Re: AntHillHacks - July 18-26

I'll second Benjamin's observations.

Also, absolutely love the call for participation poster and all. Definitely
worth following the link and taking a look at the call. Quite some art
there.

Awaiting for reports from the field.

--s

On Wed, Jul 15, 2015 at 7:25 PM, Benjamin Young <bigbluehat@hypothes.is>
wrote:

> If I could be in two places at once, one of me would be here. :)
>
> I encourage anyone interested in annotation or a future for the Web that
> doesn't rely on an "always on" Internet connection to attend, build stuff,
> and report back with copious notes.
>
> Thank you, Dinesh, for making this happen.
>
> On Wed, Jul 15, 2015 at 10:59 AM, TB Dinesh <dinesh@servelots.com> wrote:
>
>> A brief report on our earlier Annotation meet up in Istanbul is here:
>> http://wiki.janastu.org/Annotatist_Post
>>
>> AnthillHacks is starting this Saturday, and I would like to announce it
>> here.
>>
>> If you are in Bangalore area, you may want to physically come and do
>> some Annotations.
>> The event encourages living together and using the location as the
>> source of annotations.
>> The A in ANT is for Annotations. More on this at j.mp/myhill
>> This also means that I will be off the grid on the 22nd and will be
>> missing the meeting.
>>
>> ANTHILLHACKS
>> SUMMER MONSOON SCHOOL and HACK DAYS 2015
>> anthillhacks.net #anthillhacks, #anthax
>>
>> When: July 18-26 2015
>> Where: Devarayana Durga (DD) Hills, near Bangalore, India
>> fb: facebook.com/anthillhacks ; poster: j.mp/anthillposter
>>
>> Imagine groups of people from different domains living together for a
>> period of time... The location itself brings about an intermingling of
>> thought-systems that would not have interacted otherwise. This
>> inspires collaborations giving birth to eye-opening new productions
>> and curation of existing narratives and annotations of real world
>> objects at the location.
>>
>> AntHill is a metaphor for the world of structure and complexity that
>> exists just beneath the surface of everything around us.
>>
>> We look forward to considering some of the outcome in future
>> discussions here. For example,
>> we have been "porting" our annotation/sweet tools to be able to work
>> with out Internet and for a low-literate context where even asking for
>> a password entry means loosing "customers"
>>
>> -dinesh
>>
>>
>