[FM Discuss] mini sprint pics

[alejo duque]

> 6. Re: mini sprint pics (Joshua Facemyer)
>
> Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2009 10:46:03 -0500
> From: Joshua Facemyer <jfacemyer at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [FM Discuss] mini sprint pics
>
> Sweet!
>
> But what I'm really interested in is the lego gadget in the second  
> pic -
> tell us about that!

Hi everyone, i was part of that mini sprint form last weekend in  
Berlin, since i never before had the chance to be on a real book  
sprint i cant really tell much regarding its pros and cons.

I tend to believe that more can be achieved when the group is in a  
private space, but this is just a belief inspired on traditional  
academic spaces.. and now that i think about missing the good coffee  
or the chance to see other people moving around in a way so informal  
that allowed and gave in us, the group doing the mini sprint, some  
sort of flexible and lively energy dedicated to the activity on writing.

Sometimes I felt in the need to find a method on how to be aware what  
others were writing about, is funny to be in the same table, have a  
thing to say or ask but refrain since you prefer to respect the  
concentration of the other. Anyhow i just write this thinking it will  
be cool to have some sort of alert balloons appearing on screen  
announcing when someone or some topic, one is subscribed to, is  
writing, opening a particular chapter or editing using similar words  
to the ones one just typed in. Perhaps that is distracting also, but  
at least i will be aware when to ask, share or invite to analyze a  
situation one has in mind. I think this feature could work if one can  
just with one click subscribe or unsubscribe from people and topics  
that are active.

It was also clear to me that the model to create a FM relies heavily  
on the trust on each other, making one feel that is possible to be a  
writer and be, at least for some time the expert. A lot of trust comes  
in terms of the collective collaboration when one becomes aware that  
we will all have the chance to review, be editors and proof read thus  
helping each other and among all building a better text. that is  
really a very powerful experience that i wish i can see replicated  
specially in circles of people that tend to think they cant write or  
approach a topic. I wonder if i make sense but i really wanted to  
react and throw in some words after the workshop and book sprint  
related to Streaming Events.

So to finally answer Joshua's question on those lego pieces... it is a  
little robot cam i call halfbro4500, its an IRC bot under the nick of  
halFbroda that listens to commands as in: !south, !north, !move 1 45, ! 
move 2 90... etc

A webcam is streaming and on top of 2 servo motors, one for the X axis  
and the other for the Y axis.

Is all done with an arduino and is documented in spanish but let me  
know if you will like to know more, so to send you the links etc.

To wrap, i will be also at wintercamp (with the bricolabs network), i  
guess i will have plenty of free time so im hoping to join in to the  
sessions of FM that might allow taking newcomers on board!

looking forward,
/a