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* find video person
* find video person
* <s>get video from Catherine (she won't be able to Skype in)</s>
* find someone who can trade Bitcoins ("we should limit it to below 10 GBP or 2 BTC exchanges".) Potentially: lewis bowker who runs http://londonbitcoinexchange.com/
* find someone who can trade Bitcoins ("we should limit it to below 10 GBP or 2 BTC exchanges".) Potentially: lewis bowker who runs http://londonbitcoinexchange.com/
* find merchants (e.g. layer1gfx' Club Mate trade)
* find merchants (e.g. layer1gfx' Club Mate trade)
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* would be nice to find people who can organise dinner for all contributors (15-20 people)
* would be nice to find people who can organise dinner for all contributors (15-20 people)


== Invitation ==
== Workshop Details ==
 
A weekend of talks, discussions and workshops for Bitcoin contributors, domain experts from a wide range of fields, enthusiasts, and everyone curious about Bitcoin. This is a great chance for everyone to meet new people and learn new things.


We will discuss the code, the infrastructure, the community, the legal and political implications; we will look into the mechanisms of currency systems, security concerns of running Bitcoin infrastructure, and run workshops that show you how to participate.
Hello,


As the community grew it has become harder to separate hype from fact, charlatans from the smart ones. We will attempt to bring clarity, and to critique the Bitcoin system and community with a sober attitude.
you receive this email because you registered for the Bitcoin workshops on 25 Sept (this coming Sunday) at London Hackspace. We're getting in touch to let you know how best to prepare.


The event will happen over a weekend:
* Please bring your own laptop.
* On '''Saturday, 24 Sept 2011''' from 14:00-18:00 we will have talks and discussions
* Install Bitcoin (See the official [https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Getting_started Getting Started] page) and let the full block chain load. This may take up to a day, so make sure to start early. [http://bitcoinwatch.com/ bitcoinwatch.com] has a block counter to verify your progress.
* On '''Sunday, 25 Sept 2011''' from 14:00-18:00 we will have a few more talks, but mostly workshops
* Install PHP, a web server (e.g. Apache or lighttpd), and select a text editor of your choice. Make sure you know where your web root is, then test the setup with a basic PHP script.


We're quite excited about this event; there have been very few Bitcoin contributor meetings so far, even outside the UK. We'll try to record the talks and will make the videos public.  
We have Internet at the London Hackspace so in principle you could work on a remote web server, but we recommend you prepare a local development environment to be on the safe side.


=== About Bitcoin ===
See you this weekend,
The Bitcoin Weekend team.


Bitcoin is a peer-to-peer digital currency created in 2009 by Satoshi Nakamoto. Peer-to-peer means that no central authority issues new money or manages transactions—these tasks are carried out collectively by the network. It is also the name of the open source software designed in order to use this currency. The software is a community-driven open source project, released under the MIT license.
http://wiki.london.hackspace.org.uk/edit/Project:Bitcoin/Bitcoin_Weekend_2011


Learn more about it here:
* [http://www.weusecoins.com/ WeUseCoins.com]
* [http://bitcoin.org/ bitcoin.org]


=== Schedule ===
== Invitation ==


The schedule still changes frequently, so for now we're merely listing a rough outline. There's a lot of stuff already. We will also have:
Hello all,
* Bitcoin cake
* A Bitcoin live song performance
* A documentary video
* Talks, discussions, workshops


==== Day 0: Saturday ====
as indicated a few days ago we're planning a Bitcoin event at the London Hackspace on 24/25 Sept 2011. We already have an amazing roaster of contributions lined up. Everyone's quite excited about this event; there have been very few Bitcoin contributor meetings so far, even outside the UK. We'll try to record the talks and will make the videos public.


Talks and discussions, 14:00-18:00.
We're now ready to announce details.


* ''Keynote'' by '''Amir Taaki'''
* ''"How bitcoin works" video'' by '''John Baker'''
* ''Information bazaar'' by '''Jamileh Taaki'''
* ''Technical talk'' by '''Amir Taaki'''
* ''Mining talk'' by '''Vladimir Marchenko'''
* ''Legal talk'' by '''Jason Chia'''
* ''Economics talk'' by '''Gary Mulder'''
* Roundtable and discussions throughout the day


==== Day 1: Sunday ====
It's a weekend of talks, discussions and workshops for Bitcoin contributors, domain experts from a wide range of fields, enthusiasts, and everyone curious about Bitcoin. This is a great chance for everyone to meet new people and learn new things.


Talks and workshops, 14:00-18:00.
We will discuss the code, the infrastructure, the community, the legal and political implications; we will look into the mechanisms of currency systems, security concerns of running Bitcoin infrastructure, and run workshops that show you how to participate.


* ''Security talk'' by '''Vladimir Marchenko'''
As the Bitcoin community grew it has become harder to separate hype from fact, charlatans from helpful guides. We will attempt to bring clarity, and to critique the Bitcoin system and community with a sober attitude. Though it's also worth pointing out that any social experiment worth having requires a fair amount of anarchy, playfulness, and suspension of disbelief...
* ''Practical bitcoin workshop'' by '''TBC'''
* ''Developer workshop - use bitcoin on a simple PHP website'' by '''Amir Taaki'''


=== Domain Experts ===
The event will happen over a weekend:
* Saturday, 24 Sept 2011 from 14:00-18:00 we will have talks and discussions.
* Sunday, 25 Sept 2011 from 14:00-18:00 we will have workshops.


TODO: need to get these signed off first
Thanks to the London Hackspace the event itself is free to attend, however you need to register so we know how many people to expect. Make sure to register early; we will make an attempt at managing a waiting list should that become necessary. Attendance will be in the low dozens rather than hundreds, but (as you may know) the London Hackspace draws a passionate crowd of specialists and hackers of all kinds of interesting backgrounds.


We're getting contributions to this event by an incredible group of domain experts, and the list keeps growing. Here are a few of them:
Details and schedule:
* '''Vladimir Marchenko''' is running one of the largest private Bitcoin mining operations in the UK and probably the world, the founder of bitcoin.org.uk, and a distributor and service provider for Bitcoin mining rigs.
http://wiki.london.hackspace.org.uk/view/Project:Bitcoin/Bitcoin_Weekend_2011
* '''Amir Taaki''' ("genjix") is an open source software developer, co-founder of the Bitcoin Consultancy, the author of libbitcoin, has helped build a few Bitcoin exchanges and is running one himself (Britcoin, the UK's largest exchange.)
* '''Andrew Sissons''' is ...
* '''Catherine Flick''' is a researcher in technology ethics at Middlesex University. She started investigating the potential social and ethical impact of Bitcoin, and is currently evaluating a first survey.
* '''Gary Mulder''' has worked in IT for 20 years with a long-term interest in economics and has taken a recent interest in Bitcoin.
* '''Jamileh Taaki''' is...
* '''Jason Chia''' is a member of the Bitcoin Consultancy and a barrister in the UK specialising in corporate law.
* '''John Baker''' is ...
* '''John Barrdear''' is ...
* '''Tom Lorber''' is ...
* ...


=== Contact Us ===
Registration:
https://bitcoinweekend.eventbrite.com/


You can reach the org team in the #bitcoinweekend channel on Freenode.
A preview of the current schedule:


=== About the London Hackspace ===
Saturday:
 
* Keynote and a technical talk by Amir Taaki
The '''London Hackspace''' is a non-profit hackerspace in North-East London. It was founded in January 2009 and grew incredibly quickly; we now have more than 300 paying members and supporters, even more people visiting casually, a highly active IRC channel and mailing list, a decent amount of manufacturing kit (3D printers, laser cutter, lathes, milling machine etc), and host frequent workshops and talks that are open to the public.
* "How bitcoin works" video by John Baker
* Information bazaar by Jamileh Taaki
* Bitcoin community ethics talk by Dr. Catherine Flick
* Mining talk by Vladimir Marchenko
* Legal talk by Jason Chia
* Economics talk by Gary Mulder, with a few economists in attendance
* Roundtable and discussions throughout the day


* [http://london.hackspace.org.uk/ http://london.hackspace.org.uk/]
Sunday:
* [http://flickr.com/groups/londonhackspace/pool/ Flickr Pool]
* Security talk by Vladimir Marchenko
* [http://wiki.london.hackspace.org.uk/view/Laboratory_24/Getting_There Getting There]
* Practical Bitcoin workshop by TBC
* @londonhackspace
* Developer workshop - use Bitcoin on a simple PHP website by Amir Taaki


== Invitees ==
== Invitees ==
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The following groups are either directly involved with Bitcoin, or have members that might be interested:
The following groups are either directly involved with Bitcoin, or have members that might be interested:
* LHS list & twitter account
* <s>[https://groups.google.com/d/topic/london-hack-space/8pF9qOTgi3E/discussion LHS list] & [https://twitter.com/londonhackspace/status/113545631737462784 twitter account]</s>
* UK Hackspaces list
* <s>[https://groups.google.com/d/topic/uk-hackspaces/eOIAZyIv5Rc/discussion UK Hackspaces] list</s>
* bitcointalk, Bitcoin Forum, r/Bitcoin, #bitcoin, #bitcoin-dev, #bitcoinconsultancy
* <s>[https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=43831.0 bitcointalk]</s>, <s>[https://bitcoin.org.uk/forums/topic/288-bitcoin-weekend-at-the-london-hackspace-2425-sept-2011/ Bitcoin Forum]</s>, <s>[http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/kh43f/london_bitcoin_meetup_at_london_hackspace_sep/ r/Bitcoin]</s>, #bitcoin, #bitcoin-dev, #bitcoinconsultancy
* UK Pirate Party
* <s>UK Pirate Party</s> (via email)
* Open Knowledge Foundation
* <s>[http://lists.openrightsgroup.org/mailman/private/org-discuss/2011-September/018519.html Open Knowledge Foundation]</s>
* Dorkbot London
* Dorkbot London
* London 2600?
* London 2600?
* any local merchants accepting Bitcoin, cf. https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Trade
* any local merchants accepting Bitcoin, cf. https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Trade
* ...
* ...

Latest revision as of 13:18, 22 September 2011

Crew

  • find video person
  • get video from Catherine (she won't be able to Skype in)
  • find someone who can trade Bitcoins ("we should limit it to below 10 GBP or 2 BTC exchanges".) Potentially: lewis bowker who runs http://londonbitcoinexchange.com/
  • find merchants (e.g. layer1gfx' Club Mate trade)
  • find 2-5 people to help run the event: crowd control, Q&A aides, projector, misc org
  • would be nice to find people who can organise dinner for all contributors (15-20 people)

Workshop Details

Hello,

you receive this email because you registered for the Bitcoin workshops on 25 Sept (this coming Sunday) at London Hackspace. We're getting in touch to let you know how best to prepare.

  • Please bring your own laptop.
  • Install Bitcoin (See the official Getting Started page) and let the full block chain load. This may take up to a day, so make sure to start early. bitcoinwatch.com has a block counter to verify your progress.
  • Install PHP, a web server (e.g. Apache or lighttpd), and select a text editor of your choice. Make sure you know where your web root is, then test the setup with a basic PHP script.

We have Internet at the London Hackspace so in principle you could work on a remote web server, but we recommend you prepare a local development environment to be on the safe side.

See you this weekend, The Bitcoin Weekend team.

http://wiki.london.hackspace.org.uk/edit/Project:Bitcoin/Bitcoin_Weekend_2011


Invitation

Hello all,

as indicated a few days ago we're planning a Bitcoin event at the London Hackspace on 24/25 Sept 2011. We already have an amazing roaster of contributions lined up. Everyone's quite excited about this event; there have been very few Bitcoin contributor meetings so far, even outside the UK. We'll try to record the talks and will make the videos public.

We're now ready to announce details.


It's a weekend of talks, discussions and workshops for Bitcoin contributors, domain experts from a wide range of fields, enthusiasts, and everyone curious about Bitcoin. This is a great chance for everyone to meet new people and learn new things.

We will discuss the code, the infrastructure, the community, the legal and political implications; we will look into the mechanisms of currency systems, security concerns of running Bitcoin infrastructure, and run workshops that show you how to participate.

As the Bitcoin community grew it has become harder to separate hype from fact, charlatans from helpful guides. We will attempt to bring clarity, and to critique the Bitcoin system and community with a sober attitude. Though it's also worth pointing out that any social experiment worth having requires a fair amount of anarchy, playfulness, and suspension of disbelief...

The event will happen over a weekend:

  • Saturday, 24 Sept 2011 from 14:00-18:00 we will have talks and discussions.
  • Sunday, 25 Sept 2011 from 14:00-18:00 we will have workshops.

Thanks to the London Hackspace the event itself is free to attend, however you need to register so we know how many people to expect. Make sure to register early; we will make an attempt at managing a waiting list should that become necessary. Attendance will be in the low dozens rather than hundreds, but (as you may know) the London Hackspace draws a passionate crowd of specialists and hackers of all kinds of interesting backgrounds.

Details and schedule: http://wiki.london.hackspace.org.uk/view/Project:Bitcoin/Bitcoin_Weekend_2011

Registration: https://bitcoinweekend.eventbrite.com/

A preview of the current schedule:

Saturday:

  • Keynote and a technical talk by Amir Taaki
  • "How bitcoin works" video by John Baker
  • Information bazaar by Jamileh Taaki
  • Bitcoin community ethics talk by Dr. Catherine Flick
  • Mining talk by Vladimir Marchenko
  • Legal talk by Jason Chia
  • Economics talk by Gary Mulder, with a few economists in attendance
  • Roundtable and discussions throughout the day

Sunday:

  • Security talk by Vladimir Marchenko
  • Practical Bitcoin workshop by TBC
  • Developer workshop - use Bitcoin on a simple PHP website by Amir Taaki

Invitees

I also have a long list of domain experts, people and orgs I'll personally contact. Martind 21:41, 11 September 2011 (UTC)

The following groups are either directly involved with Bitcoin, or have members that might be interested:

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