sai) so I know you're addressing me.

[https://s.ai My website] should give you a reasonable spread of potential topics of mutual interest. I'm always love to learn what I don't know I don't know, so if there's something that ''you'' think is interesting, please bring it up.

One exception: let's please talk about something ''other'' than blindness, unless it's in the context of my talk or workshops, or if you have related feedback or proposals. I don't want to be "token blind person", and the Q&As from my talk & workshops will probably saturate my tolerance for that particular topic.

I generally like hugs, skritches, etc., but always ''ask first''. If you like such things too, please tell me explicitly, 'cause I'm probably not able to pick up on your body language cues.

For longer interactions, I would be more comfortable if I am in a darker environment (with no lights in my field of view) and sitting down.

Although I can use my phone while blind, it's fairly tedious and requires attention — I can't easily walk and read at the same time (let alone write). Expect me to check email, Twitter, etc. during camp only when I wake up and go to sleep, not during the day. If there's something that needs a same-day response, please call (DECT 4724) or tell me in person.

== Blind courtesy tips ==

You do ''not'' need to get out of my way or the like when I'm walking around — and I prefer you don't. I can navigate around you just fine.

If you cough, talk, scuff your feet, or the like, it'll help me know you're there and walk around you. If you freeze up, I'll probably hit you in the foot with my guide cane. That doesn't bother me, and it doesn't hurt, but it might startle you. If I'm queuing behind you, I'll probably maintain gentle contact on your heel with my cane so I know when to move.

I can deal with almost all obstacles by myself, and walking into things is a feature, not a bug. However, please do tell me about:
* fragile or spillable objects at ground level that'd be damaged by being stepped on or hit with a cane (e.g. robots, non-empty bottles, silent toddlers); and
* objects with substantial projections above hip level, since I can miss them with my cane and faceplant (e.g. convex sculptures, guy lines, signs on posts, lorries with high undercarriage, tree branches).

Just address me saying what and where it is (e.g. "hey Sai, there's a signpost at your 2 o'clock") — not instructions (e.g. "go left").

If I'm asking directions, I strongly prefer a verbal description, or (with my consent) a map drawn on my back (where up means the direction I'm facing). If you're pointing out a specific nearby object for me to interact with (e.g. table, chair), just tap it a couple times with your hand so I can orient precisely. If I'm following you, I will probably do so by sound (just keep talking or scuff your feet); if I'm having sensory overload, I might ask to follow you by holding onto your arm / elbow, but that's rare.

Please do ''not'':
* cut across me in front (you'll trip and tangle my cane)
* grab me or my cane, or move any of my things, without my express consent
** ... unless I'm about to actually hurt myself or someone else
* move things in my environment without telling me (it fucks with my object permanence)
* walk away without telling me (I'll end up talking to the air until I notice)
* expect me to notice visual cues (e.g. pointing) — I can detect some of these, but it takes effort, and my attention will be overburdened already

User:Saizai

2022-05-24T16:07:07Z

Saizai: dect

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|IRC=saizai
|Twitter=saizai
|Facebook=saizai
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Hi, I'm Sai (I'm mononymous); my handle is saizai pretty much everywhere. I'm a hacker (with main interests in neuroscience, conlangs, law, & AI), non-binary/agender, and light-blind.

I speak English, Russian, American Sign Language, French, & Spanish to at least conversational fluency, plus marginal Japanese, minimal Chinese, and barely-existent Arabic. N.b. I don't know British Sign Language (except the alphabet), and ASL/BSL aren't mutually intelligible.

'''DECT Phone: 4724 (4-SAI)'''

= Talk, workshops, & goalball ==

Signup form under revision, should be available soon.

== Volunteers needed ==

I will need volunteers who can help. If possible, we should meet up on Thursday (day 0 after ~4pm) to practice, discuss any issues, prep, etc.

See https://s.ai/emf (soon) for links, and [https://s.ai/contact contact me] if you can help.

1. Sense Without Sight talk
* On stage (must consent to be recorded)
** aikido uke (1-2 people)
:: Have the martial arts skills to safely attack me with grabs & hand strikes, and take wrist/joint locks, takedown, etc. You don't need to have aikido experience specifically (I do); judo, hapkido, jiujitsu (standing techniques), or similar background should work also. We will need to practice with each other beforehand so we're both comfortable. No kicks, highfalls/breakfalls, or rolls, due to limited space on stage.
** "Goofus" and "Gallant" (1 person each; can double as uke)
:: Play the part of asshole (Goofus) or helpful person (Gallant), in specific, scripted ways. Involves light physical contact, e.g. grabbing/being grabbed by the arm, leading/being led by touch, touching neck/cheek for heat-gradient demo. For Gallant, also involves briefly being blindfolded and led around stage by me, helping get my canes, etc.
** Slides helper (1 person)
:: Change my slides as needed. Ring a little bell to tell me when my timing says I should be moving to the next segment. Possibly remind me if I forget something I meant to do (you'll have my outline).
* Off stage (needn't consent to being recorded, but preferable)
** Audience sensory assistants (2-4 people)
:: Move through the audience aisles to make sound, make air currents, or carry a hidden scented item (e.g. holding coffee, scratching an orange, etc; whatever's available). Helpful if you have a scooter, skateboard, bike, hoverboard, or the like, but not required.
:: Make a sharp clap in different parts of the tent
2. Sense Without Sight / blind navigation Workshops
* assistants (paired 1-on-1 with each student participant); see below for details
: Negative COVID test and signup required. Preferable (but not required) if you've been a student participant before yourself or are student participant's friend/partner/parent/sibling.
* videographer (1-2 people, 1 time)
: Follow along one of my workshops and take video of me, students, etc. for posting to YouTube etc. I'll bring a couple cheap GoPro-style cameras; if you can bring better cameras, or wireless mics (esp. binaural, directional mics), that'd be appreciated. Will need to agree to give me copyright to resulting audio/video or licence under CC by-nc-sa or similar; will of course give credit and link as you prefer.
3. Goalball (time TBD, dependent on signups/volunteers)
* setup & teardown
: Help set up the field — measure lines, lay down rope/cable/tape (as tactile markers), arrange crates of empty Mate bottles as goal / sides backstops, etc. See [https://goalball.sport/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/948-General-Goalball-Court-Layout-2019.pdf official goalball court layout guide].
* referees & assistants
: Read the [https://goalball.sport/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/IBSA-Goalball-Rules-and-Regulations-2022-2024-v1.1-4-Feb-22.docx-Summary-Change-document.pdf official rules]; call goals and points; get new players briefed, blindfolded, and oriented; keep time; catch and return balls that go out of bounds or hit goal; lead players on/off field; etc. No experience required, and we're not being formal, so most of the rules are relaxed. Can also participate (and recommended to do so); needn't be on for the full time.

== Sense without sight / blind navigation ==

I'm giving the Sense Without Sight / blind navigation [https://www.emfcamp.org/schedule/2022/8-sense-without-sight talk] & [https://www.emfcamp.org/schedule/2022/152-sense-without-sight-hands-on-workshop workshops].

I'd appreciate if you fill out the "for Science" section of the [https://s.ai/emf/ws sign up / pre-talk form] before going to my talk, and the [https://s.ai/emf/fb feedback form] afterwards.

=== Workshop ===

Take a walk with me through camp — blindfolded, with one of my guide canes — and sense the world like I do: using air currents, heat, sound, echolocation, ground texture, wind shadow, and more. It's a unique, permanent sensory upgrade you can still use when sighted.

Workshops are every day at 9pm (sunset), possibly other times (depending on light levels and my stamina & voice), and by special arrangement, and last ~1–1.5 hours. They start at my tent, near the Hardware Hacking Area. It might be marked with a [https://conlang.org/conlang-flag/ conlang flag].

I can handle 4 student participants, 4 assistants, & 5 observers per workshop.

Details & signup form available soon at https://s.ai/emf

1. Mandatory for all students & assistants:
* [https://s.ai/emf/ws Sign up] beforehand and [https://s.ai/emf/fb provide feedback] afterwards.
* Watch my talk first, preferably in person (but there's video also). You'll learn much more if we can focus on what I can't show in the talk.
* Have a negative COVID test in last 48h. LFTs will be available at the medical tent at your convenience for a minimal fee.
* Be totally sober.
* Pee & wash your hands first.
* Reserve at least 1 full hour, preferably 1.5. Doing a "shortened" version does not work well (I've tried); it is very fast-paced as is.
* Age 15+. If you're a minor, bring a responsible adult to act as your assistant (who's also signed up).
* Contact me in advance about any disability or other situation affecting your senses, mobility, stability, concentration, or sensory overload. I can accommodate most disabilities (and FWIW one of my best students ever used a manual wheelchair). Some may require special arrangements (e.g. slightly different paths for wheelchair users; hearing interpreter for deaf people; 1-on-1 for both), but most are just things I need to be aware of, and can fit in the regular workshop.
2. Strongly encouraged:
* Fill out the "for Science" section of signup & feedback forms.
* Find & bring someone to act as your assistant, preferably someone who's done my workshop before (and have them sign up); ask around camp or Twitter @EMFCamp #BlindNavigation. I'll try to arrange for assistants if you don't bring one.
* Have head uncovered, wear short sleeves, and thin shoes.
* Bring a full-coverage blindfold / sleep mask. I'll have a bunch of extras, but I can't re-sterilise them during camp.
* Act as an assistant after having done the workshop as participant. You'll learn a lot more than just the first time, and help others like someone else helped you.

==== Student participants ====

My goal with this workshop is for you to have an experience that is as close as possible to an accurate taste of what being blind is really like — including the sensory input, orientation, identification, path-finding, etc. that I use every day. In fact, it's based directly on how I was taught myself, by a blind friend, over course of a few days — just greatly condensed and without most of the practical skills that you'd need to actually navigate on your own. One hour is not enough to teach you to get around without my help — but it is enough to teach you how to use senses you've probably never noticed before.

The workshop is fast-paced but very carefully incremental, along paths I've personally checked first. We start with literally just walking back and forth in a totally clear area; by the end, you'll have been able to do a lot more than you probably expect — including sensing and navigating the tents, guylines, roots, branches, ditches, crates of Mate, rough dirt, grass, gravel, people, robots, etc. that are throughout camp.

I want you to come out of the workshop with a feeling of empowerment and newly broadened senses, not fear or pity. It is normal to feel anxious due to disorientation in the first few minutes. Just pay attention to the things I point out; I promise that this changes once you understand different ways of orienting yourself. This is why I do not do "short" workshops — it takes time for you to acclimatise to a totally different way of perceiving the world, and one hour is about the minimum in which I can reliably bring people over that initial hump.

Everyone varies on what's easier for them to sense (e.g. echolocation, air pressure, heat, etc). Most people can perceive at least a bit of everything I show (though not 100%). For some things (like doorways & wall corners), almost everyone I've taught has minimal confidence that they even feel it at all — yet when I have them test it, they get it right anyway. A lot of these sensations are subtle. That's fine. Practice noticing the same things in the days and years after and you'll discover it becomes a lot more obvious and intuitive over time.

Although most people expect it to be an experience of sensory deprivation, blindness is actually an experience of sensory over-stimulation. If you start to feel overwhelmed, just tell me and I'll provide ways to lower the intensity.

It's normal to perceive a subtle stimulus as a sensory experience, but be confused about how to identify or interpret it. It'll probably require conscious processing to puzzle out. For most people (including me!), it requires years of experience before having the subjective shift from "I can tell there's a some sort of difference in the sound quality on my left vs my right" to "I hear a plastic wall at my 4 o'clock" (though some of my students have gotten this within an hour). That's fine; the idea is for you to get a realistic taste of the sensory experience, not to be able to navigate on your own. I'll help guide you to notice more than you did at first and think it through, and help you interpret things that simply require more experience.

I ''will'' let you walk into lots of different things (with your cane) without telling you first, if I'm confident that you can handle them and they're not actually dangerous. Allowing you to explore for yourself — and guiding you to notice and interpret stimuli you missed the first time — is a critical part of what makes this work. Walking into things is one of the primary orientation strategies, not a problem, and it's one of the primary purposes of a guide cane; if you watch me walking around camp, you'll notice that I do so all the time.

Caning out of sync or with a bad sweep range, or walking with abnormal gait, are pretty much the only parts that are a safety issue. You can't ingrain cane skills well enough in just an hour to be fully consistent, which is why correcting this is nearly the only way I will have assistants interrupt you, and why I spend the first several minutes just having you walk normally on a simple, straight path. It's also why I require that you be totally sober. So far, of ~130–150 students I've taught to date, only one has had any injury — a mild bruise due to caning out of sync that wasn't caught by their assistant (and I've revised things to help correct for that). However, nobody's perfect, and EMF is in a somewhat chaotic field. It's possible you might trip, walk into something in a way that's not intentional, or the like — which is why the signup form includes a liability waiver saying you won't sue me or EMF if you get hurt.

Bottom line: I can guarantee that you'll leave having learnt to perceive the world in ways that you never noticed before, and you won't get this kind of training from anyone else (unless you become blind yourself). And if you practice, you'll have permanently expanded senses, not just an abstract understanding. Ask anyone who's done my workshop before, or check out the (approved-to-be-public) [https://s.ai/emf/fbr feedback I've gotten so far] — and please post your own comments on it publicly if you feel comfortable doing so.

==== Assistants ====

Assistants follow one student around for the entire workshop. I'll explain it at the outset and be supervising & teaching throughout; I just can't fully monitor 4 students on my own. Generally the job is to not interfere at all — but to monitor and correct a couple safety issues, help lead students to stimuli they may've missed, and keep everyone close enough together so I don't wear out my voice. I strongly encourage assistants to have first been a student, and students to act as an assistant for someone else in a subsequent session; both people will learn a lot more.

==== Observers ====

Observers are welcome to tag along for all or part of any workshop. You can ask questions when I'm not attending to a student. Feel free to sit or stand in the way or otherwise behave as usual; humans are part of obstacles found in the normal environment and part of what I teach. Just don't do anything to my students that I'd want you to not do to me (see below). If there're more than 5 observers currently present, just come back another time (or sign up to participate yourself).

== Goalball ==

I may be co-running games of [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxxGf82as4Q goalball], TBD on volunteers.

== Meditation workshop ==

I'm also running a [https://www.emfcamp.org/schedule/2022/151-meditation-for-hackers meditation workshop].

No signup etc required.

= Blind stuff =

== You can see me, but I can't see you ==

I should be very easy to recognize, 'cause I should be the only person at EMF who has both a long white/red guide cane and a white/black/red walking cane.

I am light-blind — fully sighted in sufficiently dim environments, fully blind (or in significant pain) in sufficiently bright ones. I use a screen reader, braille, etc., when I'm outside or over pain tolerance, and (usually) usual sighted stuff when I'm not.

Unless there is no light source in my field of view, I probably can't see you. I might not know you're there even if you're looking at me, and may not realize that you're talking to me if you say something in my general direction unless you use my name. So, please talk.

== Socialising ==

My blindness limits my ability to add myself to conversations, discover neat people & things, etc — but I ''do'' like talking, making friends, learning and making new things, playing with robots, good board games (like Go), etc. just like any other hacker. So if you see me, please come up and introduce yourself, invite me to something, let me know about cool stuff in the area, or the like. Please say my name (Sai) so I know you're addressing me.

[https://s.ai My website] should give you a reasonable spread of potential topics of mutual interest. I'm always love to learn what I don't know I don't know, so if there's something that ''you'' think is interesting, please bring it up.

One exception: let's please talk about something ''other'' than blindness, unless it's in the context of my talk or workshops, or if you have related feedback or proposals. I don't want to be "token blind person", and the Q&As from my talk & workshops will probably saturate my tolerance for that particular topic.

I generally like hugs, skritches, etc., but always ''ask first''. If you like such things too, please tell me explicitly, 'cause I'm probably not able to pick up on your body language cues.

For longer interactions, I would be more comfortable if I am in a darker environment (with no lights in my field of view) and sitting down.

Although I can use my phone while blind, it's fairly tedious and requires attention — I can't easily walk and read at the same time (let alone write). Expect me to check email, Twitter, etc. during camp only when I wake up and go to sleep, not during the day. If there's something that needs a same-day response, please call (DECT 4724) or tell me in person.

== Blind courtesy tips ==

You do ''not'' need to get out of my way or the like when I'm walking around — and I prefer you don't. I can navigate around you just fine.

If you cough, talk, scuff your feet, or the like, it'll help me know you're there and walk around you. If you freeze up, I'll probably hit you in the foot with my guide cane. That doesn't bother me, and it doesn't hurt, but it might startle you. If I'm queuing behind you, I'll probably maintain gentle contact on your heel with my cane so I know when to move.

I can deal with almost all obstacles by myself, and walking into things is a feature, not a bug. However, please do tell me about:
* fragile or spillable objects at ground level that'd be damaged by being stepped on or hit with a cane (e.g. robots, non-empty bottles, silent toddlers); and
* objects with substantial projections above hip level, since I can miss them with my cane and faceplant (e.g. convex sculptures, guy lines, signs on posts, lorries with high undercarriage, tree branches).

Just address me saying what and where it is (e.g. "hey Sai, there's a signpost at your 2 o'clock") — not instructions (e.g. "go left").

If I'm asking directions, I strongly prefer a verbal description, or (with my consent) a map drawn on my back (where up means the direction I'm facing). If you're pointing out a specific nearby object for me to interact with (e.g. table, chair), just tap it a couple times with your hand so I can orient precisely. If I'm following you, I will probably do so by sound (just keep talking or scuff your feet); if I'm having sensory overload, I might ask to follow you by holding onto your arm / elbow, but that's rare.

Please do ''not'':
* cut across me in front (you'll trip and tangle my cane)
* grab me or my cane, or move any of my things, without my express consent
** ... unless I'm about to actually hurt myself or someone else
* move things in my environment without telling me (it fucks with my object permanence)
* walk away without telling me (I'll end up talking to the air until I notice)
* expect me to notice visual cues (e.g. pointing) — I can detect some of these, but it takes effort, and my attention will be overburdened already

User:Saizai

2022-05-24T16:02:38Z

Saizai: fix workshop time, editing issues, reflow, add details

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|Village=Village:Hardware Hacking Area
|Bringing=blind stuff (canes, braille labeller, frame & stylus, etc)
|Arrival=2022-06-02T14:00:00.000Z
|Departure=2022-06-06T12:00:00.000Z
|Website=https://s.ai
|Contact=DECT 4724 (4-SAI)
|Email=emf@saizai.com
|IRC=saizai
|Twitter=saizai
|Facebook=saizai
|Pronouns=🇺🇸🇬🇧 they/you, 🇷🇺 они/вы, 🇫🇷 iel/vous, 🇪🇸 elle/Ud., 🇯🇵 あの人/貴方, 🇨🇳 他/您
|Access=blind
}}

Hi, I'm Sai (I'm mononymous); my handle is saizai pretty much everywhere. I'm a hacker (with main interests in neuroscience, conlangs, law, & AI), non-binary/agender, and light-blind.

I speak English, Russian, American Sign Language, French, & Spanish to at least conversational fluency, plus marginal Japanese, minimal Chinese, and barely-existent Arabic. N.b. I don't know British Sign Language (except the alphabet), and ASL/BSL aren't mutually intelligible.

= Talk, workshops, & goalball ==

Signup form under revision, should be available soon.

== Volunteers needed ==

I will need volunteers who can help. If possible, we should meet up on Thursday (day 0 after ~4pm) to practice, discuss any issues, prep, etc.

See https://s.ai/emf (soon) for links, and [https://s.ai/contact contact me] if you can help.

1. Sense Without Sight talk
* On stage (must consent to be recorded)
** aikido uke (1-2 people)
:: Have the martial arts skills to safely attack me with grabs & hand strikes, and take wrist/joint locks, takedown, etc. You don't need to have aikido experience specifically (I do); judo, hapkido, jiujitsu (standing techniques), or similar background should work also. We will need to practice with each other beforehand so we're both comfortable. No kicks, highfalls/breakfalls, or rolls, due to limited space on stage.
** "Goofus" and "Gallant" (1 person each; can double as uke)
:: Play the part of asshole (Goofus) or helpful person (Gallant), in specific, scripted ways. Involves light physical contact, e.g. grabbing/being grabbed by the arm, leading/being led by touch, touching neck/cheek for heat-gradient demo. For Gallant, also involves briefly being blindfolded and led around stage by me, helping get my canes, etc.
** Slides helper (1 person)
:: Change my slides as needed. Ring a little bell to tell me when my timing says I should be moving to the next segment. Possibly remind me if I forget something I meant to do (you'll have my outline).
* Off stage (needn't consent to being recorded, but preferable)
** Audience sensory assistants (2-4 people)
:: Move through the audience aisles to make sound, make air currents, or carry a hidden scented item (e.g. holding coffee, scratching an orange, etc; whatever's available). Helpful if you have a scooter, skateboard, bike, hoverboard, or the like, but not required.
:: Make a sharp clap in different parts of the tent
2. Sense Without Sight / blind navigation Workshops
* assistants (paired 1-on-1 with each student participant); see below for details
: Negative COVID test and signup required. Preferable (but not required) if you've been a student participant before yourself or are student participant's friend/partner/parent/sibling.
* videographer (1-2 people, 1 time)
: Follow along one of my workshops and take video of me, students, etc. for posting to YouTube etc. I'll bring a couple cheap GoPro-style cameras; if you can bring better cameras, or wireless mics (esp. binaural, directional mics), that'd be appreciated. Will need to agree to give me copyright to resulting audio/video or licence under CC by-nc-sa or similar; will of course give credit and link as you prefer.
3. Goalball (time TBD, dependent on signups/volunteers)
* setup & teardown
: Help set up the field — measure lines, lay down rope/cable/tape (as tactile markers), arrange crates of empty Mate bottles as goal / sides backstops, etc. See [https://goalball.sport/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/948-General-Goalball-Court-Layout-2019.pdf official goalball court layout guide].
* referees & assistants
: Read the [https://goalball.sport/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/IBSA-Goalball-Rules-and-Regulations-2022-2024-v1.1-4-Feb-22.docx-Summary-Change-document.pdf official rules]; call goals and points; get new players briefed, blindfolded, and oriented; keep time; catch and return balls that go out of bounds or hit goal; lead players on/off field; etc. No experience required, and we're not being formal, so most of the rules are relaxed. Can also participate (and recommended to do so); needn't be on for the full time.

== Sense without sight / blind navigation ==

I'm giving the Sense Without Sight / blind navigation [https://www.emfcamp.org/schedule/2022/8-sense-without-sight talk] & [https://www.emfcamp.org/schedule/2022/152-sense-without-sight-hands-on-workshop workshops].

I'd appreciate if you fill out the "for Science" section of the [https://s.ai/emf/ws sign up / pre-talk form] before going to my talk, and the [https://s.ai/emf/fb feedback form] afterwards.

=== Workshop ===

Take a walk with me through camp — blindfolded, with one of my guide canes — and sense the world like I do: using air currents, heat, sound, echolocation, ground texture, wind shadow, and more. It's a unique, permanent sensory upgrade you can still use when sighted.

Workshops are every day at 9pm (sunset), possibly other times (depending on light levels and my stamina & voice), and by special arrangement, and last ~1–1.5 hours. They start at my tent, near the Hardware Hacking Area. It might be marked with a [https://conlang.org/conlang-flag/ conlang flag].

I can handle 4 student participants, 4 assistants, & 5 observers per workshop.

Details & signup form available soon at https://s.ai/emf

1. Mandatory for all students & assistants:
* [https://s.ai/emf/ws Sign up] beforehand and [https://s.ai/emf/fb provide feedback] afterwards.
* Watch my talk first, preferably in person (but there's video also). You'll learn much more if we can focus on what I can't show in the talk.
* Have a negative COVID test in last 48h. LFTs will be available at the medical tent at your convenience for a minimal fee.
* Be totally sober.
* Pee & wash your hands first.
* Reserve at least 1 full hour, preferably 1.5. Doing a "shortened" version does not work well (I've tried); it is very fast-paced as is.
* Age 15+. If you're a minor, bring a responsible adult to act as your assistant (who's also signed up).
* Contact me in advance about any disability or other situation affecting your senses, mobility, stability, concentration, or sensory overload. I can accommodate most disabilities (and FWIW one of my best students ever used a manual wheelchair). Some may require special arrangements (e.g. slightly different paths for wheelchair users; hearing interpreter for deaf people; 1-on-1 for both), but most are just things I need to be aware of, and can fit in the regular workshop.
2. Strongly encouraged:
* Fill out the "for Science" section of signup & feedback forms.
* Find & bring someone to act as your assistant, preferably someone who's done my workshop before (and have them sign up); ask around camp or Twitter @EMFCamp #BlindNavigation. I'll try to arrange for assistants if you don't bring one.
* Have head uncovered, wear short sleeves, and thin shoes.
* Bring a full-coverage blindfold / sleep mask. I'll have a bunch of extras, but I can't re-sterilise them during camp.
* Act as an assistant after having done the workshop as participant. You'll learn a lot more than just the first time, and help others like someone else helped you.

==== Student participants ====

My goal with this workshop is for you to have an experience that is as close as possible to an accurate taste of what being blind is really like — including the sensory input, orientation, identification, path-finding, etc. that I use every day. In fact, it's based directly on how I was taught myself, by a blind friend, over course of a few days — just greatly condensed and without most of the practical skills that you'd need to actually navigate on your own. One hour is not enough to teach you to get around without my help — but it is enough to teach you how to use senses you've probably never noticed before.

The workshop is fast-paced but very carefully incremental, along paths I've personally checked first. We start with literally just walking back and forth in a totally clear area; by the end, you'll have been able to do a lot more than you probably expect — including sensing and navigating the tents, guylines, roots, branches, ditches, crates of Mate, rough dirt, grass, gravel, people, robots, etc. that are throughout camp.

I want you to come out of the workshop with a feeling of empowerment and newly broadened senses, not fear or pity. It is normal to feel anxious due to disorientation in the first few minutes. Just pay attention to the things I point out; I promise that this changes once you understand different ways of orienting yourself. This is why I do not do "short" workshops — it takes time for you to acclimatise to a totally different way of perceiving the world, and one hour is about the minimum in which I can reliably bring people over that initial hump.

Everyone varies on what's easier for them to sense (e.g. echolocation, air pressure, heat, etc). Most people can perceive at least a bit of everything I show (though not 100%). For some things (like doorways & wall corners), almost everyone I've taught has minimal confidence that they even feel it at all — yet when I have them test it, they get it right anyway. A lot of these sensations are subtle. That's fine. Practice noticing the same things in the days and years after and you'll discover it becomes a lot more obvious and intuitive over time.

Although most people expect it to be an experience of sensory deprivation, blindness is actually an experience of sensory over-stimulation. If you start to feel overwhelmed, just tell me and I'll provide ways to lower the intensity.

It's normal to perceive a subtle stimulus as a sensory experience, but be confused about how to identify or interpret it. It'll probably require conscious processing to puzzle out. For most people (including me!), it requires years of experience before having the subjective shift from "I can tell there's a some sort of difference in the sound quality on my left vs my right" to "I hear a plastic wall at my 4 o'clock" (though some of my students have gotten this within an hour). That's fine; the idea is for you to get a realistic taste of the sensory experience, not to be able to navigate on your own. I'll help guide you to notice more than you did at first and think it through, and help you interpret things that simply require more experience.

I ''will'' let you walk into lots of different things (with your cane) without telling you first, if I'm confident that you can handle them and they're not actually dangerous. Allowing you to explore for yourself — and guiding you to notice and interpret stimuli you missed the first time — is a critical part of what makes this work. Walking into things is one of the primary orientation strategies, not a problem, and it's one of the primary purposes of a guide cane; if you watch me walking around camp, you'll notice that I do so all the time.

Caning out of sync or with a bad sweep range, or walking with abnormal gait, are pretty much the only parts that are a safety issue. You can't ingrain cane skills well enough in just an hour to be fully consistent, which is why correcting this is nearly the only way I will have assistants interrupt you, and why I spend the first several minutes just having you walk normally on a simple, straight path. It's also why I require that you be totally sober. So far, of ~130–150 students I've taught to date, only one has had any injury — a mild bruise due to caning out of sync that wasn't caught by their assistant (and I've revised things to help correct for that). However, nobody's perfect, and EMF is in a somewhat chaotic field. It's possible you might trip, walk into something in a way that's not intentional, or the like — which is why the signup form includes a liability waiver saying you won't sue me or EMF if you get hurt.

Bottom line: I can guarantee that you'll leave having learnt to perceive the world in ways that you never noticed before, and you won't get this kind of training from anyone else (unless you become blind yourself). And if you practice, you'll have permanently expanded senses, not just an abstract understanding. Ask anyone who's done my workshop before, or check out the (approved-to-be-public) [https://s.ai/emf/fbr feedback I've gotten so far] — and please post your own comments on it publicly if you feel comfortable doing so.

==== Assistants ====

Assistants follow one student around for the entire workshop. I'll explain it at the outset and be supervising & teaching throughout; I just can't fully monitor 4 students on my own. Generally the job is to not interfere at all — but to monitor and correct a couple safety issues, help lead students to stimuli they may've missed, and keep everyone close enough together so I don't wear out my voice. I strongly encourage assistants to have first been a student, and students to act as an assistant for someone else in a subsequent session; both people will learn a lot more.

==== Observers ====

Observers are welcome to tag along for all or part of any workshop. You can ask questions when I'm not attending to a student. Feel free to sit or stand in the way or otherwise behave as usual; humans are part of obstacles found in the normal environment and part of what I teach. Just don't do anything to my students that I'd want you to not do to me (see below). If there're more than 5 observers currently present, just come back another time (or sign up to participate yourself).

== Goalball ==

I may be co-running games of [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxxGf82as4Q goalball], TBD on volunteers.

== Meditation workshop ==

I'm also running a [https://www.emfcamp.org/schedule/2022/151-meditation-for-hackers meditation workshop].

No signup etc required.

= Blind stuff =

== You can see me, but I can't see you ==

I should be very easy to recognize, 'cause I should be the only person at EMF who has both a long white/red guide cane and a white/black/red walking cane.

I am light-blind — fully sighted in sufficiently dim environments, fully blind (or in significant pain) in sufficiently bright ones. I use a screen reader, braille, etc., when I'm outside or over pain tolerance, and (usually) usual sighted stuff when I'm not.

Unless there is no light source in my field of view, I probably can't see you. I might not know you're there even if you're looking at me, and may not realize that you're talking to me if you say something in my general direction unless you use my name. So, please talk.

== Socialising ==

My blindness limits my ability to add myself to conversations, discover neat people & things, etc — but I ''do'' like talking, making friends, learning and making new things, playing with robots, good board games (like Go), etc. just like any other hacker. So if you see me, please come up and introduce yourself, invite me to something, let me know about cool stuff in the area, or the like. Please say my name (Sai) so I know you're addressing me.

[https://s.ai My website] should give you a reasonable spread of potential topics of mutual interest. I'm always love to learn what I don't know I don't know, so if there's something that ''you'' think is interesting, please bring it up.

One exception: let's please talk about something ''other'' than blindness, unless it's in the context of my talk or workshops, or if you have related feedback or proposals. I don't want to be "token blind person", and the Q&As from my talk & workshops will probably saturate my tolerance for that particular topic.

I generally like hugs, skritches, etc., but always ''ask first''. If you like such things too, please tell me explicitly, 'cause I'm probably not able to pick up on your body language cues.

For longer interactions, I would be more comfortable if I am in a darker environment (with no lights in my field of view) and sitting down.

Although I can use my phone while blind, it's fairly tedious and requires attention — I can't easily walk and read at the same time (let alone write). Expect me to check email, Twitter, etc. during camp only when I wake up and go to sleep, not during the day. If there's something that needs a same-day response, please call (DECT 4724) or tell me in person.

== Blind courtesy tips ==

You do ''not'' need to get out of my way or the like when I'm walking around — and I prefer you don't. I can navigate around you just fine.

If you cough, talk, scuff your feet, or the like, it'll help me know you're there and walk around you. If you freeze up, I'll probably hit you in the foot with my guide cane. That doesn't bother me, and it doesn't hurt, but it might startle you. If I'm queuing behind you, I'll probably maintain gentle contact on your heel with my cane so I know when to move.

I can deal with almost all obstacles by myself, and walking into things is a feature, not a bug. However, please do tell me about:
* fragile or spillable objects at ground level that'd be damaged by being stepped on or hit with a cane (e.g. robots, non-empty bottles, silent toddlers); and
* objects with substantial projections above hip level, since I can miss them with my cane and faceplant (e.g. convex sculptures, guy lines, signs on posts, lorries with high undercarriage, tree branches).

Just address me saying what and where it is (e.g. "hey Sai, there's a signpost at your 2 o'clock") — not instructions (e.g. "go left").

If I'm asking directions, I strongly prefer a verbal description, or (with my consent) a map drawn on my back (where up means the direction I'm facing). If you're pointing out a specific nearby object for me to interact with (e.g. table, chair), just tap it a couple times with your hand so I can orient precisely. If I'm following you, I will probably do so by sound (just keep talking or scuff your feet); if I'm having sensory overload, I might ask to follow you by holding onto your arm / elbow, but that's rare.

Please do ''not'':
* cut across me in front (you'll trip and tangle my cane)
* grab me or my cane, or move any of my things, without my express consent
** ... unless I'm about to actually hurt myself or someone else
* move things in my environment without telling me (it fucks with my object permanence)
* walk away without telling me (I'll end up talking to the air until I notice)
* expect me to notice visual cues (e.g. pointing) — I can detect some of these, but it takes effort, and my attention will be overburdened already

User:Saizai

2022-05-21T23:16:20Z

Saizai: 貴方

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Hi, I'm Sai (I'm mononymous); my handle is saizai pretty much everywhere; I'm non-binary/agender (so gender neutral pronouns etc).

I speak English, Russian, American Sign Language, French, & Spanish to at least conversational fluency, plus marginal Japanese, minimal Chinese, and barely-existent Arabic. N.b. I don't know British Sign Language (except the alphabet), and ASL/BSL aren't mutually intelligible.

== Talk, workshops, & goalball ==

I'm giving the Sense Without Sight / blind navigation [https://www.emfcamp.org/schedule/2022/8-sense-without-sight talk] & [https://www.emfcamp.org/schedule/2022/152-sense-without-sight-hands-on-workshop workshops]. I'm also running a [https://www.emfcamp.org/schedule/2022/151-meditation-for-hackers meditation workshop]. I may be co-running games of [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxxGf82as4Q goalball], TBD on volunteers.

I'd appreciate if you fill out the "for Science" section of the [https://s.ai/emf/ws sign up / pre-talk form] before going to my talk, and the [https://s.ai/emf/fb feedback form] afterwards.

=== Workshop ===

Take a walk with me through camp — blindfolded, with one of my guide canes — and sense the world like I do: using air currents, heat, sound, echolocation, ground texture, wind shadow, and more. It's a unique, permanent sensory upgrade you can still use when sighted.

Workshops are every day at 7pm (1 hour after sunset), possibly at ~8:30pm (depending on my stamina & voice), and by special arrangement, and last ~1–1.5 hours. They start at my tent, near the Hardware Hacking Area. It might be marked with a [https://conlang.org/conlang-flag/ conlang flag].

I can handle 4 student participants + 4 assistants per workshop, plus up to 5 observers.

Assistants follow one student around for the entire workshop. I'll explain it at the outset and be supervising & teaching throughout; I just can't fully monitor 4 students on my own. Generally the job is to not interfere at all — but to monitor and correct a couple safety issues, help lead students to stimuli they may've missed, and keep everyone close enough together so I don't wear out my voice. I strongly encourage assistants to have first been a student, and students to act as an assistant for someone else in a subsequent session; both people will learn a lot more.

Observers are welcome to tag along for all or part of any workshop. You can ask questions when I'm not attending to a student. Feel free to sit or stand in the way or otherwise behave as usual; humans are part of obstacles found in the normal environment and part of what I teach. Just don't do anything to my students that I'd want you to not do to me (see below). If there're more than 5 observers currently present, just come back another time (or sign up to participate yourself).

1. Mandatory for all students & assistants:
* [https://s.ai/emf/ws Sign up] beforehand and [https://s.ai/emf/fb provide feedback] afterwards.
* Watch my talk first, preferably in person (but there's video also). You'll learn much more if we can focus on what I can't show in the talk.
* Have a negative COVID test in last 48h. LFTs will be available at the medical tent at your convenience for a minimal fee.
* Be totally sober.
* Pee & wash your hands first.
* Reserve at least 1 full hour, preferably 1.5. Doing a "shortened" version does not work well (I've tried); it is very fast-paced as is.
* Age 15+. If you're a minor, bring a responsible adult to act as your assistant (who's also signed up).
* Contact me in advance about any disability or other situation affecting your senses, mobility, stability, concentration, or sensory overload. I can accommodate most disabilities (and FWIW one of my best students ever used a manual wheelchair). Some may require special arrangements (e.g. slightly different paths for wheelchair users; hearing interpreter for deaf people; 1-on-1 for both), but most are just things I need to be aware of, and can fit in the regular workshop.
2. Strongly encouraged:
* Fill out the "for Science" section of signup & feedback forms.
* Find & bring someone to act as your assistant, preferably someone who's done my workshop before (and have them sign up); ask around camp or Twitter @EMFCamp #BlindNavigation. I'll try to arrange for assistants if you don't bring one.
* Have head uncovered, wear short sleeves, and thin shoes.
* Bring a full-coverage blindfold / sleep mask. I'll have a bunch of extras, but I can't re-sterilise them during camp.
* Act as an assistant after having done the workshop as participant. You'll learn a lot more than just the first time, and help others like someone else helped you.

My goal with this workshop is for you to have an experience that is as close as possible to an accurate taste of what being blind is really like — including the sensory input, orientation, identification, path-finding, etc. that I use every day. In fact, it's based directly on how I was taught myself, by a blind friend, over course of a few days — just greatly condensed and without most of the practical skills that you'd need to actually navigate on your own. One hour is not enough to teach you to get around without my help — but it is enough to teach you how to use senses you've probably never noticed before.

The workshop is fast-paced but very carefully incremental, along paths I've personally checked first. We start with literally just walking back and forth in a totally clear area; by the end, you'll have been able to do a lot more than you probably expect — including sensing and navigating the tents, guylines, roots, branches, ditches, crates of Mate, rough dirt, grass, gravel, people, robots, etc. that are throughout camp.

I want you to come out of the workshop with a feeling of empowerment and newly broadened senses, not fear or pity. It is normal to feel anxious due to disorientation in the first few minutes. Just pay attention to the things I point out; I promise that this changes once you understand different ways of orienting yourself. This is why I do not do "short" workshops — it takes time for you to acclimatise to a totally different way of perceiving the world, and one hour is about the minimum in which I can reliably bring people over that initial hump.

Everyone varies on what's easier for them to sense (e.g. echolocation, air pressure, heat, etc). Most people can perceive at least a bit of everything I show (though not 100%). For some things (like doorways & wall corners), almost everyone I've taught has minimal confidence that they even feel it at all — yet when I have them test it, they get it right anyway. A lot of these sensations are subtle. That's fine. Practice noticing the same things in the days and years after and you'll discover it becomes a lot more obvious and intuitive over time.

Although most people expect it to be an experience of sensory deprivation, blindness is actually an experience of sensory over-stimulation. If you start to feel overwhelmed, just tell me and I'll provide ways to lower the intensity.

It's normal to perceive a subtle stimulus as a sensory experience, but be confused about how to identify or interpret it. It'll probably require conscious processing to puzzle out. For most people (including me!), it requires years of experience before having the subjective shift from "I can tell there's a some sort of difference in the sound quality on my left vs my right" to "I hear a plastic wall at my 4 o'clock" (though some of my students have gotten this within an hour). That's fine; the idea is for you to get a realistic taste of the sensory experience, not to be able to navigate on your own. I'll help guide you to notice more than you did at first and think it through, and help you interpret things that simply require more experience.

I ''will'' let you walk into lots of different things (with your cane) without telling you first, if I'm confident that you can handle them and they're not actually dangerous. Allowing you to explore for yourself — and guiding you to notice and interpret stimuli you missed the first time — is a critical part of what makes this work. Walking into things is one of the primary orientation strategies, not a problem, and it's one of the primary purposes of a guide cane; if you watch me walking around camp, you'll notice that I do so all the time.

Caning out of sync or with a bad sweep range, or walking with abnormal gait, are pretty much the only parts that are a safety issue. You can't ingrain cane skills well enough in just an hour to be fully consistent, which is why correcting this is nearly the only way I will have assistants interrupt you, and why I spend the first several minutes just having you walk normally on a simple, straight path. It's also why I require that you be totally sober. So far, of ~130–150 students I've taught to date, only one has had any injury — a mild bruise due to caning out of sync that wasn't caught by their assistant (and I've revised things to help correct for that). However, nobody's perfect, and EMF is in a somewhat chaotic field. It's possible you might trip, walk into something in a way that's not intentional, or the like — which is why the signup form includes a liability waiver saying you won't sue me or EMF if you get hurt.

Bottom line: I can guarantee that you'll leave having learnt to perceive the world in ways that you never noticed before, and you won't get this kind of training from anyone else (unless you become blind yourself). And if you practice, you'll have permanently expanded senses, not just an abstract understanding. Ask anyone who's done my workshop before, or check out the (approved-to-be-public) [https://s.ai/emf/fbr feedback I've gotten so far] — and please post your own comments on it publicly if you feel comfortable doing so.

== Volunteers needed ==

I will need volunteers who can help:
* be my uke during the talk (i.e. safely take wrist/joint locks, takedown, etc; aikido, judo, or similar martial arts experience required)
* move through the talk audience with some special props (scooter would help but not required)
* set up & referee goalball (no experience required)
* make video of one of my workshops

See https://s.ai/emf for links to all of the above, and [https://s.ai/contact contact me] if you can help.

= Blind stuff =

== You can see me, but I can't see you ==

I should be very easy to recognize, 'cause I should be the only person at EMF who has both a long white/red guide cane and a white/black/red walking cane.

I am light-blind — fully sighted in sufficiently dim environments, fully blind (or in significant pain) in sufficiently bright ones. I use a screen reader, braille, etc., when I'm outside or over pain tolerance, and (usually) usual sighted stuff when I'm not.

Unless there is no light source in my field of view, I probably can't see you. I might not know you're there even if you're looking at me, and may not realize that you're talking to me if you say something in my general direction unless you use my name. So, please talk.

== Socialising ==

My blindness limits my ability to add myself to conversations, discover neat people & things, etc — but I ''do'' like talking, making friends, learning and making new things, playing with robots, good board games (like Go), etc. just like any other hacker. So if you see me, please come up and introduce yourself, invite me to something, let me know about cool stuff in the area, or the like. Please say my name (Sai) so I know you're addressing me.

[https://s.ai My website] should give you a reasonable spread of potential topics of mutual interest. I'm always love to learn what I don't know I don't know, so if there's something that ''you'' think is interesting, please bring it up.

One exception: let's please talk about something ''other'' than blindness, unless it's in the context of my talk or workshops, or if you have related feedback or proposals. I don't want to be "token blind person", and the Q&As from my talk & workshops will probably saturate my tolerance for that particular topic.

I generally like hugs, skritches, etc., but always ''ask first''. If you like such things too, please tell me explicitly, 'cause I'm probably not able to pick up on your body language cues.

For longer interactions, I would be more comfortable if I am in a darker environment (with no lights in my field of view) and sitting down.

Although I can use my phone while blind, it's fairly tedious and requires attention — I can't easily walk and read at the same time (let alone write). Expect me to check email, Twitter, etc. during camp only when I wake up and go to sleep, not during the day. If there's something that needs a same-day response, please call or tell me in person.

== Blind courtesy tips ==

You do ''not'' need to get out of my way or the like when I'm walking around — and I prefer you don't. I can navigate around you just fine.

If you cough, talk, scuff your feet, or the like, it'll help me know you're there and walk around you. If you freeze up, I'll probably hit you in the foot with my guide cane. That doesn't bother me, and it doesn't hurt, but it might startle you. If I'm queuing behind you, I'll probably maintain gentle contact on your heel with my cane so I know when to move.

I can deal with almost all obstacles by myself, and walking into things is a feature, not a bug. However, please do tell me about:
* fragile or spillable objects at ground level that'd be damaged by being stepped on or hit with a cane (e.g. robots, non-empty bottles, silent toddlers); and
* objects with substantial projections above hip level, since I can miss them with my face before my cane (e.g. convex sculptures, guy lines, signs on posts, lorries with high undercarriage, tree branches).

Just address me saying what and where it is (e.g. "hey Sai, there's a signpost at your 2 o'clock") — not instructions (e.g. "go left").

If I'm asking directions, I strongly prefer a verbal description, or (with my consent) a map drawn on my back (where up means the direction I'm facing). If you're pointing out a specific nearby object for me to interact with (e.g. table, chair), just tap it a couple times with your hand so I can orient precisely. If I'm following you, I will probably do so by sound (just keep talking or scuff your feet); if I'm having sensory overload, I might ask to follow you by holding onto your arm / elbow, but that's rare.

Please do ''not'':
* cut across me in front (you'll trip and tangle my cane)
* grab me or my cane, or move any of my things, without my express consent
** ... unless I'm about to actually hurt myself or someone else
* move things in my environment without telling me (it fucks with my object permanence)
* walk away without telling me (I'll end up talking to the air until I notice)
* expect me to notice visual cues (e.g. pointing) — I can detect some of these, but it takes effort, and my attention will be overburdened already

Villagers

2022-05-20T21:57:24Z

Saizai: copy template from 2018 wiki; comment out picture wall as unused

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User:Saizai

2022-05-20T21:45:52Z

Saizai: /* You can see me, but I can't see you */ + blind stuff header

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Hi, I'm Sai (I'm mononymous); my handle is saizai pretty much everywhere; I'm non-binary/agender (so gender neutral pronouns etc).

I speak English, Russian, American Sign Language, French, & Spanish to at least conversational fluency, plus marginal Japanese, minimal Chinese, and barely-existent Arabic. N.b. I don't know British Sign Language (except the alphabet), and ASL/BSL aren't mutually intelligible.

== Talk, workshops, & goalball ==

I'm giving the Sense Without Sight / blind navigation [https://www.emfcamp.org/schedule/2022/8-sense-without-sight talk] & [https://www.emfcamp.org/schedule/2022/152-sense-without-sight-hands-on-workshop workshops]. I'm also running a [https://www.emfcamp.org/schedule/2022/151-meditation-for-hackers meditation workshop]. I may be co-running games of [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxxGf82as4Q goalball], TBD on volunteers.

I'd appreciate if you fill out the "for Science" section of the [https://s.ai/emf/ws sign up / pre-talk form] before going to my talk, and the [https://s.ai/emf/fb feedback form] afterwards.

=== Workshop ===

Take a walk with me through camp — blindfolded, with one of my guide canes — and sense the world like I do: using air currents, heat, sound, echolocation, ground texture, wind shadow, and more. It's a unique, permanent sensory upgrade you can still use when sighted.

Workshops are every day at 7pm (1 hour after sunset), possibly at ~8:30pm (depending on my stamina & voice), and by special arrangement, and last ~1–1.5 hours. They start at my tent, near the Hardware Hacking Area. It might be marked with a [https://conlang.org/conlang-flag/ conlang flag].

I can handle 4 student participants + 4 assistants per workshop, plus up to 5 observers.

Assistants follow one student around for the entire workshop. I'll explain it at the outset and be supervising & teaching throughout; I just can't fully monitor 4 students on my own. Generally the job is to not interfere at all — but to monitor and correct a couple safety issues, help lead students to stimuli they may've missed, and keep everyone close enough together so I don't wear out my voice. I strongly encourage assistants to have first been a student, and students to act as an assistant for someone else in a subsequent session; both people will learn a lot more.

Observers are welcome to tag along for all or part of any workshop. You can ask questions when I'm not attending to a student. Feel free to sit or stand in the way or otherwise behave as usual; humans are part of obstacles found in the normal environment and part of what I teach. Just don't do anything to my students that I'd want you to not do to me (see below). If there're more than 5 observers currently present, just come back another time (or sign up to participate yourself).

1. Mandatory for all students & assistants:
* [https://s.ai/emf/ws Sign up] beforehand and [https://s.ai/emf/fb provide feedback] afterwards.
* Watch my talk first, preferably in person (but there's video also). You'll learn much more if we can focus on what I can't show in the talk.
* Have a negative COVID test in last 48h. LFTs will be available at the medical tent at your convenience for a minimal fee.
* Be totally sober.
* Pee & wash your hands first.
* Reserve at least 1 full hour, preferably 1.5. Doing a "shortened" version does not work well (I've tried); it is very fast-paced as is.
* Age 15+. If you're a minor, bring a responsible adult to act as your assistant (who's also signed up).
* Contact me in advance about any disability or other situation affecting your senses, mobility, stability, concentration, or sensory overload. I can accommodate most disabilities (and FWIW one of my best students ever used a manual wheelchair). Some may require special arrangements (e.g. slightly different paths for wheelchair users; hearing interpreter for deaf people; 1-on-1 for both), but most are just things I need to be aware of, and can fit in the regular workshop.
2. Strongly encouraged:
* Fill out the "for Science" section of signup & feedback forms.
* Find & bring someone to act as your assistant, preferably someone who's done my workshop before (and have them sign up); ask around camp or Twitter @EMFCamp #BlindNavigation. I'll try to arrange for assistants if you don't bring one.
* Have head uncovered, wear short sleeves, and thin shoes.
* Bring a full-coverage blindfold / sleep mask. I'll have a bunch of extras, but I can't re-sterilise them during camp.
* Act as an assistant after having done the workshop as participant. You'll learn a lot more than just the first time, and help others like someone else helped you.

My goal with this workshop is for you to have an experience that is as close as possible to an accurate taste of what being blind is really like — including the sensory input, orientation, identification, path-finding, etc. that I use every day. In fact, it's based directly on how I was taught myself, by a blind friend, over course of a few days — just greatly condensed and without most of the practical skills that you'd need to actually navigate on your own. One hour is not enough to teach you to get around without my help — but it is enough to teach you how to use senses you've probably never noticed before.

The workshop is fast-paced but very carefully incremental, along paths I've personally checked first. We start with literally just walking back and forth in a totally clear area; by the end, you'll have been able to do a lot more than you probably expect — including sensing and navigating the tents, guylines, roots, branches, ditches, crates of Mate, rough dirt, grass, gravel, people, robots, etc. that are throughout camp.

I want you to come out of the workshop with a feeling of empowerment and newly broadened senses, not fear or pity. It is normal to feel anxious due to disorientation in the first few minutes. Just pay attention to the things I point out; I promise that this changes once you understand different ways of orienting yourself. This is why I do not do "short" workshops — it takes time for you to acclimatise to a totally different way of perceiving the world, and one hour is about the minimum in which I can reliably bring people over that initial hump.

Everyone varies on what's easier for them to sense (e.g. echolocation, air pressure, heat, etc). Most people can perceive at least a bit of everything I show (though not 100%). For some things (like doorways & wall corners), almost everyone I've taught has minimal confidence that they even feel it at all — yet when I have them test it, they get it right anyway. A lot of these sensations are subtle. That's fine. Practice noticing the same things in the days and years after and you'll discover it becomes a lot more obvious and intuitive over time.

Although most people expect it to be an experience of sensory deprivation, blindness is actually an experience of sensory over-stimulation. If you start to feel overwhelmed, just tell me and I'll provide ways to lower the intensity.

It's normal to perceive a subtle stimulus as a sensory experience, but be confused about how to identify or interpret it. It'll probably require conscious processing to puzzle out. For most people (including me!), it requires years of experience before having the subjective shift from "I can tell there's a some sort of difference in the sound quality on my left vs my right" to "I hear a plastic wall at my 4 o'clock" (though some of my students have gotten this within an hour). That's fine; the idea is for you to get a realistic taste of the sensory experience, not to be able to navigate on your own. I'll help guide you to notice more than you did at first and think it through, and help you interpret things that simply require more experience.

I ''will'' let you walk into lots of different things (with your cane) without telling you first, if I'm confident that you can handle them and they're not actually dangerous. Allowing you to explore for yourself — and guiding you to notice and interpret stimuli you missed the first time — is a critical part of what makes this work. Walking into things is one of the primary orientation strategies, not a problem, and it's one of the primary purposes of a guide cane; if you watch me walking around camp, you'll notice that I do so all the time.

Caning out of sync or with a bad sweep range, or walking with abnormal gait, are pretty much the only parts that are a safety issue. You can't ingrain cane skills well enough in just an hour to be fully consistent, which is why correcting this is nearly the only way I will have assistants interrupt you, and why I spend the first several minutes just having you walk normally on a simple, straight path. It's also why I require that you be totally sober. So far, of ~130–150 students I've taught to date, only one has had any injury — a mild bruise due to caning out of sync that wasn't caught by their assistant (and I've revised things to help correct for that). However, nobody's perfect, and EMF is in a somewhat chaotic field. It's possible you might trip, walk into something in a way that's not intentional, or the like — which is why the signup form includes a liability waiver saying you won't sue me or EMF if you get hurt.

Bottom line: I can guarantee that you'll leave having learnt to perceive the world in ways that you never noticed before, and you won't get this kind of training from anyone else (unless you become blind yourself). And if you practice, you'll have permanently expanded senses, not just an abstract understanding. Ask anyone who's done my workshop before, or check out the (approved-to-be-public) [https://s.ai/emf/fbr feedback I've gotten so far] — and please post your own comments on it publicly if you feel comfortable doing so.

== Volunteers needed ==

I will need volunteers who can help:
* be my uke during the talk (i.e. safely take wrist/joint locks, takedown, etc; aikido, judo, or similar martial arts experience required)
* move through the talk audience with some special props (scooter would help but not required)
* set up & referee goalball (no experience required)
* make video of one of my workshops

See https://s.ai/emf for links to all of the above, and [https://s.ai/contact contact me] if you can help.

= Blind stuff =

== You can see me, but I can't see you ==

I should be very easy to recognize, 'cause I should be the only person at EMF who has both a long white/red guide cane and a white/black/red walking cane.

I am light-blind — fully sighted in sufficiently dim environments, fully blind (or in significant pain) in sufficiently bright ones. I use a screen reader, braille, etc., when I'm outside or over pain tolerance, and (usually) usual sighted stuff when I'm not.

Unless there is no light source in my field of view, I probably can't see you. I might not know you're there even if you're looking at me, and may not realize that you're talking to me if you say something in my general direction unless you use my name. So, please talk.

== Socialising ==

My blindness limits my ability to add myself to conversations, discover neat people & things, etc — but I ''do'' like talking, making friends, learning and making new things, playing with robots, good board games (like Go), etc. just like any other hacker. So if you see me, please come up and introduce yourself, invite me to something, let me know about cool stuff in the area, or the like. Please say my name (Sai) so I know you're addressing me.

[https://s.ai My website] should give you a reasonable spread of potential topics of mutual interest. I'm always love to learn what I don't know I don't know, so if there's something that ''you'' think is interesting, please bring it up.

One exception: let's please talk about something ''other'' than blindness, unless it's in the context of my talk or workshops, or if you have related feedback or proposals. I don't want to be "token blind person", and the Q&As from my talk & workshops will probably saturate my tolerance for that particular topic.

I generally like hugs, skritches, etc., but always ''ask first''. If you like such things too, please tell me explicitly, 'cause I'm probably not able to pick up on your body language cues.

For longer interactions, I would be more comfortable if I am in a darker environment (with no lights in my field of view) and sitting down.

Although I can use my phone while blind, it's fairly tedious and requires attention — I can't easily walk and read at the same time (let alone write). Expect me to check email, Twitter, etc. during camp only when I wake up and go to sleep, not during the day. If there's something that needs a same-day response, please call or tell me in person.

== Blind courtesy tips ==

You do ''not'' need to get out of my way or the like when I'm walking around — and I prefer you don't. I can navigate around you just fine.

If you cough, talk, scuff your feet, or the like, it'll help me know you're there and walk around you. If you freeze up, I'll probably hit you in the foot with my guide cane. That doesn't bother me, and it doesn't hurt, but it might startle you. If I'm queuing behind you, I'll probably maintain gentle contact on your heel with my cane so I know when to move.

I can deal with almost all obstacles by myself, and walking into things is a feature, not a bug. However, please do tell me about:
* fragile or spillable objects at ground level that'd be damaged by being stepped on or hit with a cane (e.g. robots, non-empty bottles, silent toddlers); and
* objects with substantial projections above hip level, since I can miss them with my face before my cane (e.g. convex sculptures, guy lines, signs on posts, lorries with high undercarriage, tree branches).

Just address me saying what and where it is (e.g. "hey Sai, there's a signpost at your 2 o'clock") — not instructions (e.g. "go left").

If I'm asking directions, I strongly prefer a verbal description, or (with my consent) a map drawn on my back (where up means the direction I'm facing). If you're pointing out a specific nearby object for me to interact with (e.g. table, chair), just tap it a couple times with your hand so I can orient precisely. If I'm following you, I will probably do so by sound (just keep talking or scuff your feet); if I'm having sensory overload, I might ask to follow you by holding onto your arm / elbow, but that's rare.

Please do ''not'':
* cut across me in front (you'll trip and tangle my cane)
* grab me or my cane, or move any of my things, without my express consent
** ... unless I'm about to actually hurt myself or someone else
* move things in my environment without telling me (it fucks with my object permanence)
* walk away without telling me (I'll end up talking to the air until I notice)
* expect me to notice visual cues (e.g. pointing) — I can detect some of these, but it takes effort, and my attention will be overburdened already

User:Saizai

2022-05-20T21:44:46Z

Saizai: /* Talk, workshops, & goalball */ spelling, + flag

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|Arrival=2022-06-02T14:00:00.000Z
|Departure=2022-06-06T12:00:00.000Z
|Website=https://s.ai
|Email=emf@saizai.com
|IRC=saizai
|Twitter=saizai
|Facebook=saizai
|Pronouns=🇺🇸🇬🇧 they/you, 🇷🇺 они/вы, 🇫🇷 iel/vous, 🇪🇸 elle/Ud., 🇯🇵 あの人/あなた, 🇨🇳 他/您
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Hi, I'm Sai (I'm mononymous); my handle is saizai pretty much everywhere; I'm non-binary/agender (so gender neutral pronouns etc).

I speak English, Russian, American Sign Language, French, & Spanish to at least conversational fluency, plus marginal Japanese, minimal Chinese, and barely-existent Arabic. N.b. I don't know British Sign Language (except the alphabet), and ASL/BSL aren't mutually intelligible.

== Talk, workshops, & goalball ==

I'm giving the Sense Without Sight / blind navigation [https://www.emfcamp.org/schedule/2022/8-sense-without-sight talk] & [https://www.emfcamp.org/schedule/2022/152-sense-without-sight-hands-on-workshop workshops]. I'm also running a [https://www.emfcamp.org/schedule/2022/151-meditation-for-hackers meditation workshop]. I may be co-running games of [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxxGf82as4Q goalball], TBD on volunteers.

I'd appreciate if you fill out the "for Science" section of the [https://s.ai/emf/ws sign up / pre-talk form] before going to my talk, and the [https://s.ai/emf/fb feedback form] afterwards.

=== Workshop ===

Take a walk with me through camp — blindfolded, with one of my guide canes — and sense the world like I do: using air currents, heat, sound, echolocation, ground texture, wind shadow, and more. It's a unique, permanent sensory upgrade you can still use when sighted.

Workshops are every day at 7pm (1 hour after sunset), possibly at ~8:30pm (depending on my stamina & voice), and by special arrangement, and last ~1–1.5 hours. They start at my tent, near the Hardware Hacking Area. It might be marked with a [https://conlang.org/conlang-flag/ conlang flag].

I can handle 4 student participants + 4 assistants per workshop, plus up to 5 observers.

Assistants follow one student around for the entire workshop. I'll explain it at the outset and be supervising & teaching throughout; I just can't fully monitor 4 students on my own. Generally the job is to not interfere at all — but to monitor and correct a couple safety issues, help lead students to stimuli they may've missed, and keep everyone close enough together so I don't wear out my voice. I strongly encourage assistants to have first been a student, and students to act as an assistant for someone else in a subsequent session; both people will learn a lot more.

Observers are welcome to tag along for all or part of any workshop. You can ask questions when I'm not attending to a student. Feel free to sit or stand in the way or otherwise behave as usual; humans are part of obstacles found in the normal environment and part of what I teach. Just don't do anything to my students that I'd want you to not do to me (see below). If there're more than 5 observers currently present, just come back another time (or sign up to participate yourself).

1. Mandatory for all students & assistants:
* [https://s.ai/emf/ws Sign up] beforehand and [https://s.ai/emf/fb provide feedback] afterwards.
* Watch my talk first, preferably in person (but there's video also). You'll learn much more if we can focus on what I can't show in the talk.
* Have a negative COVID test in last 48h. LFTs will be available at the medical tent at your convenience for a minimal fee.
* Be totally sober.
* Pee & wash your hands first.
* Reserve at least 1 full hour, preferably 1.5. Doing a "shortened" version does not work well (I've tried); it is very fast-paced as is.
* Age 15+. If you're a minor, bring a responsible adult to act as your assistant (who's also signed up).
* Contact me in advance about any disability or other situation affecting your senses, mobility, stability, concentration, or sensory overload. I can accommodate most disabilities (and FWIW one of my best students ever used a manual wheelchair). Some may require special arrangements (e.g. slightly different paths for wheelchair users; hearing interpreter for deaf people; 1-on-1 for both), but most are just things I need to be aware of, and can fit in the regular workshop.
2. Strongly encouraged:
* Fill out the "for Science" section of signup & feedback forms.
* Find & bring someone to act as your assistant, preferably someone who's done my workshop before (and have them sign up); ask around camp or Twitter @EMFCamp #BlindNavigation. I'll try to arrange for assistants if you don't bring one.
* Have head uncovered, wear short sleeves, and thin shoes.
* Bring a full-coverage blindfold / sleep mask. I'll have a bunch of extras, but I can't re-sterilise them during camp.
* Act as an assistant after having done the workshop as participant. You'll learn a lot more than just the first time, and help others like someone else helped you.

My goal with this workshop is for you to have an experience that is as close as possible to an accurate taste of what being blind is really like — including the sensory input, orientation, identification, path-finding, etc. that I use every day. In fact, it's based directly on how I was taught myself, by a blind friend, over course of a few days — just greatly condensed and without most of the practical skills that you'd need to actually navigate on your own. One hour is not enough to teach you to get around without my help — but it is enough to teach you how to use senses you've probably never noticed before.

The workshop is fast-paced but very carefully incremental, along paths I've personally checked first. We start with literally just walking back and forth in a totally clear area; by the end, you'll have been able to do a lot more than you probably expect — including sensing and navigating the tents, guylines, roots, branches, ditches, crates of Mate, rough dirt, grass, gravel, people, robots, etc. that are throughout camp.

I want you to come out of the workshop with a feeling of empowerment and newly broadened senses, not fear or pity. It is normal to feel anxious due to disorientation in the first few minutes. Just pay attention to the things I point out; I promise that this changes once you understand different ways of orienting yourself. This is why I do not do "short" workshops — it takes time for you to acclimatise to a totally different way of perceiving the world, and one hour is about the minimum in which I can reliably bring people over that initial hump.

Everyone varies on what's easier for them to sense (e.g. echolocation, air pressure, heat, etc). Most people can perceive at least a bit of everything I show (though not 100%). For some things (like doorways & wall corners), almost everyone I've taught has minimal confidence that they even feel it at all — yet when I have them test it, they get it right anyway. A lot of these sensations are subtle. That's fine. Practice noticing the same things in the days and years after and you'll discover it becomes a lot more obvious and intuitive over time.

Although most people expect it to be an experience of sensory deprivation, blindness is actually an experience of sensory over-stimulation. If you start to feel overwhelmed, just tell me and I'll provide ways to lower the intensity.

It's normal to perceive a subtle stimulus as a sensory experience, but be confused about how to identify or interpret it. It'll probably require conscious processing to puzzle out. For most people (including me!), it requires years of experience before having the subjective shift from "I can tell there's a some sort of difference in the sound quality on my left vs my right" to "I hear a plastic wall at my 4 o'clock" (though some of my students have gotten this within an hour). That's fine; the idea is for you to get a realistic taste of the sensory experience, not to be able to navigate on your own. I'll help guide you to notice more than you did at first and think it through, and help you interpret things that simply require more experience.

I ''will'' let you walk into lots of different things (with your cane) without telling you first, if I'm confident that you can handle them and they're not actually dangerous. Allowing you to explore for yourself — and guiding you to notice and interpret stimuli you missed the first time — is a critical part of what makes this work. Walking into things is one of the primary orientation strategies, not a problem, and it's one of the primary purposes of a guide cane; if you watch me walking around camp, you'll notice that I do so all the time.

Caning out of sync or with a bad sweep range, or walking with abnormal gait, are pretty much the only parts that are a safety issue. You can't ingrain cane skills well enough in just an hour to be fully consistent, which is why correcting this is nearly the only way I will have assistants interrupt you, and why I spend the first several minutes just having you walk normally on a simple, straight path. It's also why I require that you be totally sober. So far, of ~130–150 students I've taught to date, only one has had any injury — a mild bruise due to caning out of sync that wasn't caught by their assistant (and I've revised things to help correct for that). However, nobody's perfect, and EMF is in a somewhat chaotic field. It's possible you might trip, walk into something in a way that's not intentional, or the like — which is why the signup form includes a liability waiver saying you won't sue me or EMF if you get hurt.

Bottom line: I can guarantee that you'll leave having learnt to perceive the world in ways that you never noticed before, and you won't get this kind of training from anyone else (unless you become blind yourself). And if you practice, you'll have permanently expanded senses, not just an abstract understanding. Ask anyone who's done my workshop before, or check out the (approved-to-be-public) [https://s.ai/emf/fbr feedback I've gotten so far] — and please post your own comments on it publicly if you feel comfortable doing so.

== Volunteers needed ==

I will need volunteers who can help:
* be my uke during the talk (i.e. safely take wrist/joint locks, takedown, etc; aikido, judo, or similar martial arts experience required)
* move through the talk audience with some special props (scooter would help but not required)
* set up & referee goalball (no experience required)
* make video of one of my workshops

See https://s.ai/emf for links to all of the above, and [https://s.ai/contact contact me] if you can help.

== You can see me, but I can't see you ==

I should be very easy to recognize, 'cause I should be the only person at EMF who has both a long white/red guide cane and a white/black/red walking cane.

I am light-blind — fully sighted in sufficiently dim environments, fully blind (or in significant pain) in sufficiently bright ones. I use a screen reader, braille, etc., when I'm outside or over pain tolerance, and (usually) usual sighted stuff when I'm not.

Unless there is no light source in my field of view, I probably can't see you. I might not know you're there even if you're looking at me, and may not realize that you're talking to me if you say something in my general direction unless you use my name. So, please talk.

== Socialising ==

My blindness limits my ability to add myself to conversations, discover neat people & things, etc — but I ''do'' like talking, making friends, learning and making new things, playing with robots, good board games (like Go), etc. just like any other hacker. So if you see me, please come up and introduce yourself, invite me to something, let me know about cool stuff in the area, or the like. Please say my name (Sai) so I know you're addressing me.

[https://s.ai My website] should give you a reasonable spread of potential topics of mutual interest. I'm always love to learn what I don't know I don't know, so if there's something that ''you'' think is interesting, please bring it up.

One exception: let's please talk about something ''other'' than blindness, unless it's in the context of my talk or workshops, or if you have related feedback or proposals. I don't want to be "token blind person", and the Q&As from my talk & workshops will probably saturate my tolerance for that particular topic.

I generally like hugs, skritches, etc., but always ''ask first''. If you like such things too, please tell me explicitly, 'cause I'm probably not able to pick up on your body language cues.

For longer interactions, I would be more comfortable if I am in a darker environment (with no lights in my field of view) and sitting down.

Although I can use my phone while blind, it's fairly tedious and requires attention — I can't easily walk and read at the same time (let alone write). Expect me to check email, Twitter, etc. during camp only when I wake up and go to sleep, not during the day. If there's something that needs a same-day response, please call or tell me in person.

== Blind courtesy tips ==

You do ''not'' need to get out of my way or the like when I'm walking around — and I prefer you don't. I can navigate around you just fine.

If you cough, talk, scuff your feet, or the like, it'll help me know you're there and walk around you. If you freeze up, I'll probably hit you in the foot with my guide cane. That doesn't bother me, and it doesn't hurt, but it might startle you. If I'm queuing behind you, I'll probably maintain gentle contact on your heel with my cane so I know when to move.

I can deal with almost all obstacles by myself, and walking into things is a feature, not a bug. However, please do tell me about:
* fragile or spillable objects at ground level that'd be damaged by being stepped on or hit with a cane (e.g. robots, non-empty bottles, silent toddlers); and
* objects with substantial projections above hip level, since I can miss them with my face before my cane (e.g. convex sculptures, guy lines, signs on posts, lorries with high undercarriage, tree branches).

Just address me saying what and where it is (e.g. "hey Sai, there's a signpost at your 2 o'clock") — not instructions (e.g. "go left").

If I'm asking directions, I strongly prefer a verbal description, or (with my consent) a map drawn on my back (where up means the direction I'm facing). If you're pointing out a specific nearby object for me to interact with (e.g. table, chair), just tap it a couple times with your hand so I can orient precisely. If I'm following you, I will probably do so by sound (just keep talking or scuff your feet); if I'm having sensory overload, I might ask to follow you by holding onto your arm / elbow, but that's rare.

Please do ''not'':
* cut across me in front (you'll trip and tangle my cane)
* grab me or my cane, or move any of my things, without my express consent
** ... unless I'm about to actually hurt myself or someone else
* move things in my environment without telling me (it fucks with my object permanence)
* walk away without telling me (I'll end up talking to the air until I notice)
* expect me to notice visual cues (e.g. pointing) — I can detect some of these, but it takes effort, and my attention will be overburdened already

User:Saizai

2022-05-20T21:41:55Z

Saizai: /* Socializing */ britishise

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|Name=Sai
|Village=Village:Hardware Hacking Area
|Bringing=blind stuff (canes, braille labeller, frame & stylus, etc)
|Arrival=2022-06-02T14:00:00.000Z
|Departure=2022-06-06T12:00:00.000Z
|Website=https://s.ai
|Email=emf@saizai.com
|IRC=saizai
|Twitter=saizai
|Facebook=saizai
|Pronouns=🇺🇸🇬🇧 they/you, 🇷🇺 они/вы, 🇫🇷 iel/vous, 🇪🇸 elle/Ud., 🇯🇵 あの人/あなた, 🇨🇳 他/您
|Access=blind
}}
Hi, I'm Sai (I'm mononymous); my handle is saizai pretty much everywhere; I'm non-binary/agender (so gender neutral pronouns etc).

I speak English, Russian, American Sign Language, French, & Spanish to at least conversational fluency, plus marginal Japanese, minimal Chinese, and barely-existent Arabic. N.b. I don't know British Sign Language (except the alphabet), and ASL/BSL aren't mutually intelligible.

== Talk, workshops, & goalball ==

I'm giving the Sense Without Sight / blind navigation [https://www.emfcamp.org/schedule/2022/8-sense-without-sight talk] & [https://www.emfcamp.org/schedule/2022/152-sense-without-sight-hands-on-workshop workshops]. I'm also running a [https://www.emfcamp.org/schedule/2022/151-meditation-for-hackers meditation workshop]. I may be co-running games of [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxxGf82as4Q goalball], TBD on volunteers.

I'd appreciate if you fill out the "for Science" section of the [https://s.ai/emf/ws sign up / pre-talk form] before going to my talk, and the [https://s.ai/emf/fb feedback form] afterwards.

=== Workshop ===

Take a walk with me through camp — blindfolded, with one of my guide canes — and sense the world like I do: using air currents, heat, sound, echolocation, ground texture, wind shadow, and more. It's a unique, permanent sensory upgrade you can still use when sighted.

Workshops are every day at 7pm (1 hour after sunset), possibly at ~8:30pm (depending on my stamina & voice), and by special arrangement, and lasts ~1–1.5 hours. They start at my tent, near the Hardware Hacking Area.

I can handle 4 student participants + 4 assistants per workshop, plus up to 5 observers.

Assistants follow one student around for the entire workshop. I'll explain it at the outset and be supervising & teaching throughout; I just can't fully monitor 4 students on my own. Generally the job is to not interfere at all — but to monitor and correct a couple safety issues, help lead students to stimuli they may've missed, and keep everyone close enough together so I don't wear out my voice. I strongly encourage assistants to have first been a student, and students to act as an assistant for someone else in a subsequent session; both people will learn a lot more.

Observers are welcome to tag along for all or part of any workshop. You can ask questions when I'm not attending to a student. Feel free to sit or stand in the way or otherwise behave as usual; humans are part of obstacles found in the normal environment and part of what I teach. Just don't do anything to my students that I'd want you to not do to me (see below). If there're more than 5 observers currently present, just come back another time (or sign up to participate yourself).

1. Mandatory for all students & assistants:
* [https://s.ai/emf/ws Sign up] beforehand and [https://s.ai/emf/fb provide feedback] afterwards.
* Watch my talk first, preferably in person (but there's video also). You'll learn much more if we can focus on what I can't show in the talk.
* Have a negative COVID test in last 48h. LFTs will be available at the medical tent at your convenience for a minimal fee.
* Be totally sober.
* Pee & wash your hands first.
* Reserve at least 1 full hour, preferably 1.5. Doing a "shortened" version does not work well (I've tried); it is very fast-paced as is.
* Age 15+. If you're a minor, bring a responsible adult to act as your assistant (who's also signed up).
* Contact me in advance about any disability or other situation affecting your senses, mobility, stability, concentration, or sensory overload. I can accommodate most disabilities (and FWIW one of my best students ever used a manual wheelchair). Some may require special arrangements (e.g. slightly different paths for wheelchair users; hearing interpreter for deaf people; 1-on-1 for both), but most are just things I need to be aware of, and can fit in the regular workshop.
2. Strongly encouraged:
* Fill out the "for Science" section of signup & feedback forms.
* Find & bring someone to act as your assistant, preferably someone who's done my workshop before (and have them sign up); ask around camp or Twitter @EMFCamp #BlindNavigation. I'll try to arrange for assistants if you don't bring one.
* Have head uncovered, wear short sleeves, and thin shoes.
* Bring a full-coverage blindfold / sleep mask. I'll have a bunch of extras, but I can't re-sterilise them during camp.
* Act as an assistant after having done the workshop as participant. You'll learn a lot more than just the first time, and help others like someone else helped you.

My goal with this workshop is for you to have an experience that is as close as possible to an accurate taste of what being blind is really like — including the sensory input, orientation, identification, path-finding, etc. that I use every day. In fact, it's based directly on how I was taught myself, by a blind friend, over course of a few days — just greatly condensed and without most of the practical skills that you'd need to actually navigate on your own. One hour is not enough to teach you to get around without my help — but it is enough to teach you how to use senses you've probably never noticed before.

The workshop is fast-paced but very carefully incremental, along paths I've personally checked first. We start with literally just walking back and forth in a totally clear area; by the end, you'll have been able to do a lot more than you probably expect — including sensing and navigating the tents, guylines, roots, branches, ditches, crates of Mate, rough dirt, grass, gravel, people, robots, etc. that are throughout camp.

I want you to come out of the workshop with a feeling of empowerment and newly broadened senses, not fear or pity. It is normal to feel anxious due to disorientation in the first few minutes. Just pay attention to the things I point out; I promise that this changes once you understand different ways of orienting yourself. This is why I do not do "short" workshops — it takes time for you to acclimatise to a totally different way of perceiving the world, and one hour is about the minimum in which I can reliably bring people over that initial hump.

Everyone varies on what's easier for them to sense (e.g. echolocation, air pressure, heat, etc). Most people can perceive at least a bit of everything I show (though not 100%). For some things (like doorways & wall corners), almost everyone I've taught has minimal confidence that they even feel it at all — yet when I have them test it, they get it right anyway. A lot of these sensations are subtle. That's fine. Practice noticing the same things in the days and years after and you'll discover it becomes a lot more obvious and intuitive over time.

Although most people expect it to be an experience of sensory deprivation, blindness is actually an experience of sensory over-stimulation. If you start to feel overwhelmed, just tell me and I'll provide ways to lower the intensity.

It's normal to perceive a subtle stimulus as a sensory experience, but be confused about how to identify or interpret it. It'll probably require conscious processing to puzzle out. For most people (including me!), it requires years of experience before having the subjective shift from "I can tell there's a some sort of difference in the sound quality on my left vs my right" to "I hear a plastic wall at my 4 o'clock" (though some of my students have gotten this within an hour). That's fine; the idea is for you to get a realistic taste of the sensory experience, not to be able to navigate on your own. I'll help guide you to notice more than you did at first and think it through, and help you interpret things that simply require more experience.

I ''will'' let you walk into lots of different things (with your cane) without telling you first, if I'm confident that you can handle them and they're not actually dangerous. Allowing you to explore for yourself — and guiding you to notice and interpret stimuli you missed the first time — is a critical part of what makes this work. Walking into things is one of the primary orientation strategies, not a problem, and it's one of the primary purposes of a guide cane; if you watch me walking around camp, you'll notice that I do so all the time.

Caning out of sync or with a bad sweep range, or walking with abnormal gait, are pretty much the only parts that are a safety issue. You can't ingrain cane skills well enough in just an hour to be fully consistent, which is why correcting this is nearly the only way I will have assistants interrupt you, and why I spend the first several minutes just having you walk normally on a simple, straight path. It's also why I require that you be totally sober. So far, of ~130–150 students I've taught to date, only one has had any injury — a mild bruise due to caning out of sync that wasn't caught by their assistant (and I've revised things to help correct for that). However, nobody's perfect, and EMF is in a somewhat chaotic field. It's possible you might trip, walk into something in a way that's not intentional, or the like — which is why the signup form includes a liability waiver saying you won't sue me or EMF if you get hurt.

Bottom line: I can guarantee that you'll leave having learnt to perceive the world in ways that you never noticed before, and you won't get this kind of training from anyone else (unless you become blind yourself). And if you practice, you'll have permanently expanded senses, not just an abstract understanding. Ask anyone who's done my workshop before, or check out the (approved-to-be-public) [https://s.ai/emf/fbr feedback I've gotten so far] — and please post your own comments on it publicly if you feel comfortable doing so.

== Volunteers needed ==

I will need volunteers who can help:
* be my uke during the talk (i.e. safely take wrist/joint locks, takedown, etc; aikido, judo, or similar martial arts experience required)
* move through the talk audience with some special props (scooter would help but not required)
* set up & referee goalball (no experience required)
* make video of one of my workshops

See https://s.ai/emf for links to all of the above, and [https://s.ai/contact contact me] if you can help.

== You can see me, but I can't see you ==

I should be very easy to recognize, 'cause I should be the only person at EMF who has both a long white/red guide cane and a white/black/red walking cane.

I am light-blind — fully sighted in sufficiently dim environments, fully blind (or in significant pain) in sufficiently bright ones. I use a screen reader, braille, etc., when I'm outside or over pain tolerance, and (usually) usual sighted stuff when I'm not.

Unless there is no light source in my field of view, I probably can't see you. I might not know you're there even if you're looking at me, and may not realize that you're talking to me if you say something in my general direction unless you use my name. So, please talk.

== Socialising ==

My blindness limits my ability to add myself to conversations, discover neat people & things, etc — but I ''do'' like talking, making friends, learning and making new things, playing with robots, good board games (like Go), etc. just like any other hacker. So if you see me, please come up and introduce yourself, invite me to something, let me know about cool stuff in the area, or the like. Please say my name (Sai) so I know you're addressing me.

[https://s.ai My website] should give you a reasonable spread of potential topics of mutual interest. I'm always love to learn what I don't know I don't know, so if there's something that ''you'' think is interesting, please bring it up.

One exception: let's please talk about something ''other'' than blindness, unless it's in the context of my talk or workshops, or if you have related feedback or proposals. I don't want to be "token blind person", and the Q&As from my talk & workshops will probably saturate my tolerance for that particular topic.

I generally like hugs, skritches, etc., but always ''ask first''. If you like such things too, please tell me explicitly, 'cause I'm probably not able to pick up on your body language cues.

For longer interactions, I would be more comfortable if I am in a darker environment (with no lights in my field of view) and sitting down.

Although I can use my phone while blind, it's fairly tedious and requires attention — I can't easily walk and read at the same time (let alone write). Expect me to check email, Twitter, etc. during camp only when I wake up and go to sleep, not during the day. If there's something that needs a same-day response, please call or tell me in person.

== Blind courtesy tips ==

You do ''not'' need to get out of my way or the like when I'm walking around — and I prefer you don't. I can navigate around you just fine.

If you cough, talk, scuff your feet, or the like, it'll help me know you're there and walk around you. If you freeze up, I'll probably hit you in the foot with my guide cane. That doesn't bother me, and it doesn't hurt, but it might startle you. If I'm queuing behind you, I'll probably maintain gentle contact on your heel with my cane so I know when to move.

I can deal with almost all obstacles by myself, and walking into things is a feature, not a bug. However, please do tell me about:
* fragile or spillable objects at ground level that'd be damaged by being stepped on or hit with a cane (e.g. robots, non-empty bottles, silent toddlers); and
* objects with substantial projections above hip level, since I can miss them with my face before my cane (e.g. convex sculptures, guy lines, signs on posts, lorries with high undercarriage, tree branches).

Just address me saying what and where it is (e.g. "hey Sai, there's a signpost at your 2 o'clock") — not instructions (e.g. "go left").

If I'm asking directions, I strongly prefer a verbal description, or (with my consent) a map drawn on my back (where up means the direction I'm facing). If you're pointing out a specific nearby object for me to interact with (e.g. table, chair), just tap it a couple times with your hand so I can orient precisely. If I'm following you, I will probably do so by sound (just keep talking or scuff your feet); if I'm having sensory overload, I might ask to follow you by holding onto your arm / elbow, but that's rare.

Please do ''not'':
* cut across me in front (you'll trip and tangle my cane)
* grab me or my cane, or move any of my things, without my express consent
** ... unless I'm about to actually hurt myself or someone else
* move things in my environment without telling me (it fucks with my object permanence)
* walk away without telling me (I'll end up talking to the air until I notice)
* expect me to notice visual cues (e.g. pointing) — I can detect some of these, but it takes effort, and my attention will be overburdened already

User:Saizai

2022-05-20T21:40:43Z

Saizai: Created page with "{{Attendee |Name=Sai |Village=Village:Hardware Hacking Area |Bringing=blind stuff (canes, braille labeller, frame & stylus, etc) |Arrival=2022-06-02T14:00:00.000Z |Departure=2..."

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|Facebook=saizai
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Hi, I'm Sai (I'm mononymous); my handle is saizai pretty much everywhere; I'm non-binary/agender (so gender neutral pronouns etc).

I speak English, Russian, American Sign Language, French, & Spanish to at least conversational fluency, plus marginal Japanese, minimal Chinese, and barely-existent Arabic. N.b. I don't know British Sign Language (except the alphabet), and ASL/BSL aren't mutually intelligible.

== Talk, workshops, & goalball ==

I'm giving the Sense Without Sight / blind navigation [https://www.emfcamp.org/schedule/2022/8-sense-without-sight talk] & [https://www.emfcamp.org/schedule/2022/152-sense-without-sight-hands-on-workshop workshops]. I'm also running a [https://www.emfcamp.org/schedule/2022/151-meditation-for-hackers meditation workshop]. I may be co-running games of [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxxGf82as4Q goalball], TBD on volunteers.

I'd appreciate if you fill out the "for Science" section of the [https://s.ai/emf/ws sign up / pre-talk form] before going to my talk, and the [https://s.ai/emf/fb feedback form] afterwards.

=== Workshop ===

Take a walk with me through camp — blindfolded, with one of my guide canes — and sense the world like I do: using air currents, heat, sound, echolocation, ground texture, wind shadow, and more. It's a unique, permanent sensory upgrade you can still use when sighted.

Workshops are every day at 7pm (1 hour after sunset), possibly at ~8:30pm (depending on my stamina & voice), and by special arrangement, and lasts ~1–1.5 hours. They start at my tent, near the Hardware Hacking Area.

I can handle 4 student participants + 4 assistants per workshop, plus up to 5 observers.

Assistants follow one student around for the entire workshop. I'll explain it at the outset and be supervising & teaching throughout; I just can't fully monitor 4 students on my own. Generally the job is to not interfere at all — but to monitor and correct a couple safety issues, help lead students to stimuli they may've missed, and keep everyone close enough together so I don't wear out my voice. I strongly encourage assistants to have first been a student, and students to act as an assistant for someone else in a subsequent session; both people will learn a lot more.

Observers are welcome to tag along for all or part of any workshop. You can ask questions when I'm not attending to a student. Feel free to sit or stand in the way or otherwise behave as usual; humans are part of obstacles found in the normal environment and part of what I teach. Just don't do anything to my students that I'd want you to not do to me (see below). If there're more than 5 observers currently present, just come back another time (or sign up to participate yourself).

1. Mandatory for all students & assistants:
* [https://s.ai/emf/ws Sign up] beforehand and [https://s.ai/emf/fb provide feedback] afterwards.
* Watch my talk first, preferably in person (but there's video also). You'll learn much more if we can focus on what I can't show in the talk.
* Have a negative COVID test in last 48h. LFTs will be available at the medical tent at your convenience for a minimal fee.
* Be totally sober.
* Pee & wash your hands first.
* Reserve at least 1 full hour, preferably 1.5. Doing a "shortened" version does not work well (I've tried); it is very fast-paced as is.
* Age 15+. If you're a minor, bring a responsible adult to act as your assistant (who's also signed up).
* Contact me in advance about any disability or other situation affecting your senses, mobility, stability, concentration, or sensory overload. I can accommodate most disabilities (and FWIW one of my best students ever used a manual wheelchair). Some may require special arrangements (e.g. slightly different paths for wheelchair users; hearing interpreter for deaf people; 1-on-1 for both), but most are just things I need to be aware of, and can fit in the regular workshop.
2. Strongly encouraged:
* Fill out the "for Science" section of signup & feedback forms.
* Find & bring someone to act as your assistant, preferably someone who's done my workshop before (and have them sign up); ask around camp or Twitter @EMFCamp #BlindNavigation. I'll try to arrange for assistants if you don't bring one.
* Have head uncovered, wear short sleeves, and thin shoes.
* Bring a full-coverage blindfold / sleep mask. I'll have a bunch of extras, but I can't re-sterilise them during camp.
* Act as an assistant after having done the workshop as participant. You'll learn a lot more than just the first time, and help others like someone else helped you.

My goal with this workshop is for you to have an experience that is as close as possible to an accurate taste of what being blind is really like — including the sensory input, orientation, identification, path-finding, etc. that I use every day. In fact, it's based directly on how I was taught myself, by a blind friend, over course of a few days — just greatly condensed and without most of the practical skills that you'd need to actually navigate on your own. One hour is not enough to teach you to get around without my help — but it is enough to teach you how to use senses you've probably never noticed before.

The workshop is fast-paced but very carefully incremental, along paths I've personally checked first. We start with literally just walking back and forth in a totally clear area; by the end, you'll have been able to do a lot more than you probably expect — including sensing and navigating the tents, guylines, roots, branches, ditches, crates of Mate, rough dirt, grass, gravel, people, robots, etc. that are throughout camp.

I want you to come out of the workshop with a feeling of empowerment and newly broadened senses, not fear or pity. It is normal to feel anxious due to disorientation in the first few minutes. Just pay attention to the things I point out; I promise that this changes once you understand different ways of orienting yourself. This is why I do not do "short" workshops — it takes time for you to acclimatise to a totally different way of perceiving the world, and one hour is about the minimum in which I can reliably bring people over that initial hump.

Everyone varies on what's easier for them to sense (e.g. echolocation, air pressure, heat, etc). Most people can perceive at least a bit of everything I show (though not 100%). For some things (like doorways & wall corners), almost everyone I've taught has minimal confidence that they even feel it at all — yet when I have them test it, they get it right anyway. A lot of these sensations are subtle. That's fine. Practice noticing the same things in the days and years after and you'll discover it becomes a lot more obvious and intuitive over time.

Although most people expect it to be an experience of sensory deprivation, blindness is actually an experience of sensory over-stimulation. If you start to feel overwhelmed, just tell me and I'll provide ways to lower the intensity.

It's normal to perceive a subtle stimulus as a sensory experience, but be confused about how to identify or interpret it. It'll probably require conscious processing to puzzle out. For most people (including me!), it requires years of experience before having the subjective shift from "I can tell there's a some sort of difference in the sound quality on my left vs my right" to "I hear a plastic wall at my 4 o'clock" (though some of my students have gotten this within an hour). That's fine; the idea is for you to get a realistic taste of the sensory experience, not to be able to navigate on your own. I'll help guide you to notice more than you did at first and think it through, and help you interpret things that simply require more experience.

I ''will'' let you walk into lots of different things (with your cane) without telling you first, if I'm confident that you can handle them and they're not actually dangerous. Allowing you to explore for yourself — and guiding you to notice and interpret stimuli you missed the first time — is a critical part of what makes this work. Walking into things is one of the primary orientation strategies, not a problem, and it's one of the primary purposes of a guide cane; if you watch me walking around camp, you'll notice that I do so all the time.

Caning out of sync or with a bad sweep range, or walking with abnormal gait, are pretty much the only parts that are a safety issue. You can't ingrain cane skills well enough in just an hour to be fully consistent, which is why correcting this is nearly the only way I will have assistants interrupt you, and why I spend the first several minutes just having you walk normally on a simple, straight path. It's also why I require that you be totally sober. So far, of ~130–150 students I've taught to date, only one has had any injury — a mild bruise due to caning out of sync that wasn't caught by their assistant (and I've revised things to help correct for that). However, nobody's perfect, and EMF is in a somewhat chaotic field. It's possible you might trip, walk into something in a way that's not intentional, or the like — which is why the signup form includes a liability waiver saying you won't sue me or EMF if you get hurt.

Bottom line: I can guarantee that you'll leave having learnt to perceive the world in ways that you never noticed before, and you won't get this kind of training from anyone else (unless you become blind yourself). And if you practice, you'll have permanently expanded senses, not just an abstract understanding. Ask anyone who's done my workshop before, or check out the (approved-to-be-public) [https://s.ai/emf/fbr feedback I've gotten so far] — and please post your own comments on it publicly if you feel comfortable doing so.

== Volunteers needed ==

I will need volunteers who can help:
* be my uke during the talk (i.e. safely take wrist/joint locks, takedown, etc; aikido, judo, or similar martial arts experience required)
* move through the talk audience with some special props (scooter would help but not required)
* set up & referee goalball (no experience required)
* make video of one of my workshops

See https://s.ai/emf for links to all of the above, and [https://s.ai/contact contact me] if you can help.

== You can see me, but I can't see you ==

I should be very easy to recognize, 'cause I should be the only person at EMF who has both a long white/red guide cane and a white/black/red walking cane.

I am light-blind — fully sighted in sufficiently dim environments, fully blind (or in significant pain) in sufficiently bright ones. I use a screen reader, braille, etc., when I'm outside or over pain tolerance, and (usually) usual sighted stuff when I'm not.

Unless there is no light source in my field of view, I probably can't see you. I might not know you're there even if you're looking at me, and may not realize that you're talking to me if you say something in my general direction unless you use my name. So, please talk.

== Socializing ==

My blindness limits my ability to add myself to conversations, discover neat people & things, etc — but I ''do'' like talking, making friends, learning and making new things, playing with robots, good board games (like Go), etc. just like any other hacker. So if you see me, please come up and introduce yourself, invite me to something, let me know about cool stuff in the area, or the like. Please say my name (Sai) so I know you're addressing me.

[https://s.ai My website] should give you a reasonable spread of potential topics of mutual interest. I'm always love to learn what I don't know I don't know, so if there's something that ''you'' think is interesting, please bring it up.

One exception: let's please talk about something ''other'' than blindness, unless it's in the context of my talk or workshops, or if you have related feedback or proposals. I don't want to be "token blind person", and the Q&As from my talk & workshops will probably saturate my tolerance for that particular topic.

I generally like hugs, skritches, etc., but always ''ask first''. If you like such things too, please tell me explicitly, 'cause I'm probably not able to pick up on your body language cues.

For longer interactions, I would be more comfortable if I am in a darker environment (with no lights in my field of view) and sitting down.

Although I can use my phone while blind, it's fairly tedious and requires attention — I can't easily walk and read at the same time (let alone write). Expect me to check email, Twitter, etc. during camp only when I wake up and go to sleep, not during the day. If there's something that needs a same-day response, please call or tell me in person.

== Blind courtesy tips ==

You do ''not'' need to get out of my way or the like when I'm walking around — and I prefer you don't. I can navigate around you just fine.

If you cough, talk, scuff your feet, or the like, it'll help me know you're there and walk around you. If you freeze up, I'll probably hit you in the foot with my guide cane. That doesn't bother me, and it doesn't hurt, but it might startle you. If I'm queuing behind you, I'll probably maintain gentle contact on your heel with my cane so I know when to move.

I can deal with almost all obstacles by myself, and walking into things is a feature, not a bug. However, please do tell me about:
* fragile or spillable objects at ground level that'd be damaged by being stepped on or hit with a cane (e.g. robots, non-empty bottles, silent toddlers); and
* objects with substantial projections above hip level, since I can miss them with my face before my cane (e.g. convex sculptures, guy lines, signs on posts, lorries with high undercarriage, tree branches).

Just address me saying what and where it is (e.g. "hey Sai, there's a signpost at your 2 o'clock") — not instructions (e.g. "go left").

If I'm asking directions, I strongly prefer a verbal description, or (with my consent) a map drawn on my back (where up means the direction I'm facing). If you're pointing out a specific nearby object for me to interact with (e.g. table, chair), just tap it a couple times with your hand so I can orient precisely. If I'm following you, I will probably do so by sound (just keep talking or scuff your feet); if I'm having sensory overload, I might ask to follow you by holding onto your arm / elbow, but that's rare.

Please do ''not'':
* cut across me in front (you'll trip and tangle my cane)
* grab me or my cane, or move any of my things, without my express consent
** ... unless I'm about to actually hurt myself or someone else
* move things in my environment without telling me (it fucks with my object permanence)
* walk away without telling me (I'll end up talking to the air until I notice)
* expect me to notice visual cues (e.g. pointing) — I can detect some of these, but it takes effort, and my attention will be overburdened already

User:Saizai/deleteme

2022-05-20T17:33:59Z

Saizai: copy from 2018 wiki (commenting out things that might be stale)

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|Contact=Maltman23
|Activities=hardware, hardware hacking, solder, soldering, electronics, Neurohacking, mind, sleep, bci, eeg, music synthesizers, music, art, craft
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==Hardware Hacking Area==
We're the hardware hacking area, in Camping:G [https://map.emfcamp.org/#17.89/52.040741/-2.376654 (map)].

We'll bring a bus that unfolds into a large tent, and hack on hardware under that. We'll have workshops and tools and a bunch of people ready to help and teach. You can learn to solder, learn to build things that blink and/or make noise, and generally have hardware fun.

There will be ongoing workshops on many topics.



 

All ages, all skill levels, all welcome!

Form:User

2022-05-20T17:19:39Z

Saizai:

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This is the "User" form.
To create a page with this form, enter the page name below;
if a page with that name already exists, you will be sent to a form to edit that page.

{{#forminput:form=User}}

</noinclude><includeonly>
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|-
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|-
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|-
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|-
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| {{{field|Email|input type=text}}}
|-
! IRC:
| {{{field|IRC}}}
|-
! Twitter (without @):
| {{{field|Twitter}}}
|-
! Facebook username:
| {{{field|Facebook}}}
|-
! Pronouns:
| {{{field|Pronouns}}}
|-
! Access/disability needs:
| {{{field|Access}}}
|-
! Team(s) ([[Form:Team|add team]]):
| {{{field|Teams|values from category=Teams|input type=checkboxes|multiple values}}}
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Form:Village

2022-05-20T17:18:05Z

Saizai: Copy from 2018 wiki

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This is the "Village" form.
To create a page with this form, enter the page name below;
if a page with that name already exists, you will be sent to a form to edit that page.

{{#forminput:form=Village}}

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|-
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|-
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|-
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| {{{field|Activities}}}
|-
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Interest:Lockpicking

2022-05-20T17:16:40Z

Saizai: Copy from 2018 wiki

Form:Interest

2022-05-20T17:16:31Z

Saizai: Copy from 2018 wiki

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This is the "Interest" form.
To create an interest with this form, enter the interest below;
if an interest already exists, you will be sent to a form to edit it.

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Template:Interest

2022-05-20T17:16:06Z

Saizai: Copy from 2018 wiki

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2022-05-20T17:15:50Z

Saizai: Copy from 2018 wiki

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Template:InterestAttendeeList

2022-05-20T17:15:04Z

Saizai: Copy from 2018 wiki

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Team:Bar

2022-05-20T17:11:10Z

Saizai: copy from 2018 wiki (minus things that might be stale)

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|MailingList=
}}

[https://www.emfcamp.org/about/volunteer-roles#cybar EMF Volunteer role page]

= What we do =

The team is collectively responsible for obtaining the license, logistics, setup, staffing and running of the bars throughout the event.

= Team members =

{{TeamUserList}}



== Bar staff ==

The are only two pre-requisites to volunteering as bar staff, first you must be over 18 as this is a legal requirement for selling alcohol which is a large part of the role, and second that you are willing to learn.

==== What do you get in return? ====

There are loads of benefits to volunteering on the EMF bar:

# Serving your fellow festival-goers and working with a team of volunteers in the fast paced environment behind the bar is a great way to meet new people and socialise, it doesn’t really feel like work at all.
# It’s a great way to learn how to work on a bar and get experience if you ever fancy a career change! We’ll teach you everything you need to know on the job, it’s really easy once you get started.
# Usually the bar shifts are pretty short so they’re easy to fit in with other things you might want to do, you can even pop back later and help out if there’s a big queue, and help get your friends served quicker.

Working behind the bar is loads of fun, it’s not hard work, and without lovely people like you we’d have no bar, so volunteer for a shift or two, or even three!

Team:Badge

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{{Infobox Team
|name=Badge
|desc=The camp badge - all design, manufacturing, and infrastructure
|needvolunteers=
|lead=
|deputy=
}}
== Team members ==

{{TeamUserList}}

== We need people to help with ==

Team:Admin

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{{Infobox Team
| Picture =
| name = Admin
| desc = Top level event organisation, including licensing, finance, site planning, and being angry at suppliers.
| lead = User:Russ, User:Jonty
| email =
| needvolunteers =
| Location=
}}

== Team members ==

{{TeamUserList}}

Template:TeamUserList

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<includeonly>{{#ask: [[Team::Team:{{SUBPAGENAME}}]]
| mainlabel = User
| ?Attendee_Name=Name
| ?Email
| ?Arrival
| ?Departure
}}
([{{fullurl:{{FULLPAGENAME}}|action=purge}} refresh table])</includeonly>

Template:Infobox Team

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</includeonly><noinclude>

== Tech support ==
This form is used in the following way:
<pre><nowiki>
{{Infobox Team
| Picture = EMFNOC.png
| Location =
| name = NOC
| desc = Network Operations Centre
| lead =
| needvolunteers = Yes
| Contact = <contact email>
| MailingList = <mailing list>
}}</nowiki></pre>

</noinclude>

Form:Team

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<noinclude>
This is the "Team" form.
To create a page with this form, enter the page name below;
if a page with that name already exists, you will be sent to a form to edit that page.

{{#forminput:form=Team}}

</noinclude><includeonly>
<div id="wikiPreview" style="display: none; padding-bottom: 25px; margin-bottom: 25px; border-bottom: 1px solid #AAAAAA;"></div>
{{{for template|Infobox Team}}}
{| class="formtable"
! Name:
| {{{field|name|mandatory}}}
|-
! Lead(s):
| {{{field|lead|values from category=Attendee|input type=listbox|multiple values}}}
|-
! Deputy:
| {{{field|deputy|values from category=Attendee|input type=listbox|multiple values}}}
|-
! Picture:
| {{{field|Picture}}}
|-
! Description:
| {{{field|desc}}}
|-
! Needs Volunteers:
| {{{field|needvolunteers|input type=checkbox}}}
|-
! Location:
| {{{field|Location}}}
|-
! Contact:
| {{{field|Contact}}}
|-
! Mailing List:
| {{{field|MailingList}}}
|}
{{{end template}}}

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{{{standard input|minor edit}}} {{{standard input|watch}}}

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</includeonly>

Form:User

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<noinclude>
This is the "User" form.
To create a page with this form, enter the page name below;
if a page with that name already exists, you will be sent to a form to edit that page.

{{#forminput:form=User}}

</noinclude><includeonly>
<div id="wikiPreview" style="display: none; padding-bottom: 25px; margin-bottom: 25px; border-bottom: 1px solid #AAAAAA;"></div>
{{{for template|Attendee}}}
{| class="formtable"
! Name:
| {{{field|Name}}}
|-
! Village(s):
| {{{field|Village|values from category=Villages|input type=listbox|multiple values}}}
|-
! Bringing:
| {{{field|Bringing}}}
|-
! Arrival:
| {{{field|Arrival|input type=datetimepicker}}}
|-
! Departure:
| {{{field|Departure|input type=datetimepicker}}}
|-
! Website:
| {{{field|Website|input type=text}}}
|-
! Email:
| {{{field|Email|input type=text}}}
|-
! IRC:
| {{{field|IRC}}}
|-
! Twitter (without @):
| {{{field|Twitter}}}
|-
! Facebook username:
| {{{field|Facebook}}}
|-
! Pronouns:
| {{{field|Pronouns}}}
|-
! Access/disability needs:
| {{{field|Access}}}
|-
! Team(s):
| {{{field|Teams|values from category=Teams|input type=checkboxes|multiple values}}}
|-
! Interested in:
| {{{field|Interests|values from category=Interests|input type=checkboxes|multiple values}}}
|}
{{{end template}}}

'''Free text:'''

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{{{standard input|summary}}}

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{{{standard input|save}}} {{{standard input|preview}}} {{{standard input|changes}}} {{{standard input|cancel}}}
</includeonly>

Template:AnInterest

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<includeonly>[[Interested in::{{{1}}}|]] [[Category:Interested in {{#explode:{{{1}}}|:|1}}]] [[{{{1}}}|{{#explode:{{{1}}}|:|1}}]]</includeonly><noinclude></noinclude>